Articles like this demonstrate that the medical profession, and probably our broader society, has lost the perspective necessary to beat obesity. It's not going to happen. Doctors constantly dance around the simple fact that people are too undisciplined, weak and stupid in a society jam-packed with food availability, and keep looking for clinical interventions that will pick away at the margins of the problem. You see articles written by otherwise respectable clinicians saying in effect: "If obesity was only about self-control, that would mean most of my patients are lazy retards" and thereby conclude that gut bacteria or genetic magic are somehow to blame. And that's among MDs, even bariatric specialists. Mainstream society just parrots unintelligible dumbed-down versions of what the doctors are spinning their wheels on, and now are working in earnest on social media (and starting in on the academy) to convince people that everything's OK, it's nobody's fault, you're still attractive, capable and desirable. It's absolutely stunning. Even with climate change people are starting to get their heads out and pay attention to a slow-moving, subtle danger. Obesity? Fucking forget it: too sensitive a topic for people's 21st century limp-wrist fee-fees, so with the exception of an ignored minority of shitlords and athletes we'll all keep lumbering forward to the slow death of our health insurance systems (private or public, doesn't matter here) and all the while pretending that the solution isn't as obvious as the sun hanging in the sky: Eat less, move more, you stupid fuck.