The Diet Industry Creates Distrust Among Dieters

From BusinessWeek.com ---

Like psychic readings and astrology hotlines, the weight-loss industry sells hope to desperate people.

Americans spend $40 billion a year on weight-loss programs and products. They answer Jenny Craig’s enticement to “lose 20 pounds for just $20” (“plus the cost of food”) or Trimspa’s offer of a seven-day supply of chocolate Hoodia weight-loss supplements for $24.95.

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We buy books and magazines that offer the insightful revelation that we overeat because we’re bored. There are publications that promote weight loss via “food combining” or a diet that corresponds to blood type.

Most offensive are alleged fitness experts who issue such advice as: “Keep your nose out of carrots, bunny. They’re full of sugar. Pears, too—pure sugar.” Meanwhile, they recommend chemical-laden diet soft drinks and salt-choked low-calorie frozen meals. (Thanks, but I’ll take my chances with fresh fruits and vegetables.)

In the end, the advice and products offer virtually no long-term return on investment—measured, of course, in pounds permanently lost. According to a 2006 study reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, most people who participate in weight-loss programs “regain about one-third of the weight lost during the next year and are typically back to baseline in three to five years.”

But you didn’t need a scientific journal to tell you that. Even celebrities who can afford private chefs and trainers lapse back into comfortable habits and regain weight, so why would it be any different for the rest of us?

Allow me to enlighten you free of charge. Here’s why we overeat: Food tastes good, so we eat lots of it. Here’s why we gain weight: We take in more calories than we burn off. Here’s the only way to maintain weight loss: Eat less and exercise more for the rest of your life.

So stop trying to buy willpower. Go out and lose weight gratis if you like. Better yet, eat foods you enjoy, accept yourself the way you are, and stop feeding the diet industry’s false economy. Read on...

Comments: One of the battles that has been difficult for The Health & Wellness Institute, is selling a weight loss plan that is based on the truth of dieting - most notably that you can't have your cake and eat it too. HWI makes no claim that if you eat those unhealthy, high-calorie foods in moderation that you can lose weight and be healthy. The data suggests that most people cannot handle moderation - that's what got them in trouble in the first place. This is how the term diet vices came to be coined. A diet vice being that food or drink that is an unhealthy source of calories and/or high in calories and is consumed on a regular basis, thereby keeping the dieter from living at a healthy weight with a healthy body. We have seen over the years that moderation is a 'pipe dream' that sets the person up for failure. Even diets where "cheat days" are part of the plan and allow one day a week of 'eating anything you want' dooms even the most motivated dieters. The plan that works is one that helps you not only get motivated, but also build a lifestyle of health and fitness one healthy action at a time so that your results are permanent. Weight loss is a by-product of healthy actions and should not be the focus of your actions. Afterall, if and when you reach your goal weight, weight loss will no longer be your focus. So then what? Then most dieters go right back to eating and living the way they did since they're no longer "on a diet". And that's why a plan where you implement healthy actions while eliminating unhealthy ones - one step at a time - is the way to successfully lose weight and live healthy.

The Health & Wellness Institute, DC PC