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Yes, but I think it points out the major problem with health articles in general is that culturally many people have reduced improved health in the general sense to the mantra of "losing weight". Pretty soon people have internalized it, and reading a sensational attempt at summarizing legitimate scientific studies becomes just a token discarded atop of a huge pile of ideas that people used to temporary assuage the regret of being a slave to the hedonistic garden of delights manufactured for them by the food and entertainment industries.

Okay, maybe I'm laying it on a bit thick, but seriously I think every single person in America can come up with 5 no-brainer ways to improve their health that would move the needle more than trying to eke out some mass effect of eating breakfast or not, it's just that people want the easy fix, and frankly there really is none. We just don't have the genetics or the instincts to cope with the sedentary lifestyles we've created for ourselves, and the only way out of it is get serious and develop healthy habits one bit at a time.

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