Brillyant comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong
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Because it is hard to actually execute diets. You're conflating two issues now.
There are exceptions, but people will lose weight very predictably if food intake and exercise is 100% controlled.
Dieting "theory" is all about helping people stick to the plans that engage the causal mechanisms that science already has informed us will work.