The problem is that there is no behavioral solution that ever has been empirically proven to work across a broad population, over a long term.
And while "just eat less" has an intuitive appeal as a treatment strategy, alas, it's been shown again and again to be a dead end in practice, much as "just don't spend money" or "just do less heroin" don't seem be effective treatments for poverty or addiction. It is sometimes difficult to get over the bias that what seems intuitively effective in theory is not actually so in practice. But, as we're evidence-driven people, we need to look elsewhere.
Surgical interventions, and GLP-1 receptor antagonists work, but they are expensive and there is limited access to them at present.
So, as of today while I agree that it is a condition to be treated, there are no effective treatment options for a population, which is the scope of what this article is talking about. Thus the situation we're in.
And while "just eat less" has an intuitive appeal as a treatment strategy, alas, it's been shown again and again to be a dead end in practice, much as "just don't spend money" or "just do less heroin" don't seem be effective treatments for poverty or addiction. It is sometimes difficult to get over the bias that what seems intuitively effective in theory is not actually so in practice. But, as we're evidence-driven people, we need to look elsewhere.
Surgical interventions, and GLP-1 receptor antagonists work, but they are expensive and there is limited access to them at present.
So, as of today while I agree that it is a condition to be treated, there are no effective treatment options for a population, which is the scope of what this article is talking about. Thus the situation we're in.