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Re:Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system... by rumanator on Saturday July 04, 2020 @06:50PM (#23735440)
> This is repeated a lot but if you actually look at the research you find that physical exercise has very little effect(except maybe as a preventative).

This baseless assertion is simply outright wrong, and utterly absurd on so many levels.

* https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/abs/10.7326/0003-4819-133-2-...

* https://www.nature.com/articles/0800499

Please don't spread misinformation.

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Re:Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system... by JamesBarney on Saturday July 04, 2020 @08:12PM (#23735769)
Sorry there was some confusion. By long term I meant 3-10 year follow ups.

Weight loss from diet/exercise will definitely persist for a year or even a couple.

Also specifically about exercise your study says "[Weight] did not change in the exercise without weight loss [group]"

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Re:Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system... by rumanator on Sunday July 05, 2020 @04:08AM (#23737273)
> Sorry there was some confusion. By long term I meant 3-10 year follow ups.

That only happens if the patient relapses into his previous unhealthy lifestyle.

You can't simply follow a poor high calory diet and a sedentary lifestyle and still expect zero consequences from your actions. If your problem is behavioral then you fix it by fixing the problems in your behavior.

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