Why you should stop dieting.
The Facts
Each year over 10 million people in the UK and 40 million people in the USA start a new diet, within 5 1/2 weeks 50% have given up.
Of those who succeed in losing weight in the short term, 95% put all the weight back on within a year.
It is estimated that over 80% of adults in the UK have been on a diet at one time or another.
The average woman spends 31 years on a diet.
According to researchers at the University of California, not only did diets not work, but the more of them you go on the better you become at gaining weight.
In the UK there are tens of thousands of people whose lives revolve painfully around the issues of weight, eating and their control.
In the UK, one in 100 women aged between 15 and 30 suffers from anorexia. Reports show girls as young as five years of age have weight concerns and think about going on a diet.
In the UK and the USA combined approximately 12 million people suffer from eating disorders.
20% of young women diet either all or most of the time.