Dieting now makes you gain weight. How’d we get here?
Katherine Seligman
If it’s January, then it must be time to diet, right? You’ve spent the past month at the buffet trough. Now every time you turn on the TV news you’re seeing that same person with a three-story midsection jiggling past, head discreetly out of the picture, an illustration of that same statistic: 63 percent of us reside in the fatosphere.
But maybe we’re getting the wrong message here. Perhaps 2009 should be the Year of the Un-Diet. What if we finally settled what one researcher calls “the war with our bodies”?
“Dieting is the worst thing people can do if they’re interested in weight control,” said Linda Bacon, a nutrition professor and clinical psychotherapist in the East Bay whose book, “Health at Every Size,” was published in November (BenBella Books). “Dieting seems the fastest way to gain weight.”
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