I’ve skimmed the linked site. It seems to describe a way to modify eating behavior resulting in people both eating healthily and being happy about it, rather than repressing their desires for food, obsessing over diets, and suffering psychologically.
I’m not an expert on the subject; I don’t know what different methods exist to achieve this kind of result and what is each method’s rate of success.
My original statement that “there is no disagreement” was wrong, I should have qualified it. Some people remain healthy all their lives while just eating whatever they like. Others may be able to achieve such a state through some behavioral modification technique. Still others may remain unhappy with healthy diets. For some there may not be a healthy diet at all: for instance people suffering from obesity, which may be associated with “bad” diet, but which in some cases no dietary changes can effectively fix.
The correct statement should be that the diets formed by just eating whatever we like are often harmful, and in some of these cases no healthy diet can be found that the person likes and can adhere to without any effort.
A follow-up question would be whether exercise screens off being obese, i.e. whether going from obese to thin tends to make you healthier even if you’re already exercising. My guess is yes.
My guess is no, especially if you figure in the risk of getting an eating disorder—as far as I can tell, dieting is a gateway behavior for getting eating disorders.The risk isn’t terribly high, but the health effects of eating disorders are very negative.
In any case, rather few people achieve a substantial stable weight loss, so it’s hard to tell.
I’ve skimmed the linked site. It seems to describe a way to modify eating behavior resulting in people both eating healthily and being happy about it, rather than repressing their desires for food, obsessing over diets, and suffering psychologically.
I’m not an expert on the subject; I don’t know what different methods exist to achieve this kind of result and what is each method’s rate of success.
My original statement that “there is no disagreement” was wrong, I should have qualified it. Some people remain healthy all their lives while just eating whatever they like. Others may be able to achieve such a state through some behavioral modification technique. Still others may remain unhappy with healthy diets. For some there may not be a healthy diet at all: for instance people suffering from obesity, which may be associated with “bad” diet, but which in some cases no dietary changes can effectively fix.
The correct statement should be that the diets formed by just eating whatever we like are often harmful, and in some of these cases no healthy diet can be found that the person likes and can adhere to without any effort.
There are fat (obese) healthy people. There’s evidence that exercise is a better correlation for health than BMI or fat %.
A follow-up question would be whether exercise screens off being obese, i.e. whether going from obese to thin tends to make you healthier even if you’re already exercising. My guess is yes.
My guess is no, especially if you figure in the risk of getting an eating disorder—as far as I can tell, dieting is a gateway behavior for getting eating disorders.The risk isn’t terribly high, but the health effects of eating disorders are very negative.
In any case, rather few people achieve a substantial stable weight loss, so it’s hard to tell.