WHY DIETS DON’T WORK

O.K. You've heard it, read it, said it to yourself, yet you continue to do it, so I'll tell you again, just in case you didn't believe it: DIETS DON'T WORK! That's not to say they won't work for a few weeks, months, or even a year or two but eventually they don't work and the dieter feels frustrated and like a failure. So why do people continue to put themselves on diets? I think it's because they don't know what else to do. We live in a culture that is fixated on physical beauty for women and for men. A desirable body size in this culture isn't the body size many people inherited. If everyone in your family is big boned and leans toward the plump side, you might find that's your body type as well. And haven't we all heard about "six pack abs?" Admittedly men seem to be more visual than women but women have their biases as well. So people who find themselves not fitting into the "beautiful people" category are often not happy with themselves. And an odd thing happens to people when they don't like their body size. They often use food to make...

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