Dieting makes people fat

Dieting makes people fat

Introduction

The topic is based on the statement that is “Dieting makes people fat”. Research suggests that characteristics identified in obese individuals, such as impulsive decision-making and appetitive responsivity, may exist in weight gain prone populations. With the constant barrage of food cues promoting overconsumption, it is not surprising that many individuals would voluntarily restrict their food intake. Counterintuitively, however, most normal weight individuals high in restraint are not dieting to lose weight and historical dieting is actually associated with future weight gain rather than weight loss. Consequently, high restraint does not reflect reductions in energy intake to levels less than needed suggesting that restrained eaters are perpetually in positive energy balance. This particular statement has different arguments. Some people would have a view that dieting leads to the reduction of weight but some might disagree with it. Therefore, all the issues and aspects related to Dieting will be discussed in detail.

Discussion

High restraint is frequently assumed to indicate some form of dieting behavior, and the eating behavior attributed to the effects of restraint is often suggested to be due to various types of dieting, whether current, past or unsuccessful. The three main kinds of dieting behavior are historical dieting, weight suppression (the difference between a person's highest weight ever and current weight) and current dieting. Furthermore, different types of dieting are associated with different types of behavior, suggesting that dieting itself is not a uniform construct. It has been posited that by losing and regaining weight, or weight cycling, a historical dieter would see physiological effects that would contribute further to this propensity towards weight gain. Furthermore, that weight which is regained may be proportionally higher in fat than the weight that was lost, reducing overall muscle mass. The difficulty of future weight loss ...