Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The Media Strikes Again: Public Perception and the Real Truth about Diets

An article recently published by the Associated Press posted on MSNBC (Title: Dieting usually fails in the long run, study finds) discusses the long-term ineffectiveness of diets, according to the examination of 31 weight loss studies at UCLA. Here, you have academics from top institutions discussing the perception of diet ineffectiveness, while the entire issue is framed incorrectly altogether. For starters, the accepted convention of the word diet is synonymous with project management, the basic premise of which has a beginning phase, milestones or calculated logical steps or activities for progression and adaptive modification, and an ending phase with goal completion. A diet is not even the proper conception of the overall issue of fat loss; an eating pattern is the correct perception. The reason why diets don't work is simple; the body is genetically programmed to biochemically adapt to long-term eating patterns of foods with consistent or averaged out macro-nutrient profiles. No matter how much weight one loses in a temporary dieting measure, the body will readjust to replace the lost weight once one goes back to and continues the eating pattern(s) (or similar ones) assumed prior to dieting. The issue is not dieting. It is prolonged adaptation to proper eating patterns necessary to attain and maintain superior body recomposition effects (i.e., fat loss and muscle conditioning).


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