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How does Dickerson propose to make these fat women thin?
Almost everyone who diets gains it all back within five years. Study after study shows this. And the studies that claim to show sustained weight loss are inevitably talking about one or two years later, not five.
We've known this for years. There is no information whatsoever on how to keep weight off for over five years, because researchers cannot find enough people who've done it. On the rare occasion when they set up a study to last for five years, they don't learn anything useful, except that most of their subjects end up right where they started. (http://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSN3036700020070402?pageNumber=1)
Scientists and doctors have no idea how to make fat people permanently thin. But boy, that doesn't stop people from insisting that they know what the problem is: pork chops and laziness! And the cure, obviously, is shame!
'Cause you know, no one's ever tried that before. If there's one thing you can't find anywhere in this culture, it's a fat person who's cripplingly ashamed of her body. And obviously, hating yourself is the best first step toward becoming healthier. We need to teach the poor, ignorant fatties these truths!
Because we care about their health
