Diet Coke Nutrition Facts Will Fad Diets Ever Go Away.
Even if you've never tried a fad diet yourself, I'm pretty sure you know someone who has. These diets were popular long before the Internet made it easy for people to pass them around. In fact, I can remember eating boiled eggs and bacon, the main foods on a fad diet popular at the time, way back when I was in high school - and that was a very long time ago.
Did it work? Yes, I lost the 5 pounds I wanted to lose. And then I gained it back again, and more.
In fact, it now seems clear that anyone who goes on a fad die will be adding fat in the long run, not losing it. And the fat they gain after the fad diet is over may be even harder to get rid of than "normal" fat, and may somehow encourage the body to keep gaining weight years afterwards. How many people do you know who keep going on the latest diet, yet they seem to keep getting bigger instead of smaller? Now, scientists may know why.
A recent study done by Swedish researchers may have discovered why so many people who lose weight on fad diets regain the weight, plus a bit extra - and why they can never seem to get rid of the extra pounds. The scientists studied the effects of binge eating. Binging on high-calorie food is extremely common after someone falls off a very-low-calorie diet.
The study, published in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism, asked volunteers to overeat for a few weeks on high-calorie fast food, and the participants quickly gained an average of about 14 pounds. After the weight-gain portion of the study, the volunteers went back to eating normally.
Six months later, most of the participants had lost an average of 11 pounds, bringing them back - almost - to their original weight. Unfortunately, within 12 months, they had put on an average of 3.3 pounds, and after two years they were an average of 7 pounds heavier than they were before the study began. Members of a control group showed no change in weight over that time.
The study appears to show that there are long-term effects on the body when someone binges for even a short time, making it more difficult to maintain an optimum weight.
If you or someone you know regularly goes on extremely low-calorie, food restricted diets - which describes most fad diets - then you also know that fad diets are almost always followed by a short period when the dieter eats almost everything in sight.
It really can't be helped. You've just spent a week or two starving yourself, and that naturally causes you to think almost incessantly about food - the more calorie-rich the food, the more often it occupies your mind. Then, like a drowning person gasping for breath the second his head is above water, you fall off your diet and head to the nearest fast food joint for a burger and a Coke. With fries, naturally. Maybe a milk shake for dessert. The fat lost during the week of starvation is all gained back again, and the extra you put on may never go away.
But you can be assured that the fad diets themselves will never go away, because the promise of fast weight loss is just to alluring to ignore. Even if the promise is false.
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