Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 3 years ago

moderators

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Horseshit. I literally know multiple people who have lost weight and kept it off.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 4 child comments

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

If you know several people who met the medical definition of obese and have perminantly left that category then you know several outliers, which is entirely possible.

But that is just not representative. Over 99% of obese people do not lose weight. Those few outliers are heavily visible and celebrated so it feels like there must be more.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 point 4 months ago

Yeah, I'm not trusting an article that makes a lot of claims that are contrary to my lived experience and everything else I've ever read but cites nothing.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

If 99% of people aren't a thing, then 1% of people are. That's like 80 million people.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent

hideshow 1 child comment

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 point 4 months ago

Yeah, I'm not trusting an article that makes a lot of claims that are contrary to my lived experience and everything else I've ever read but cites nothing.

permalink

fedilink

source

parent