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At a population level? Affordable healthy food, promoting an active lifestyle, and reduced stress...this stuff isn't a mystery. Weight gain in the average person isn't due to 'overeating' (ED or otherwise) it is due to sedentary lifestyle and the easy accessibility of nutrient poor, calorie dense, cheap food.
Some individuals find success with long term weight loss but there is no known approach that can be applied to a population that yields reliable results.
We can imagine many things that theoretically work but either compliance is low at the study recruit level (they don't work) or they are no practical in our current sociopolitical climate (they don't work).
The reality is we don't know what to do, we have ideas but we can't do experimental societal transformations to do the studies.
To my knowledge there is no good scientific evidence of what you propose, if you have it then by all means please share it.
Calorie deficit. Burn more calories by avoiding sedentary lifestyles and reduce excess calorie intake (soda, high fat foods, calorie dense meals)