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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (14602)3/16/2010 3:44:05 PM
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I was being generous to the other side of the argument. It might be more like 100 to one than 30 to 1, at least if you consider only positive durable changes (short term changes are much easier but not very significant to such issues as obesity, in fact yo-yo dieting may be worse than just staying fat).

If the idea for and motivation behind the change comes from the individual who wants to change, you still get more people failing than succeeding in this effort, but at least the number would be closer. If your just trying to change everyone who's severely overweight, the percentage that change in a durable positive way will be small.

Even with most of the effort coming from the individuals who want to change look at all the resources that are spent on diet food, diet drugs, consultants with nutritionists, gym memberships, etc.; then look at the fact that obesity kept going up (it may have finally plateaued but there is no evidence that its going down).
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