Having set a goal to lose weight, most people rely on this or that miracle diet.

The main thing is to endure this torture, and the result will not be long in coming. But are these methods really effective? Let's try to figure it out!.

On a diet "sat down" even once in a life almost all. Especially persistent tried on average 25 different power systems. What was the percentage of success with this, US doctors decided to find out.

The hunger strike - the way to excess weight They analyzed the effects of different diets developed in the US from 1966 to 2003, and came to a disappointing conclusion: in 92% of cases, such weight loss recipes are doomed to failure. At least a third of those who lose weight by this or that method gain the same weight within a year, the rest return to their initial state in 2 years. Moreover, the more attempts to lose weight with the help of diets are taken by a person, the faster he ... recovers!.

And this is not a sensation, but for a long time already known to physicians the fact. Recently, it was confirmed by the results of a large-scale study, during which the effectiveness of various strategies for controlling excess body weight. Employees of the University of California selected about 30 large studies on diets and their results. Observation of participants in these experiments lasted from two to five years. It turned out that about two thirds of the thousands of participants could not lose weight, and about half of them even gained weight by the end of the reporting period.

What's the catch?.

One of the reasons for the ineffectiveness of diets scientists consider ignoring their authors such important indicators as the state of human health, its gender and social status.

Diets do not take into account the psychoemotional state of someone who wants to lose weight with their help. But it is often this is the cause of banal overeating. A person "jams", for example, his anxiety, dissatisfaction with his personal life, his career.

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