The Diet Industry

Today I would like to congratulate Geoffrey Cannon on the release of his book stating the blatantly obvious for anyone with two brain cells to rub together; ‘Dieting Makes You Fat’.

There is, of course, a slight misnomer in the title anyway, as all ways of eating are types of diet; but I’ll let him get away with that today.

The clue really is in the title of this blog, the diet ‘industry’. Without the millions of us suckers believing that by taking a course of tablets that contain an amphetamine (similar to speed) or by cutting back on a food group or worse still only eating one food group; that they will be the answer to all of our weight retention worries.

These things of course will work. If you are eating less than your body needs to run itself or taking a substance that temporarily makes your body’s metabolism speed up, then indeed you will begin to burn the fat you’re storing. This is why it works quite quickly; you’re body thinks you’re starving to death so starts using the stored resources to keep you running.

Now, here’s another obvious thing. If you have informed your body you are starving to death, the food you are eating will be broken down differently to last you longer. This by-product of the slimming diet is of course inconsequential as you watch the weight fall off.

Now, if the type of diet you had before this slimming diet made you fat, why would it not make you fat again when you finish the slimming diet and return to it?

Quite simply, it will. You were eating an imbalanced diet and not doing enough exercise, which is why you were fat.

Now there is an extra dimension to the problem. As you start eating normally again, you’re body is still running like you are starving to death. So your food intake goes up and your body stores even more of it than before, to make very sure that when the food runs out again, you will be able to go on for longer.

So, the weight goes back on, another season starts and the diet industry tells you that yet again, you are just too fat and ugly. The last slimming diet didn’t work…but you’re sure the next one definitely will.

Geoffrey Cannon, in his new book, states the supurbly obvious। If you want to get slimmer and healthier then take a long hard look at your lifestyle. Only you has made you fat, no-one else. You can’t blame McDonalds or Burger King or companies who make the ready meals you buy because you’re ‘just too busy’ to put pasta in a sauce pan or a potato in the oven and just ‘too tired’ to do a bit of exercise twice a week. They don’t come to your house, tie you down and make you swallow.

The only one to blame is you and your lazyness. It’s far easier to keep doing the fad diets and blame the world for your inadequacies than take responsibility for yourself.