Dieting results in long term changes to hormones and muscle fibers.

[sofa king]

264. Someone comes in dying of cold symptoms; what do you do?

Do you determine if the patient's symptoms are caused by viruses or bacteria while the patient is dying?

Or do you first stabilize the patient using the exact same procedure, regardless of the cause?

We don't have a cure for alcoholism, for heroin addiction, for gambling addiction, or for overeating. We do not fully understand the mechanisms by which those symptoms emerge. But we have procedures to "stabilize the patient," and with the exception of the one factor which I pointed out to kick this whole thing off, the procedures are similar across the entire range of disorders.

Because we don't know how to cure addiction. Maybe you're arguing that the treatments should be different according to the cause, but right now they are not, and as a result, all treatment options bear a close resemblance to each other.

With the exception of overeating, because a person cannot be totally weaned from taking in sustenance. So there's your chance to prove to me that overeating is somehow totally different: by identifying a treatment plan that works, which differs significantly from other disorders that are also addictions except for the semantics. Nobody has found it yet.