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.
what what was being done were was it just a case of counseling people to eat less and exercise more it was mostly developing the tools that would help people reduce energy intake and i think today that's still most of what we do so even surgery and drugs mostly but not only help people reduce energy intake we know that reducing energy intake works it's just really hard to do
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so even surgery and drugs mostly but not only help people reduce energy intake
we know that reducing energy intake works it's just really hard to do and telling people to do it and saying i'll try to do it is not all that effective