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Diets Not Only Do Not Work, They May Be Harmful To Your Health

By Joe Thiel

Dieting without exercise is not only fighting a losing battle, it could even be harmful to your health!

A big part of my mission is to expose the lies perpetrated by the weight-loss industry. As an example, the headline of a recent article stated:

"Atkins Beats Other Diet Plans in Study"

Without going into the details, the study involved 311 women averaging about 40 years of age. It was designed to measure the effectiveness of using a diet book to lose weight, comparing the Atkins Diet against the Zone, the Ornish diet and the U.S. government guidelines. The women were randomly assigned to read one of four diet books. They attended weekly classes for eight weeks where diet questions were addressed, but then were mostly on their own for the next 10 months.

The bottom line is, none of the diets worked very well. Dr. David Katz of the Yale Prevention Research Center said the new study presents little new information and called it "much ado about nothing."

Worse than that, I just read a new study that shows that diet without exercise may be harmful!

In this particular study comparing dieting verses exercise for weight loss, individuals in both groups lost weight (about 10 percent of their body weight), but the diet alone group lost some things they didn't need (or want) to lose: muscle mass, strength, and aerobic capacity!

Here's what I want you to get (and what the multi-billion dollar weight loss industry does not want you to know!):

The adults in the exercise group also lost a significant amount of body weight, 10 percent. But, at the end of the study they had MORE muscle mass, strength and aerobic capacity. This is where exercise beats dieting every time:

The exercisers, now with a revved-up metabolism from building and toning muscle, and with new-found strength and aerobic capacity, have positioned their bodies to continue receiving the positive benefits of weight loss.

If you're still trying to lose weight by focusing on dieting alone (and ALL popular weight-loss diets have one thing in common -- reducing your caloric intake to near starvation levels), you are being set up by the diet industry for failure. Why? Because you are using a method to lose weight that can't possibly work, physiologically speaking, long-term. You are utterly destroying your metabolism! And if you continue slowing down your metabolism with faulty nutrition practices (diets), it's going to get harder and harder to lose weight in the future.

The lead researcher in the 'diet vs. exercise' study, Dr Edward Weiss of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was quoted:

'If push comes to shove and somebody wants to know if they should diet or exercise to lose weight, I would suggest exercise'. Exercise-induced weight loss provides the additional benefit of improving physical performance capacity.

That is, not only will you lose weight, but you'll FEEL BETTER in the process!

Let me add a little more fuel to the fire!

In an earlier study, the Weiss research team demonstrated that weight loss with diet also caused a loss in bone density.

The researchers reported that 'clinically important sites of fracture' took the direct hit from diet alone weight loss method. They concluded:

These data suggest that exercise should be an important component of a weight loss program to offset adverse effects of calorie restriction on bone.

Now, I know YOU get this, but undoubtedly you know of someone who is literally harming him or herself by continually dieting!

Would you do them a huge favor and pass this email along to them? They can contact me for a free consultation, and as always, there will be no pressure to 'buy' a program. But we'll gently offer them a hand and assist them in putting together a customized solution to their health and fitness needs.

About the Author:

Joe Thiel is a certified personal trainer. He has personally trained hundereds of satisfied clients throughout the Midwest. He currently owns and operates personal training studios in Springfield, IL and Chesterfield, MO. He can be

His websites: http://www.ftspringfield.com and http://www.ftchesterfield.com