How Diet Soda Makes You Fat (and Other Food and Diet Industry Secrets)

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30. Because only the concept is simple. Actually do it is hard.

We've got an evolution-provided drive to eat a ton of calories, since food wasn't always available. Now food is pretty much always available. So we have to resist that drive in order to lose weight.

Which is why there's tons of people trying to sell easy, magic cures to make it easy. You'll note that the magic cures have to change over time, as they keep failing.

Most gain it back?.........Why?

Because they ate too much to begin with - they got overweight. So they go on a diet to lose weight. And when they're done with the diet, they revert to their old, comfortable habits. Meaning they go back to the same eating habits that got them overweight to begin with.

cause the article says that the diet stuff is more addictive than the refined sugar which is very very addictive.

And the fact that they completely misuse the word "addictive" is a clue that you can throw away pretty much all their conclusions.

Since the late l970s there have been over 1500 books on diet and weight loss on the New York Times best sellers list.

Yep, there's plenty of grifters out to make a buck off people looking to make losing weight easier. They're now claiming it's diet soda.