Very Interesting article on dieting

[Paul]

This is a good article and worth a read. A new study confirms what many fat people have been claiming for years: DIETING MAKES YOU FATTER! Now studies are confirm this truth and goes one step further to claim that it may be better to never diet at all. GEE, didn't we already know this through personal experience. The authors of the study is recomending that Medicare in the US not fund weight loss programs for the treatment of obesity. I wonder if weight loss surgery is one of the treatments they are recommending that Medicare no longer fund? Here is a quote from the article.

Diet or not

"What happens to people on diets in the long run?" Mann asked. "Would they have been better off not to go on a diet at all? We decided to dig up and analyze every study that followed people on diets for two to five years. We concluded most of them would have been better off not going on the diet at all. Their weight would be pretty much the same, and their bodies would not suffer the wear and tear from losing weight and gaining it all back."

Mann addresses the serious issue of how Medicare in the United States is considering defining obesity as an illness, which would open the door to funding treatments for obesity.

"We are recommending that Medicare should not fund weight-loss programs as a treatment for obesity," Mann said. "The benefits of dieting are too small and the potential harm is too large for dieting to be recommended as a safe, effective treatment for obesity."

Better, she says, is the standard, un-faddish regimen of moderate food intake and regular exercise.

"Eating in moderation is a good idea for everybody, and so is exercise," Mann said. "This is not what we looked at in this study. Exercise may well be the key factor leading to sustained weight loss. Studies consistently find that people who reported the most exercise also had the most weight loss."

Here is a link to the full article:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/fats/dieting.html

What do you think?

Paul.