The Real Reason Diets Don’t Work

Excerpt:
A quick search for weight loss books on Amazon brings up 9,319 results, including Wheatbelly, the Paleo Diet and the Lemon Detox Diet. If those diets actually worked, would we continually want new ones?

The fact of the matter is that diets are designed to fail you. Of all the dieters worldwide, only 1 in every 20 will see it work for them over the long-run. 95 percent of dieters are left feeling frustrated and miserable, back to where they started (if not worse off). Is it that 95 percent of us lack the willpower or discipline to simply stick to a change in eating habits? Or is there more to it than meets the eye–something more scientific?

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