Accepting that it just doesn't work

No blog post next week. I will be away.


In 2013, Sandra Aamodt, a neuroscientist, who does not appear pro-fat acceptance gave a Ted talk were she tells the audience that dieting doesn't work and can be harmful. She further points out that controlled eating leads to binging where mindful eating leads to less thoughts about food. In her  talk she pretty much says something like Health at Every Size is the right way to go as far as getting healthy. She points out a study where people who do four health habits: eating right, exercising, not smoking and drinking in moderation, lived about the same if they did all four habits. Only when they didn't do any of these habits did weight matter.


Matheson 2012


Dieting on the other hand did more harm than good.


The Fox Run inn in Vermont has taken over the Slim Chance Awards. Which annually gives awards to the worst of the worst diets.


This years winners were: The Special K Challenge, Non-Invasive Body Contouring, Cotton Ball Diet (which may be an urban legend), and the Tongue Patch.



At the same time the FTC has yet again cracked down on diet scams and has charged these diets with fraud: Sensa Products, L’Occitane, HCG Diet Direct and LeanSpa all have to pay consumers for misleading advertisements. Although they will admit no wrong doing. I much rather they admit it they lied than pay. As they take advantage of the desperate.
 
It's time to start accepting that Diets (those who make you eat less than your body needs) do not work in the long term and can also be dangerous. And it's best that we chuck the WW membership, the Jenny Craig food, the fad diets, and instead create actual healthy habits.
 
 

 


 

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Published on January 13, 2014 20:07
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