Summary of why diets make us fat: by sandra aamodt | includes analysis

✍ Scribed by Sandra Aamodt

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"IF DIETS WORKED, WE'D ALL BE THIN BY NOW. INSTEAD, WE HAVE ENLISTED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE INTO A WAR WE CAN'T WIN."

What's the secret to losing weight? If you're like most of us, you've tried cutting calories, sipping weird smoothies, avoiding fats, and swapping out sugar for Splenda. The real secret is that all of those things are likely to make you weigh more in a few years, not less.

In fact, a good predictor of who will gain weight is who says they plan to lose some. Last year, 108 million Americans went on diets, to the applause of doctors, family, and friends. But long-term studies of dieters consistently find that they're more likely to end up gaining weight in the next two to fifteen years than people who don't diet.
Neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt spent three decades in her own punishing cycle of starving and regaining before turning her scientific eye to the research on weight and health. What she found defies the...