Any diet will help someone lose weight. Unless you change your lifestyle and eating habits though, that weight will come right back.

You can gain or lose about 10% of your weight relatively easily. It’s virtually all water, of course, but you can do it.

About 2% of the population permanently loses a significant amounts of weight each year. It isn’t intentional; it happens because something goes wrong with your system. When someone becomes diabetic, it is fairly common for them to lose a lot of weight, because their bodies are starving.

Pills that are supposed to supercharge your metab9olism? It’s easy to tell that they don’t work, because YOUR BODY TEMPERATURE DOESN’T CHANGE, which is what would happen if you were were burning up that food.

Nutrition researchers now believe that body fat is a “stress organ”. If you are overstressed, it gets bigger, just like an overstressed heart or overstressed liver becomes enlarged. There’s no known way to reduce the size of an overstressed organ.

When you go on a weight-reduction program, you stress your body, and the result is permanent weight gain. Over 95% of those starting a diet four years ago today weigh more now than they did then.

Still, you have the diet programs saying “Look, I lost all this weight, and then they explain that they’ve changed the program, and they lost weight on a previous diet. They changed the diet because the old diet generally didn’t work. The new one doesn’t, either, but nobody can prove that, yet.

Do a medline search, and you’ll find that there is NO weight loss diet that is even 20% effective in taking off 40 pounds and keeping it off for 4 years. None at all. You’d think that if cutting calories, carbohydrates, fat, or some other nutritional restriction resulted in permanent weight loss, someone would have been able to show results….