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You can't outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds (www.npr.org)

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is more complex than that. You cannot help people to lose weight by putting them on "cold turkey" - by withholding food from them forcibly. It will just make the patient quit the treatment.

So, to sum it up: Is it "calories in = calories out"? Yes. Is it a cruel way to see things? Also yes.

Does it help patients to effectively lose weight? Surprisingly, no; despite it being a dead simple rule.

What actually does help the people lose weight is to build alternative routines; i.e. those that make the people adapt healthy behavior that displaces unhealthy behavior. Teaching how to eat well does more than teaching to not eat high-calory food. Teaching how to prepare a salad that actually tastes well does more than withholding chocolate.