Thread by @Mangan150

Exercise is important for health, and everyone should exercise.

But if you're trying to lose weight, food is going to be 90% of the battle.

"Eat less, move more" is ineffective nonsense for weight loss.

And if it is so ineffective, why do we hear it so much?

We hear that partly because it's in the vested interest of certain groups to get that message out.

Which groups?

Food and beverage companies, the fitness industry, and mainstream medicine.

Food and beverage companies - Big Food - want us to believe that eating less and moving more will help weight loss because it absolves them of all blame.

They've made a lot of effort to create addictive, highly profitable junk food that makes people fat and they want to continue

Big Food wants the gravy train to keep rolling. If it turned out that their industrial food engineering and manufacturing helped make everyone fat, there would be consequences - and less profit.

Big Food has spent millions in advertising to tell people that eating a "balanced diet" (which includes their products) and exercise are how to lose weight.

The fitness industry - gyms, magazines and websites, clothing, trainers - also want you to believe that exercise, not food, is the key to weight loss.

Most people use their products and services to lose weight.

Finally, mainstream medicine has little to offer for weight loss. It has stood by idly while the country has become fat and diabetic.

By promoting "eat less, move more", mainstream medicine can readily shift the blame to *you*.

It's your fault you got fat (they say) because we've been telling you how to do it but you're too lazy to act on it.