No wonder Weight Reduction Programs Make Money

From UCLA we find dieting does not work. Traci Mann, UCLA associate professor of psychology and lead author of the study says"the majority of people regained all the weight, plus more. Sustained weight loss was found only in a small minority of participants." "We decided to dig up and analyze every study that followed people on diets for two to five years. We concluded most of them would have been better off not going on the diet at all." "Diet studies of less than two years are too short to show whether dieters have regained the weight they lost, Mann said. "Even when you follow dieters four years, they're still regaining weight," she said.
Perhaps Behavioral Science should be labelled the "Dismal Science". There is little evidence that we can make a difference, yet, in people's behaviors.