Obesity Fueled by Dieting

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The diet industry targets the overweight population with promises of becoming slimmer. They gauge success by pounds and inches. The average weigh loss lasts for a short while, and then it creeps back up with a vengeance.

Diets Linked to Weight Gain

The data is in and has been for quite awhile. It is estimated that 80% or more of dieters regain the weigh back. Many times there is a rebound effect that makes gaining easier and packs on even more weight than before the diet.

The new research points to the fact that this new weight gain isn’t just a shortage of will power. According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, hunger-related hormones disrupted by dieting and weight loss can remain altered for at least a year, fueling a higher than normal appetite.

“Maintaining weight loss may be more difficult than losing weight,” says lead researcher Joseph Proietto, Ph.D., a professor of medicine at inVictoria, Australia. “This may be due to biological changes rather than a voluntary return to old habits.”

Scientists have known for years that hormones found in the gut, pancreas, and fatty tissue strongly influence body weight and processes such as hunger and calorie burning. This is also true: a drop in body fat percentage, for instance, causes a decrease in the levels of certain hormones (such as leptin, which signals to your brain when you’re full) and an increase in others (such as ghrelin, which stimulates hunger).

What wasn’t well known, until now, was whether these changes in hormone levels persist after an individual loses weight.

Weight control is not Due to Lack of Willpower

The challenge is in establishing the right foundation. The efficiency of the main stream diets for long term weight loss has emerged as a failure. There are many reasons for this: one is they don’t address the cause, and second they are a modified version of the American diet referred to as the (SAD) diet.

“You can initially 5 to 10 percent of your weight on any number of diets, but then the weight comes back,” said Traci Mann, UCLA associate professor of psychology and lead author of the study. “We found that the majority of people regained all the weight, plus more.

Sustained weight loss was found only in a small minority of participants, while complete weight regain was found in the majority. Diets do not lead to sustained weight loss or health benefits for the majority of people.

One of the problems is things change hormonally, metabolically after you gain weight so even after you take it off you may not go back to your ideal weight. Gherlin is the hormone than tells us to eat. Leptin is  the hormone that lets us know when to stop eating. When these are working like they should no amount of will power will work.

Ideal Weight

Reaching your ideal weight is a goal that can be achieved with a lifestyle change based on your personal make-up. Everyone responds to different foods in their own unique way depending on their body’s chemistry.

The American way to treat obesity is with medications, operations, and crash diets. The real way to treat weight control is eating for your metabolic type. This will correct hormone imbalances to safety bring you to your ideal weight.

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