Why Diets So Frequently Fail

If a person consumes more calories than he or she uses, they gain weight. If this continues over time, they become obese. All they should need to do, then, is reverse the whole process by restricting calories and/or expending more of them until a healthy body weight is restored. If it were so simple, 5.5 million Canadians would not be obese. And the diet book industry would be bankrupt. Unfortunately, eating too much does more than add pounds.

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Filed under: Nutrition / Diet on March 13th, 2009