Why We Can't Stop Obesity

A typical dialogue on diet goes something like this:

Expert:  We don't have any known way to make obese people thin except gastric bypass surgery, which has a 2% mortality rate by itself.

Thin person:  But I am very thin!

That's about 50% of the conversation in the comments to the Paul Campos interview. It's about as useful as the following exchange:

Expert:  We don't have any known way to make short people tall, except for extreme surgeries and hormone injections.  Click here for full article.