Hapless Bills Fan Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Some good points here that defining "successful diet" as "lost 5% of original body weight for a year" would not "cut the mustard" for other health issues - imagine a paper about successful smoking cessation program "our smokers reduced their cigarette consumption by 10% for a year, this shows the promise of this technique if we can only improve it", erm, No. And yet, people do lose weight, and maintain the loss for years. Maybe this makes me a "confirmation bias" seeker, but I do find these "weight loss is impossible" articles equally and oppositely depressing to the "you too can lose weight if you only had willpower and self-control" crowd. https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-40989-001.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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