The Diet Delusion
This Best Seller Clears the Air
The number of books that have been written and published in just the past ten years about dieting is phenomenal. There are books out about the myths of dieting and about the fastest ways to lose weight. There are books that outline every fad diet to hit the dieting scene. But the best book out is The Diet Delusion , written by the scientifically trained journalist Gary Taubes. The Diet Delusion is easy reading and can be easily understood by anyone who wishes to pick it up and learn a few facts about dieting that may surprise even those who are the ‘experts’.
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Some of the fad diets out there can be classified as a diet delusion because most people will believe anything and will try anything to lose weight fast. The delusional part comes in because losing weight fast with most fad diets will only result in being unhealthy and malnourished. Your body will react by losing muscle and water, giving the ‘delusion’ of losing those pounds fast when in fact you are only causing unneeded stress on your body. In The Diet Delusion Book , Taubes points out that fad diets are relayed to the general public as something they are not, boasting good health and toned bodies when in truth you may be harming your body. Most of those out there who are generating these fad diets are giving out this kind of diet information without the basis of scientific research or any other kind of medical backup.
The Diet Delusion fully reveals that modern society has grown unhealthy and obese due to an intake of foods that are high in fat. The people in today’s society are suffering from heart disease, severe obesity in some, and diabetes. All these conditions are most times the result of a bad, high fat diet that is eaten a daily basis in some individuals. The regimen of healthy foods and exercise are forgotten by some in the fast paced world of today. One fact that is deeply researched in the Diet Delusion Book is the good and the bad of cholesterol, the amount of fat in the blood. The instructions of eating a low-fat diet as being the best way to stop the rise of too much fat in the blood is given without much scientific research into that hypothesis. Most diets are assumed as being the best way to ward off some major illnesses associated with obesity without any research to back up the theory.
Taubes expels the carbohydrate diets and what is really going on in the body due to the intake of foods that are high in carbohydrates. The diets including low and high carbohydrates can be detrimental to health and weight loss in general. A lot of chronic conditions that are associated with the modern day diet of the average individual are exposed in The Diet Delusion Book . With a lot of the fad carbohydrate diets, your body doesn’t get enough fiber or the right amount of recommended vitamins .