>>76423820Diets work if you're able to do what every diet tries to get you to do, which is to consume fewer calories. Every intervention through diet tries to accomplish that one basic goal: encourage the person on that diet to eat and drink fewer calories. The problem is that food is society's most acceptable drug. People use food to alter their mood (rather than to sustain their bodies) all the time. They use it the same way cigarette smokers use nicotine. You don't smoke it, you don't inject it, and you don't snort it. There's little social stigma associated with it. To the contrary, in many social situations, you're expected to overeat. In fact, it is often taboo to be the only one at the dinner table among friends, family, colleagues, etc eating healthy.
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