{"id":1131,"date":"2014-12-16T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chaneyhealth.com\/healthtips\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2014-12-15T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:36:37","slug":"diets-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaneyhealth.com\/healthtips\/diets-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Diets Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dieting\"<\/a>Obesity in America?<\/h2>\n

Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney<\/h4>\n

If you are like most Americans, you are either overweight yourself or have close friends and family who are overweight. That\u2019s because 69% of Americans are currently overweight, and 36% of us are obese. Worldwide the latest estimates are that 1.5 billion adults are overweight or obese.<\/p>\n

A new report, How The World Could Better Fight Obesity<\/a>,\u00a0 estimates that obesity is a $2 trillion drain on the world\u2019s economy. That is equivalent to the global cost of war & terrorism and of smoking \u2013 and is double the global costs of alcoholism and global warming!<\/p>\n

If you are like most Americans you have tried a number of diets over the years. All of them promised that they had the \u201csecret\u201d to permanent weight loss. You lost some weight initially, but here you are a few years later weighing as much as ever.<\/p>\n

You are probably beginning to wonder whether any diets work long term. According to the latest study, the answer may just be \u201cno\u201d.<\/p>\n

Really, Do Diets Work?<\/h3>\n

This study (Atallah et al, Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 7: 815-827, 2014) was a systemmatic review of all of the randomized controlled studies of the four most popular diet plans \u2013 Weight Watchers, Akins, Zone and South Beach.<\/p>\n

In case, you are unfamiliar with these diets, here is their philosophy:<\/p>\n