In the diet industry, just like any other industry: what is sold has to work to some extent in order to keep selling and not be labelled a scam. While 95% of diets don’t work quite as well as dieters would like them to, they are still a huge growing market. Why is that?
– most social habits and conducts are the result of culture and depend on who releases information and for what purpose. As of today, the system promotes, to a large extent, ignorance of basic nutrition, and mass processed products (including food) are the norm. Food is viewed as a product among others, not a way to stay healthy
– lots of diets tend to be considered temporary adjustments, which obviously results in dieters getting back to their pre-diet state after a while
– in nutrition, just as in any scientific subject, when someone discovers an important factor that positively influences a desired result, they tend to abusively make things look like this factor is dominant, if not the sole one that matters, when the truth is many factors determine a person’s level of health and well being
– nutrition and the digestive system are probably the most obscure aspect of the human physiology. Only recently have scientists discovered that there are neurotransmitters within the guts, and the implications of this finding are still speculation to this day. This is just an example of how complex the digestive system is and how ignorant of it humans are
– while it is not debatable that some principles exist that apply to all human beings or groups of human beings, the way individuals respond to food and other external factors vary greatly from person to person, and no diet can teach someone how to adjust to their own particularities
– from a diet program seller’s point of view, there is no point in selling a very comprehensive dieting course when it is more profitable to slice the information and sell it piece by piece
– the typical diet buyer is asking for simple, easy to follow diet models. The overall pertinence of the info is of little importance to them as long as they get results
– assuming that some weight loss diets are working but are actually bad for one’s health (this is easily provable), dieters tend to not care for the negative aspects of a diet; even when they gain their weight back, they just start over
– the average dietary habits of people are so bad that just about any adjustment that takes away some of these unhealthy tendencies will produce some positive results, even if the method is flawed
– diets makers and marketers tend to make it sound like weight and health are based on what you eat when in reality, your global mental state tremendously influences the way one eats, which makes psychology a major factor in health deterioration. To put it simply, it’s hard to eat and feel well when living a stressful life with little time for yourself
Although this article focuses on why diets are generally bad, we will quickly review some ways to make the most of any diet in terms of weight loss and well being:
– if a method is supposed to get you where you want to go within a certain time frame only to let you go back to the same habits that got you in trouble in the first place, then it’s probably not a good one. Look for a blueprint for a healthier lifestyle, not transitory adjustments
– look for identical principles in most methods. If almost everybody agrees on them, the odds are they are worthwhile
– look for the main guidelines in popular diets and apply the ones that don’t contradict one another. Ex: if one diet suggests that you eat unsaturated fatty acids and another suggests that you only eat fat in the morning, it’s probably a good idea to eat mono-unsaturated fatty acids in the morning
Now for some common sense. Experts, especially when they have something to sell, should be listened to, not obeyed or considered infallible. Why take some expert advice when it is obvious you should:
– ban MSG (mono-sodium glutamate), genetically modified foods (GMO), refined foods, sodium fluoride, aspartame, heavy metals, which have all been proven to be very toxic to the human body
– increase the proportion of vegetable you eat
– eat more organic food
– decrease the global amount of food you eat of at least 1/4 so that your body doesn’t use all its energy on digestion
– if you don’t have kidney failure, vitamin C can be ingested at high doses, especially in the winter
– eat foods that contain antioxidants
– get a few minutes of sunlight daily to get vitamin D naturally
– leave room for some raw food in your diet to benefit from enzymes, vitamins, and intact protein
Finding the right diet can be hard, but don’t look for one unless applying the above tips isn’t doing any good. The required effort of dieting shouldn’t become a burden in your life. Instead, try to slowly replace your bad habits by healthier ones.
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