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Dieting acts as a self-imposed famine that triggers physiological starvation responses, leading to long-term weight gain and obesity rather than sustained weight loss.
Stop dieting. The paper argues that dietary restriction acts like famine, triggering biological mechanisms that cause long-term weight gain. Instead of restricting calories, focus on accepting your body's natural weight regulation, as lifetime maintainers do not use dieting strategies.
The basic premise of this article is that dieting is a self-imposed, voluntary famine... Because weight suppression and disinhibition provoke long-term weight increase, dieting is a major factor producing the obesity epidemic.
Why this rating
The paper synthesizes longitudinal observational studies, the Minnesota Experiment, and clinical reviews, though it is a theoretical review rather than a new primary trial.
Source
Integrating Fundamental Concepts of Obesity and Eating Disorders: Implications for the Obesity Epidemic
Ann E. Macpherson-Sánchez · American Journal of Public Health · 2015
DOI 10.2105/ajph.2014.302507
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