/sci/ - Science & Math

I'm risking ridicule for trusting science from cracked, but:

>Let's get this straight: The number of people who go from fat to thin, and stay there, statistically rounds down to zero.

>Every study says so. No study says otherwise. None.

>Oh, you can lose a ton of weight. You'll gain it back. Here's one study running the numbers. Here's a much larger analysis of every long term weight loss study they could find. They all find the exact same thing: you can lose and keep off some minor amount, 10 or 15 pounds, for the rest of your life -- it's hard, but can be done. Rarer cases may keep off a little more. But no one goes from actually fat to actually thin, and stays thin permanently.

>And when I say "no one", I mean those cases are so obscenely rare they don't even appear on the chart. They can't even find enough such people to include in the studies. It's like trying to study people who have survived falling out of planes. Being fat is effectively incurable, every study shows it, and no one will admit it.

>http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/fat-officially-incurable-according-to-science/

Is that true? If so, holy fuck that's depressing.