Diets Don’t Work!
If they did, most of America would not be overweight.
Why don’t they work?
Diets only temporarily interrupt a bad lifestyle. When you come off the diet, all the old results will be back with a vengeance. (Find someone to prove to me I’m off the mark on that one.) Many factors are at work to make America overweight, and dieting does not address these problems:
The food supply has changed, and no one has noticed how it’s affected our metabolisms. Humans have never had to live on the sheer quantity of manufactured, refined food we consume now.
This new food is addictive, in its refined state. The body adapts to it, and requires more of it. As an example of this principle, think of cocaine. The leaves of the coca plant have been used by South American Indians for centuries without any addiction, yet the refined version (cocaine) is highly addictive. White flour and refined sugar are addictive. Other societies, such as the French, have not become as heavily reliant on food manufactured from white flour and sugar, so they have not had the same addiction problem.
Our metabolisms have changed because of this addiction. One hundred years ago, people on the poor side of town used to look skinny instead of fat. Now, they eat cheap, refined food, causing obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and a host of other aliments.
Most refined food can be eaten much faster than food that looks like it was grown on this planet. It requires very little chewing. We can outpace the body’s capacity to digest it properly. We can swallow more calories than we need, because the body does not have time to register how much we’ve eaten. We eat until we’re full, rather than until we’ve had enough.
Most diets do not address these problems. Other countries do not have less obesity because they have more calorie-counting clubs or low-fat foods. They have a different attitude about what food is and what eating is all about. They eat more food that looks like it came from this planet instead of from a factory. They take their time to eat. They enjoy their meals. They’re healthier.
If you go on a diet, changing your eating pattern, it will have a positive effect. It doesn’t matter if it’s a low-fat, low-carb, macrobiotic, cabbage soup, or whatever diet. If you do something different, you’ll get a different effect.
Manufacturers want to sell you low-sugar or low-fat foods, fat burner pills, and all sorts of other products. None of them get you back to your original design to be fit and trim.
Many people have no need to diet. They do not live an austere lifestyle. They simply avoid the unhealthy habits of the obese. They are not addicted to white flour and sugar. They realize that their bodies were designed to work best with some exercise, and they fit it in to their lives. They do not torture themselves with missed deserts or eat food that tastes like cardboard.
Anyone can learn to do that!
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