“The dirty little secret of the dieting industry is that most diets are destined to fail. But we are still bombarded with the message that if we only find the right diet we will be thin — which has been conflated with “beautiful” in our culture — and all our troubles will melt away along with our love handles. “The diet industry is a $72 billion dollar business, so there’s an extraordinary amount of money that’s hooked into selling the idea that there is something wrong with us, and if only we buy their product, we can find salvation,” says Lindo Bacon, PhD, associate nutritionist at UC-Davis and author of Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight.”
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