▲ 463 ▼ New research shows weight loss is possible without GLP-1 (www.news-medical.net) submitted 4 months ago by golden@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 192 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago (2 children) Horseshit. I literally know multiple people who have lost weight and kept it off. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 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 2 child comments replies: [–] 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 2 child comments replies: [–] 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
[–] 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 2 child comments replies: [–] 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
[–] 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 2 child comments replies: [–] 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
[–] 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