Dieting Nonsense

Caught this from the AP, today: Dieting Can Weaken Immunity

Short form: Dieting is very, very bad for you, but do it anyway.

How difficult is this for "obesity" researchers to understand? If a treatment fails upwards of 95% of the time and the treatment has been shown to be dangerous and harmful all on its own, then you stop advocating that treatment. You don't even need to get to the point of questioning whether being fat is so bad in the first place. Dieting is harmful and ineffective. Why is it still being pushed? You'd never see this elsewhere in medicine. Especially not over a disease as dubious as fatness.

ARGH!