If you don’t know about Louise Adam’s Untrapped, then you are missing out on incredible activism and commentary. As part of her seriously impressive body of work, Louise has a podcast called All Fired Up and I got to be a guest to talk about the issues with weight loss research.
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https://untrapped.libsyn.com/5-10-weight-loss-is-good-for-your-health-other-bs-with-ragen-chastain
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I also thought it was a great take-down of the biggest problem with weight loss research. That problem isn't that the research itself is bad (although there is plenty of bad research), it's that the studies' authors, whose work is funded by weight loss companies looking for them to reach a very specific conclusion, know most people aren't going to actually read the research, so they deliver the desired conclusion whether the data supports it or not. So you'll get something like, "In conclusion, our program in tandem with exercise and a balanced diet produces two to three pounds of sustainable weight loss per month." But then you go back and read what actually happened, and half the participants dropped out because the program wasn't working, and then they threw out forty percent of the data they collected as "outliers," and then the participants they did keep had already started to regain the weight when they stopped measuring. It's not so much the data that's deceptive as the delivery.