The Diet Trap Revisited: Yo-Yo Effect, Decreased Basal Metabolic Rate and the Myth of Fat-Free Mass Losses. Plus: Gender Discrimination and the "Diabetic Advantage"
Image 1: Geoffrey Cannon's "Dieting Makes You Fat" was first published in 1983 and has lost nothing of its topicality. According to relatively recent data ( Bendixen. 2002 ; Kruger. 2004 ), roughly 30–50% of the women and 10–30% of the men are currently or have recently attempted to lose weight by "dieting". I would assume that at least 90% of these dieters followed did so by just following the "Hippocratic approach" to weight loss of eating less and exercising more a strategy that is probably even more futile today, than 400BC, when it was first proposed by the father of modern allopathic medicine (cf. Precope. 1952 ), or 1983, when Cannon and Einzig published the first of the countless editions of their explanation for why dieting is a disaster (which is by the way, not just because a calorie was not a calorie ;-). Dieting makes you fat - fullstop! From earlier as well as more recent studies on the effects of starvation, calorie restrictio...