There are many different types of weight loss diets. Here is a sampling:

• Commercial weight loss programs (e.g., Weight Watchers, NutriSystem, Jenny Craig, eDiets, Optifast, LA Weight Loss).
• Medical supervised weight loss programs (e.g., Optifast, Health Management Resources, Medifast).
• Self-help weight loss programs (e.g., Overeaters Anonymous, Take Off Pounds Sensibly).
• Book-based diet (e.g., Atkins, Zone, South Beach, You: On A Diet).
• Consuming diet eating food (e.g., manufactured food with artificially low calories or fat).
• Any other unnatural food restrictions prescribed by some external source (e.g., family, friends, physician).
  

The problem is that weight loss diets don't help people lose weight. Scientific studies repeatedly show that more than 95% of people on weight loss diets gain back any lost weight - often overshooting where they started.

Despite this irrefutable research data, almost a third of the United States population is on a weight loss diet at any one time.

How is this possible? Why would so many people subject themselves to weight loss diets in order to lose weight when they have been proven over and over again not to work? In fact, there is a great deal of evidence that weight loss diets actually make the problem worse by inflicting physiological changes that actually cause weight gain.

So weight loss diets are not just a failure because dieters almost always gain back any lost weight. The sad reality is that weight loss diets often lead to a higher weight than where the dieters started.

But, most people would never know about the research data proving the failure of weight loss diets. Why? Because of the successful efforts of the $60 billion U.S. weight loss industry. This industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising and public relations trying to convince the American public that their weight loss programs work -- and, disappointingly, at any one time, at least a third of the population believe them despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

What's needed is for people to understand the truths about weight loss diets, which is the purpose of the articles below.

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