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Diet and exercise alone are no cure for obesity, doctors say
A group of respected physicians has stepped forward to challenge the common assertion that obesity can be easily fixed by diet and exercise. For most of the nation's 79 million adults and 13 million kids who are obese, the "eat less, move more" treatment, as currently practiced, is a prescription for failure, these doctors say. In a commentary published Thursday in the journal Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, four weight-loss specialists set out to correct what they view...
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This is just going to give people yet another excuse to stay fat and not even try... "The doctors said I had as much hope as winning the lottery as I do in becoming skinny" or "It's in my (plus sized) jeans!"
If you've been raised to eat massive amounts of junk and sit in front of the television all day, then of course eating palm sized portions of healthy food and having an active lifestyle is going to be foreign and a struggle to maintain. But people do need to try, and keep on trying, and try even harder.