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by BJBBB 1800 days ago
"We don't understand how to prevent obesity."

Please reference below:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25196414/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606061/

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesi...

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/obesity-resear...

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Read your first link. Literally, from the abstract:

“The evidence base is limited in quantity and quality and insufficient to provide clear guidance“ [1].

The entire paper is about the “major evidence gaps.”

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25196414/

Which is why I included it first and did not bury it and did not ignore it on my search. But I will give you brownie and taco points for actually reading the references

I have read many scientific, peer-reviewed papers on this subject. There is too much 'insufficient' data and too much correlation/causation issues. I am a hardware engineer, so am driven, delimited, and succeed or fail on the veracity of my data. I can generally depend on good data provided by suppliers and its efficacy because it is based on Physics. I have read may MS and PhD papers in botany and cellular biology, and a few CDC/NIH/FDA papers on the OT. I will conjecture that there are too many life scientists on these research teams and not enough physical scientists and engineers.