Lose weight, which diet to choose? Maybe a correct diet, which we are sure will make us lose weight . Too bad that most diets are incorrect, that is, they cannot make you lose weight because they are not scientifically reliable.
Many diets we hear about and many clichés regarding nutrition are actually little more than legends, indeed, real bullshit: Matt Fitzgerald , nutritionist and sportsman, author of a book not translated into Italy is convinced of this. , ” Diet Cults “, in which he explains the ” surprising fallacy behind nutritional fads and a guide to a healthy diet for us “. Matt’s thesis is simple, and I fully agree with it. Many diets that are popular today are based on the personal experience of one or more people, according to a typical logical fallacy that ” if the diet works for me, then it will work for everyone “. In this regard, often the diet is then “dressed” ad hoc with theories that have nothing scientific or accredited : studies based on small samples of the population or on simple “direct observation” without other forms of measurement, studies that examine periods short of time and without taking into account the environmental factor, and so on.None of you would trust the Paleo diet, the Dukan diet, or the Zone diet and discover that behind these theories there is a well-packaged and mystified nothing. Yet all the newspapers write about it! Worse are the myths about nutrition, based on studies from the 1970s: Do eggs cause cholesterol? Here, maybe not. And there are people who keep spreading margarine on bread instead of butter. Or people who believe blood type can affect diet. All mystifications, according to Matt. Which says that in matters of diet and nutrition we all worry too much about finding the holy grail of weight loss, which does not exist. The ideal diet is subjective, but above all one thing has never been denied: