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I've Had Enough With The Diets!

By Joe Thiel

Enough is enough!

I just opened up my Yahoo! homepage, and what's the news headline?:

Atkins Beats Other Diet Plans in Study

ooooooooowwwwww....

Sorry, that's me pulling my hair out (and if you've seen my hair, that's hard to do!). I just can't take it anymore. How many more LIES are we going to be fed by the media and the weight loss industry?!

Actually, if you read between the lines of the article you will figure out the deception, but I wonder how many millions of people, desperate for real weight loss results only saw the headline and headed to the bookstore for the latest on the Atkins Diet?

I'll give you the link at the end of this article so you can check out the article for yourself. But the crux of the article appears in the first paragraph:

"The low-carb, high-fat Atkins diet gets high marks in one of the biggest, longest head-to-head studies of popular weight-loss plans, beating the Zone, the Ornish diet and even U.S. guidelines." (But here's the real point of the study): "Even so, critics say the results show how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off."

And look at the amazing weight-loss results (my tongue's in my cheek)...

"Atkins followers lost about 10 pounds on average at 12 months, versus 3.5 pounds for the Zone dieters. Women on the Ornish diet lost almost 5 pounds on average and those on the national guidelines plan lost almost 6 pounds."

(By the way, I wonder if the study even took into account what the weight loss consisted of, i.e., was it fat, water or muscle?).

Here's a key point from the study that could easily be overlooked by a desperate weight-loss consumer: "Scientifically, those 12-month results weren't different enough from the Atkins weight loss to rule out the possibility the differences occurred by chance."

And here's really the bottom-line according to the lead author of the study, researcher Christopher Gardner of Stanford University:

"There's not a ton of weight loss here," Gardner acknowledged. Atkins "isn't the solution for the obesity problem," he said!

This study appeared in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study "shows that nothing works very well," said Yale University food policy researcher Kelly Brownell. And Dr. David Katz of the Yale Prevention Research Center and author of several weight control books, said the new study presents little new information and called it "much ado about nothing."

Shocking information isn't it?...

Not if you've been reading my articles the past few months. The truth is:

The diet methods most people are using DON'T WORK! 95% of all people who lose weight GAIN IT ALL BACK!

Americans are fatter than ever and they're going to keep getting fatter unless they do something about it! The Surgeon General and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) tell us that more than 120 million Americans - 60% of the adult popluation - are overweight! Statistics from the CDC also prove that the problem is getting worse. This means that the way people are dieting today is not only ineffective, it's less effective than ever before! Why?

Because it's physiologically impossible to lose fat the way most people are trying to do it!

Stay tuned because in my next article I'm going to show you why the methods most dieters are using couldn't possibly work. If you just can't wait until then, follow the links to my websites to register for a free consultation or more information.

Did I mention the woman who lost the most weight in the study (roughly 23 pounds after one year, and undoubtedly some of that was muscle, but we don't know because the study didn't address this key issue), has since REGAINED about 10-15 pounds according to the article! In contrast, our recent Client of the Month lost 13 pounds of FAT and 6.5 inches in just 3 months!

Here's the link to the article I've referenced: .

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