"Obesity may be irreversible": Dramatic headline, but (1) based on one, early study, and (2) prompts giving up behavior

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9635595/Obesity-may-be-irreversible.html

Obesity may be irreversible

Obese people may never be able to shift their extra pounds no matter how much they diet and exercise because their body has been reprogrammed to be overweight, a new study suggests.

"Scientists have discovered that being obese for some time "flips a switch" that resets normal body weight to be "irreversibly" higher casting doubt over how successful crash exercise and diet courses.

Children are most at risk because if their obesity is not tackled, it may condemn them to a life of being morbidly overweight."