A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach
Balanced meals built around vegetables, legumes, and lean proteins. Moderate amounts of fats, sugar, and carbs. Regular exercise and occasional treats . . .
In theory, eating healthily is pretty simple. In reality, it’s anything but. And no wonder! Food and what it does to us are fraught, emotional topics.
Think about being thin, for example. A slim figure is not just about health – we also associate it with moral and aesthetic concepts like self-control and beauty. We overeat when we’re stressed or anxious. We punish overindulgence by denying ourselves “sinful” foods: the things we actually like eating.
In short, we’re pretty neurotic when it comes to nutrition. The whole diet industry is built on the recognition of this simple fact. Unfortunately, dieting usually only makes things worse.
The key message here is: Dieting is counterproductive.
Dieting is big business. In the United States, the industry is worth around $60 billion annually. In the mid-’70s, commercials for dieting products were rare; today, though, over five percent of all ads are for diet-related products.
Today, there are thousands of diets to choose from. Browse a bookstore and you’ll find volumes that advocate eating like carnivorous cavemen or, on the other end of the spectrum, following the apostles of veganism. Both camps promise weight loss, health, and, ultimately, happiness.
And that’s not all: there are also people who promise that you’ll achieve the same results by putting butter in your coffee, or reducing your daily fat intake to zero, or drinking grapefruit juice with every meal.
But while the industry rakes in cash, people aren’t getting slimmer. On the contrary, obesity rates are skyrocketing. More people are dieting than ever before, but the majority of Americans are overweight. So what’s going on?
Well, dieting actually appears to increase your risk of gaining weight. That’s the conclusion a team of nutrition scientists at UCLA reached in 2007. They reviewed 31 long-term studies of the effects of dieting in adults, and the results were staggering. Sixty-six percent of people regained more weight than they’d lost.
But perhaps these people were predisposed to weight gain? Nope – the researchers checked that. At the beginning of the studies, the dieters weighed the same as their non-dieting peers. So it wasn’t genetics that made them overweight. Instead, it was dieting.
If people took an asthma medication that improved their breathing for a few weeks but undermined their long-term health, we’d be crying foul. And yet, when it comes to dieting, we blame ourselves and our lack of “willpower.”
But it’s not us that’s wrong – it’s the product that stinks!
Intuitive Eating (2012) has two aims: to expose the broken promises of the diet industry and to lay the foundations for a saner approach to healthy eating. It argues that we shouldn’t blindly accept the often screwy constraints of faddish diets – instead, we’d be much better off listening to our own bodies. Unlike our minds, which are far too receptive to irrational ideas about food, our bodies intuitively know what’s best for us.
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