There’s no debate that diet and exercise aren’t more effective for people with obesity than antiobesity medications, contends Yoni Freedhoff, MD.
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa; Medical Director, Bariatric Medical Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaServe as a director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant, or trustee for: Bariatric Medical Institute; Constant Health Received research grant from: Novo Nordisk They’re literally not better. Idealistically, sure, but literally not. And there’s really no debate.
, the average sustained weight lost was more than double that of Look AHEAD’s, at 10.2%. Meanwhile the recently releasedNow maybe you want to cling to the notion that if you just try hard enough, your diet and exercise regime can beat our new meds.
, one of the most common refrains was something along the lines of yes, lifestyle modification is the best choice for dealing with obesity but it’s good that there will be medication options for those where that’s insufficient.The only reason that the world isn’t comfortable with the eminently provable truth that diet and exercise are inferior to obesity medications for weight management is weight bias. The message is that people simply aren’t trying hard enough.
Let it also be said that improvements to diet and exercise are worth striving for at any weight, though one should not lose sight of the fact that perpetual, dramatic, intentional, behavior change in the name of health requires vast amounts of wide-ranging privilege to enact — amounts far beyond the average person’s abilities or physiologies (as demonstrated with obesity by
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