![]() Even worse, dieters tend to regain more weight than they initially lost (Bombak 2014 Tribole & Resch 2012). More than 90% of diets result in weight regain (Bombak 2014 Ikeda et al. Studies have demonstrated that sustained weight loss is an extremely rare outcome of dieting. Unfortunately, dieting fails on both counts. Diets Don’t Deliverĭieting (eating less and moving more) has two goals: losing weight and improving health. One such tactic is Health at Every Size®, a weight-neutral outlook that is showing promising results (Bacon & Aphramor 2011 Penney & Kirk 2015). The weight-focused paradigm’s failure to produce lasting results underscores the need to try new approaches to chronic-disease management. ![]() ![]() weight loss industry has grown to $58.6 billion annually, we haven’t seen significant improvements in rates of chronic disease (Bacon & Aphramor 2011). Causality, however, is not so clear (Bombak 2014).įor decades, efforts to fight chronic disease have focused primarily on obesity-encouraging dieting as the best way to lose weight. ![]() The correlation between obesity and chronic disease is well established (Bacon & Aphramor 2011 Bombak 2014 Penney & Kirk 2015). ![]()
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