How come starvation isn’t used as a treatment for obesity, even though without food the body will consume fat reserves?

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How come starvation isn’t used as a treatment for obesity, even though without food the body will consume fat reserves?

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It is used but they call it fasting. There are subs dedicated to it: r/fasting and r/intermittentfasting

It’s very effective and mostly perfectly safe unless you have a pre-existing condition that makes it problematic.

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