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Much research is underway on the links between diet and obesity. So too are long-running disputes among nutritionists on core questions about the relationship. This editorial reviews the state-of-play on four issues: what makes people fat, how to lose weight, how much do we eat, and what policies to adopt towards obesity. The practical consequence is that, at present, frontline health professionals will not find in nutrition science agreed, actionable solutions to assist overweight patients. But research and debate continues actively.

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Winkler, Jack. "Obscurity on Obesity." BMC Medicine 2014, 12:114 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-12-114

Nothing startling but an unnecessary sideswipe in passing at 5:2 tho' it may be more at the way it's promoted by the authors' publishers etc. than criticism of IF per se:

Nowadays, promotions even promise that dieters need never go hungry, or that they can eat whatever they like –- at least for five days, so long as they fast for the other two.

tbh, iirc, someone said something like that here recently - about it being a disservice that some people might believe that they can eat whatever they like on 5 days. Tho' I accept the argument that this is true - it doesn't necessarily follow it's in the volume that hunger/hormones/the addictive desire to over-eat might prefer.

It's an introductory article of what's to come:

"Hence, it is appropriate that BMC Medicine should devote a special collection of articles to the latest obesity research. But it is also appropriate to set new findings in the context of on-going controversies. That is the purpose of this introduction.
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