Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss by Sandra AamodtMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This strikes me as an irresponsible title and first few chapters. The author has clearly looked at a lot of weight studies, though she’s often drawn aggressive conclusions that all diets make you gain weight. Some of the diets aren’t even diets but actual periods of starvation that caused food-related psychological issues.
As the author herself states, there are numerous reasons why people gain weight, not just as the first few chapters suggest, the actual act of dieting. By Chapter 9, she’s listing people who can’t lose weight through intuitive eating. By Chapter 10, she’s discussing how the food environment is itself a huge factor in causing weight gain.
She’s also underplayed the importance of achieving a lower weight- even temporarily- to lifespan.
Maybe start with Chapter 11, and read chapters 1-10 in backward order.
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