diet

Sometimes you can’t win for losing. One study found that those who eat less often are more likely to be overweight. Researchers found that:

“on average, the normal weight subjects ate three meals and a little over two snacks each day, whereas the overweight group averaged three meals and just over one snack a day”.

Overweight people who have lost significant amounts of weight tend to gain it back and gain it back quickly. These people experience a slowing metabolism and hormonal changes that increase their appetites. Perhaps if you can just persist and keep the weight off over the longer term, say a year, you’d be more likely to keep it off.

According to another study that unfortunately that does not appear to be the case. The discouraging result after a year of maintaining weight loss:

There are hundreds of diet books out there - high carb diets, low carb diets, low fat diets, plus diets named after soups, beaches, and doctors. The originators offer data to back up their programs, and they are all purported to work. If you follow their programs most diets will work.

From this Reuters article Low-carb diet best for lowering blood pressure:

From the ScienceNOW article Chocolate Cake: The New Heroin?:

If you're constantly starting new diets, then breaking them, you may have more in common with a drug addict than you know. A new study suggests that yo-yo dieters experience the same stressful pangs of withdrawal when they go on a diet that addicts experience when they go cold turkey.

And this:

A number often bandied about is that an additional pound of muscle will burn 50 calories a day. What about already existing muscle? Wouldn't that muscle also burn 50 calories a day too? The 50-calorie-a-day number can’t be true if one makes the assumption that the muscle tissue you all ready had before adding that pound of muscle will produce the same calorie burn - i.e.

From this Medscape article Fruits, Vegetables, and Coronary Heart Disease these bullets:

• Controlled nutritional prevention trials are scarce and the existing data do not show any clear protective effects of fruit and vegetables on coronary heart disease.

Wow, who knew? From this Reuters article Overeating to blame for U.S. obesity epidemic:

From this article Kirstie Alley: 'Yes, I Gained 83 Pounds'