Posted on 04/09/2007 9:46:18 PM PDT by carlo3b
Diets damage health, shows biggest ever studyBy FIONA MacRAE - Last updated at 00:24am on 10th April 2007
Most people pile the pounds straight back on after dieting
The world's largest study of weight loss has shown that diets do not work for the vast majority of slimmers and may even put lives at risk.
More than two-thirds pile the pounds straight back on, raising the danger of heart attack, stroke and diabetes.
Indeed most dieters end up heavier than they did to start with, the researchers found.They warn this type of yo-yo behaviour is linked to a host of health problems. And they say the strain that repeated weight loss and gain places on the body means most people would have been better off not dieting at all.
The findings follow other research that shows the UK is in the grip of a dieting frenzy, with one in four Britons at any one time trying to lose weight.
The average woman is estimated to lose and gain 251/2 stone during her lifetime - putting on 151/2 stone for the ten stone she loses through dieting. Last night, the U.S. scientists behind the latest research - the most thorough and comprehensive analysis of its kind - said that dieting simply does not work.
The University of California researchers analysed the results of more than 30 studies involving thousands of slimmers.
Although the overview did not name specific weight loss plans, popular diets in recent years include the low carbohydrate, high protein Atkins diet and the GI diet, which is rich in slow-burning wholegrain carbohydrates.
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Researcher Dr Traci Mann said: "You can initially lost 5 to 10 per cent of your weight on any number of diets.
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A short short walk is better than nothing however raising your heart rate for moderate intervals during a vigorous exercise is better.
We have gal at work that litreally cant get out of her own way.
Its painful to me to look at.
She walks at 1/4 a foot a minute but is first in line for cake or pie
Stop shoveling down sugar Honey!
Sometimes it’s not necessarily just what you are eating, but the size of the portions (especially at restaurants...no shame in asking for a box for the rest of the dinner :-| ), and eating closer to when you turn in for the night. If I slow down when I eat, I find I eat less by the end of the meal.
And some moderate exercise is good.
But other than getting physical education back into school curriculum more (been cut in a lot of schools) and some basic food health taught to young students, that’s about as far as I want government involved...wish people would avail themselves of a doctor’s checkup more often as preventative care.
It is not diets that are to blame.
It is simply that people are weak. They don't understand that changing one's diet, means changing their life permanently, not just until the pounds come off.
As I see my midsection starting to expand a little, I have a choice to make. I can make adjustments to my life to keep the pounds off, or I can become a victim to a lack of will.
Diets work, all of them. So does exercise. People are weak and lazy. I blame them.
1. Eat 3 small meals per day
2. Eat a couple of light snacks if needed
3. NO Sugar
4. No alcohol or smoking
5. Exercise 3-5 times per week
6. Reduce Stress
7. Get plenty of good quality sleep
Of course this will never fly for the quickfix crowd of today and the millons of people who have "thyroid" problems.
tRUE
Perhaps I can buy some carbon credits from Algore and breathe every other day. : /
: )
*shrug* I’m down to 280...
Most restaurant meals can be cut in half at the beginning of the meal, with one portion eaten and the other saved for the next day’s lunch.
Bingo. That's the problem. If you go off your "diet" and back into the type of eating that made you fat in the first place, you will get fat agin. It's pretty simple, IMO!
I have a problem with the no alcohol thing.
Agree.
I used the Adkins diet (modified with regard to fats and eggs) at the advice of my physician and it got me down from 240 to 210, and worked where other diets didn’t. Then, started a *lot* more exercise with that baggage off, brought my carbs back up. Now at 215, and eat a fair amount of carbs, but watching my food portions now more than anything else.
I have no major complaints with using the diet to get the initial weight off, and my doctor had recommended me using the Adkins diet.
If it were that simple one would go back to their original weight.
It isn’t. People usually gain much more than they lose.
NOPE....people need SOME treats during a week....the key is saving your treats to be actual “TREATS.” Not “treating” yourself with them everyday, but having them occasionally (in small amounts) on a weekend, for instance. People find it VERY difficult to go without ANY sugar or ANY alcohol (if they’ve been a wine/beer imbiber) before.
People usually don't stop their diet until they reach somewhere close to their "original weight" but rather than continuing to maintain where they are, they stop their diet, get back into eating the crap that made them fat, gain the weight back and then some.
The key is that it has to be a permanent lifestyle change, not a temporary change that one endures until you reach a goal.
I think Dr Atkins died as the result of a fall and I don’t think he was fat. On the news today a study said the Atkins diet had the best long term results not only in weight loss but general health.
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