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I think it'd be more accurate to say that informing people that they should change their behavior doesn't work. A person changing their behavior can escape obes

by yakz 3mo ago

I think it'd be more accurate to say that informing people that they should change their behavior doesn't work. A person changing their behavior can escape obesity. The reality is that most people won't be able to change their behavior without some other kind of assistance.

topgrain2 3mo ago
Even with extensive assistance (which is way too expensive to widely deploy) outcomes are weak. Last I checked, researchers in the specific area of high-touch weight interventions were excited that they finally had a tool that might more-than-barely work… in glp-1 agonists.
- yakz 3mo ago
  I didn’t mean to suggest that GLP-1s don’t count as assistance. Informing people that they can avoid pregnancy and STDs if they’d just stop fucking each other doesn’t work at scale either.