Diets Don't Work So What Does? Does Anything?

In a recent study posted in the New England Journal of Medicine that covered dieters on three methods who successfully stuck to their diets for two years, the results were as follows:

“Average weight loss for those in the low-carb group was 10.3 pounds after two years. Those in the Mediterranean diet lost 10 pounds, and those on the low-fat regimen dropped 6.5.”

Now, it you go to that link, you will see that my question is not the point of the article. It is,however, what struck me about it. Two years and no one on any diet lost more than 10 pounds? So, what to do about the country’s obesity epidemic?

Isn’t this a tremendous failure by all of the institutions in our culture? Government, Education, Medicine.