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Diets don't work - they can't!Diet myth # 7: Dieting reduces obesity - really?Diets don't work. And obesity experts have been writing that for years in psychological and medical journals. Only the average man in the street doesn't get to read those! Hmmmm.... now let's see. The United States is the diet continent of the world. In fact a 2006 CBS new report claimed that Americans spent $35 Billion (you saw right, that's a 'B' not a 'm') dollars on weight loss programs and weight loss systems. This figure does not include weight loss surgery. 
So how much slimmer are Americans getting? Um... did I hear you thinking: "they aren't." Well my point exactly. And fortunately I'm backed up on this by some pretty knowledgable people although it doesn't take a rocket scientist to notice that Americans and other Westernized nations aren't getting slimmer.
What obesity researchers sayDr J. Manson... associate professor of Medicine at Harvard medical school, answers this question this way: “The growing girth of Americans is replete with paradox. This is a nation obsessed with thinness.Increasing body weights in the United States, ironically, have paralleled the increasing preoccupation with weight and dieting, as well as the increasing frequency of weight loss methods. As many as 40 percent of women and 24 percent of men are trying to lose weight at any given time. What’s wrong with this picture? Whatever we’re doing, it’s clearly not working. Our nation is only getting fatter. The more we seem to ‘diet’ the more weight we seem to gain.” Ahem....I hate to say "I told you!"
Need I say more about the fact that it's not just that diets don't work - it's also that they cause eating problems and eating disorders ? Dr. Kelly Brownell... Professor at Rutgers University who heads up the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity and the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders says : "If cure from obesity is defined as reduction to ideal weight and maintenance of that weight for 5 years, a person is more likely to recover from many forms of cancer."
If ever we wanted to know how spectacularly diets don't work - I couldn't have summed it up better! Garner and Wooley... (University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine and USA Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, Pennsylvania) wrote: the failure of fat people to achieve a goal they seem to want… must now be admitted for what it is: A big danger of dieting is that they keep us trapped by blaming people for failing instead of diets and weight loss surgery for failing people when clearly diets don't work. So you want something that DOES work? Check out our non diet Mind over Fatter products. Hallelujah ! Now can we once and for all just placing the blame where it belongs instead of at the feet of gullible dieters. Maybe, then we'll be able to ditch diets, stop all the unkind discrimination against fat people and get on with living vibrantly and fully. This is NOT a failure of those people but rather of the
methods of treatment that are used.
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