Obesity police's shaky science

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opi...73,print.story


And even if being thinner were better for you, DIETS DON'T WORK:

http://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/...2?pageNumber=1

"We concluded most of them would have been better off not going on the
diet at all. Their weight would be pretty much the same, and their
bodies would not suffer the wear and tear from losing weight and gaining
it all back," said Mann.

"Diets do not lead to sustained weight loss or health benefits for the
majority of people."


Diets don't work: http://kateharding.net/2007/04/12/diets-dont-work-but/

Diets don't work:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...s-dont-work-2/

(Might need registration, so here it is in full:

More Evidence That Diets Don’t Work
By tbilanow

As if we needed a reminder that diets mostly fail, The New England
Journal of Medicine has published a new report on an intense, tightly
controlled experiment involving more than 300 moderately obese people.

After two years of effort the dieters lost, on average, 6 to 10 pounds.
The study, funded in part by the Atkins Research Foundation, seemed
designed to prove that low-carb diets trump low-fat diets. But in the
end, all it really showed is that dieters can put forth tremendous
effort and reap very little benefit.

Dr. Dean Ornish, a proponent of low-fat diets, is critical of the study
design, particularly the fact that the so-called “low-fat” diet group
was really only a moderate-fat diet that included about 30 percent of
calories from fat. He writes more about the issue in a Newsweek column here.

The New England Journal report also affirmed something many women have
believed all along — that low-carb diets work better for men than women.
Male low-carb dieters lost about 11 pounds, compared to about 9 pounds
on a Mediterranean diet. Women low-carb dieters lost only about 5
pounds, compared to about 14 on the Mediterranean diet.

Diets don't work:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/po...5F60B2E1AB3C7F

And so on. Now can we get back to talking about cooking?

ObFood: I came home exhausted, and the kid was making dinner. She
doesn't cook much, and she wasn't impressed with her simple dinner of
veggies and rice, but I loved it, and I so appreciated her taking care
of us in that way.

Serene
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