Weight loss diets are bad for you, here’s why

\A curious post written by personal trainer Scott Abel recently appeared in the blog of independent researcher Matt Stone, 180degreehealth . It’s a blog I follow, as I follow Matt Stone, of whom I have read two books, Diet Recovery and Eat for Heat . Both books talked about how continuous diets slow down the metabolism and how to have a fast metabolism through proper nutrition and, surprise surprise, high calories.
But back to the article: Scott Abel demonstrates with an experiment done on mice why weight loss diets are bad, and they should never, ever be done. Diets for weight loss, those that exclude a macronutrient or those that are low in calories, in both cases cause “metabolic damage”. Recently I have read 4-5 books on the subject and I have gone through two seminars: I do not know why abroad they are facing the issue of metabolic damage from diets while in Italy dieticians and nutritionists continue to give us low-calorie diets and continue to propose the low-calorie diet as the only way to lose weight

Alas, this is not the case. Here’s what happens when we think we can lose weight with diets.
Scott Abel to demonstrate that weight loss diets are bad calls into question an experiment, illustrated in this study: Hepatic Response to a Very-Low-Energy-Diet and Refeeding in Rats “, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 1993.
Researchers at the University of Geneva divided the mice into 3 groups. One group was of normal size and had never been subjected to calorie restrictions; one group had been on a weight loss diet for ten days; the third group was normally lean mice.
For the first ten days, mice in groups 1 and 3 were fed normally and with the same foods; Group 2 mice were put on a diet, eating 50 percent less than the rest. At the end of ten days, the mice in group 2 were as lean as those in group 3 (the natural lean).
After ten days, all three groups followed a normal diet for another 25 days.
What group of mice do you think gained weight? Group 2. Despite the ten-day diet, at the end of the 35 days, the mice in group 2 gained more weight than they initially weighed, while the mice in groups 1 and 3 maintained their ideal weight. In particular, their extra pounds were mostly fat. Now, if we thought of humans instead of mice, we would have the exact same result. And this is the reason why 95% of cases regain weight after a weight loss diet. Experts call this bodyfat supercompensation accumulation .
There is only one big difference between “men and mice”:men continue to try weight loss diets after gaining weight, and therefore continue to perpetrate their metabolic damage.Mice obviously don’t. After the failure of the first diet, people try and try and try again, perhaps even doing more physical activity (usually a lot of cardio), and ruining their metabolism for life. The solution? Scott Abel doesn’t talk about it, but I know it personally. Stop dieting for weight loss. Paradoxically, staying light for 2 or 3 days (a lightning diet) is less harmful than dieting for weeks or months. Unfortunately, and I also say this from experience, most of the people who read this blog are still convinced that dieting for weight loss (or killing gymnastics or worse, diets and killing gymnastics) is the best way to lose. weight, while the smartest move is to aim for perfect health through nutrition,