The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
I believe that if you become healthier, you will lose weight, so that you should focus on being healthier, and I will outline what I think that means from a dietary and lifestyle and exercise perspective in this podcast, but I do not think the goal of any endeavor for humans should be to lose weight.
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I do believe there are healthy ways for humans to lose weight. These often center on focusing on dietary quality, and I believe if you do that, rather than focusing on restricting calories without attention to dietary quality, you will lose weight unintentionally, as has been demonstrated in the past with diets that include meat and fruit, uh, specifically paleo diets, which have vegetables, but we'll talk about those uh, bit later on in the podcast.