Title: Diets do not work: The thin evidence that losing weight makes you healthier.
Headings: The Weight of the Evidence
The Weight of the Evidence
It’s time to stop telling fat people to become thin.
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Content: Diets do not work: The thin evidence that losing weight makes you healthier. Medical Examiner
The Weight of the Evidence
It’s time to stop telling fat people to become thin. By Harriet Brown
March 24, 20153:00 AM
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
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If you’re one of the 45 million Americans who plan to go on a diet this year, I’ve got one word of advice for you: Don’t. You’ll likely lose weight in the short term, but your chance of keeping if off for five years or more is about the same as your chance of surviving metastatic lung cancer: 5 percent. And when you do gain back the weight, everyone will blame you. Including you. This isn’t breaking news;