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Diets That Work Fast

Are There Diets That Work – Really?

Executive summary about Diets That Work by Victor Shallow

Before we get in to diets that work, let’s talk about why most diets don’t work. In his book “Optimum Sports Nutrition” Dr Colgan of the Colgan Institute sites three main problems with most popular diets. The three primary reasons most diets don’t work are :

1. They are concerned with reducing weight rather than the correct approach of reducing body fat.
2. They strip off vital muscle which is the major body component that burns the fat in the first place.
3. They take off weight far too fast, thereby throwing the body into a defensive, fat preserving condition.

Weight loss supplements, diet programs, etc are a multi -billion dollar a year industry, and although some of them work temporarily- they don’t last. Muscle is the main body component that burns fat. Therefore when someone loses a lot weight quickly, and then returns to a normal calorie intake, their body has less ability to burn the calories and they gain all the weight back and then some.
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