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Are diets the best long-term solution for health and fitness?

Are diets the best long-term solution for health and fitness?

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Let’s face it:

Me and you both have tried one diet or the other. Whether your goals are to bulk up, lose weight, or improve your health, you’ve likely come across diets that promise what you’re looking for.

And who could blame you? Diets are one of the best-marketed products today, and they play on our emotions and deeply-rooted desires to be fit, healthy, and fulfilled. The question is, do they actually work?

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Sierra Quinn
a year ago

Well, this is a bit of a controversial topic, but the answer is kind of. They can work in the short run but are a disaster for long-term results. Here are two solid reasons why you shouldn’t bother:

1. Diets are unsustainable

According to some unofficial statistics, over 90 percent of diets fail. Of course, the exact figure is hard to pin down because people rarely make an official report for their dieting efforts. Regardless of what the actual figure is, one thing is clear:

Diets don’t work in the long run, and they never will. The biggest reason for that is because of the fundamental flaw with diets: they are unsustainable. 

Everyone can stick with a diet for some time, given enough motivation. But, after a while, every person hits a turning point because diets are overly-restrictive. When that happens, folks revert to their old eating habits and end up erasing all of the progress they had managed to make.

If you don’t believe this, ask yourself:

Can you stick to a given diet for the rest of your life? How about for a decade? If the answer is no, you shouldn’t bother.

2. Diets force an unhealthy relationship with food

Dieting often brings a black and white, good or bad mentality toward food, which trips many people up in the long run. Diets teach us that foods are good or bad - for example, steak with potatoes is good, but a bowl of ice cream is bad.

In truth, we should see food as more and less nutritious. Some are better than others, but that doesn’t mean we should avoid diversity and enjoyability when eating.

In truth, we should focus mostly on having whole foods. But none of this is to say that having the occasional treat is terrible. Diets program us to avoid many of our favorite foods and label them as unhealthy for no good reason. As a result, we become increasingly more frustrated and eventually give up.

So, what should we do instead?

Build Better Habits

This answer is hardly as exciting as most diets are but are what works in the long run. Habits are what account for nearly half of our daily actions, thoughts, and choices. Habits are what shape our lives.

They don’t deliver as quick results as diets do, but they become a part of our lives. Once we’ve established them, we don’t need motivation or conscious effort to carry them out; we just do them.

For example, picking healthier foods at the grocery store is a habit. At first, it might feel challenging to resist temptation. But after a while, it becomes automatic, and you find yourself filling your kitchen with whole and nutritious foods.

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Anna Visaya
a year ago

The answer is Yes and No. Diet is an obscurred idea muddled by advertising and society standards. Often assiociated with weight loss, fitness and health. The probability for a diet to work depends on a lot of minor details. For example the keto diet, It was meant for diabetic patients to regulate glucose intake to minimize the damages the disease could inflict to the person. When it comes to fitness and losing weight, Experts advise against dieting if the person is healthy because the results may be damaging rather than beneficial.

The body have a system and sometimes dieting interferes with it's routine causing other problems like gas, breaking out, weakening, insomnia and sometimes even weight gain. A succesful diet should not be measured on how "fit" the person's body looks but on how healthy they feel. Dieting results shouldn't be narrowed down to toned hourglass figures or firm pectoral muscles because different body types exist. Fitness as advertised is very biased considering they focuse mainly on one body shape.

People should rid themselves entirely of the need to fit society's superficial beauty standards. The individuality and unique combinations of a persons body is what gives identity to each and everyone. A person's diet should be to provide nutrients and energy for the body's consumption, For self-care and happiness even. If it keeps you healthy and alive then it is a succesful diet.

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DANIELSON JUDE
a year ago

In my opinion, the answer to that question is YES and NO. Yes to other people but no to others.

Yes, because diet makes you avoid too much sugar. Cutting calories appears to promote weight loss more effectively than does increasing exercise. Less consumption of calories is much effective for fitness than burning it through exercise.

No, because sometimes people on diet can not do it for a long time. People on diet are motivated on the starting process, but as time passes by, they seek the foods they're craving. Others can not stick to a given diet for a long time. Aside from that, diets force an unhealthy relationship with food. Sometimes, diet people see some food as bad for their diet that's why they avoid eating it. But the truth is it is good for the health.

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Gremory Dennis Idago
a year ago

Yes. Caloric Restriction is the best way to prolongs life.

It activated sirtuins if we reduce caloric intake. It turns out that our body decreases inflammation that are harmful in our overall health

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James Juno
a year ago

My advice is to go for exercise always and take less fat

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Ayan Mouzzam
a year ago

Diets can make you lose weight but instead it weakens the person it ruins his health you may be slim but that wont be slimness it would be weakness excersizing is the best way to lose weight and also be healthy

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Ayub Ahmed
8 months ago

Yes diet is important

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Sakshi Saini
7 months ago

Diet is the solution for maintaing fitness but maintaing the diet schedule is most important as if you take diet on irregular basis it wont be benificial but if you take diet on regulat basiis with proper exercise and proper schedule .You will definately get the best results.Thank you!!

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AADITYA KMC
4 months ago

If we are talking about health and fitness then nothing is better than 10 mini of meditation in the morning and a 1/2 hr (30 mini) walk in the evening and spending some time with your friends and enjoying some indoor or outdoor game. You know that Diet has no relation with health and fitness. After all, it depends on us how we feel fit if we think that we gain too much fact then after that day some of the weight getting loss because we feel like that way and we just dec. some junk food, inc. jogging time...

This is the long-term solution if being fit, healthy, and charming till your 60's...

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Birla Xavier
3 months ago

Customary "counts calories" don't work for long haul weight reduction in light of the fact that the larger part neglect to address the long-lasting way of life changes that are fundamental for effective long haul weight reduction. Conventional eating regimens are regularly exceptionally low in calories, dispense with specific nutrition classes, and deny the assemblage of fundamental supplements which can be unsafe to your wellbeing.

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Are diets the best long-term solution for health and fitness?

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Let’s face it:

Me and you both have tried one diet or the other. Whether your goals are to bulk up, lose weight, or improve your health, you’ve likely come across diets that promise what you’re looking for.

And who could blame you? Diets are one of the best-marketed products today, and they play on our emotions and deeply-rooted desires to be fit, healthy, and fulfilled. The question is, do they actually work?

  • add comment
avatar
Sierra Quinn
a year ago

Well, this is a bit of a controversial topic, but the answer is kind of. They can work in the short run but are a disaster for long-term results. Here are two solid reasons why you shouldn’t bother:

1. Diets are unsustainable

According to some unofficial statistics, over 90 percent of diets fail. Of course, the exact figure is hard to pin down because people rarely make an official report for their dieting efforts. Regardless of what the actual figure is, one thing is clear:

Diets don’t work in the long run, and they never will. The biggest reason for that is because of the fundamental flaw with diets: they are unsustainable. 

Everyone can stick with a diet for some time, given enough motivation. But, after a while, every person hits a turning point because diets are overly-restrictive. When that happens, folks revert to their old eating habits and end up erasing all of the progress they had managed to make.

If you don’t believe this, ask yourself:

Can you stick to a given diet for the rest of your life? How about for a decade? If the answer is no, you shouldn’t bother.

2. Diets force an unhealthy relationship with food

Dieting often brings a black and white, good or bad mentality toward food, which trips many people up in the long run. Diets teach us that foods are good or bad - for example, steak with potatoes is good, but a bowl of ice cream is bad.

In truth, we should see food as more and less nutritious. Some are better than others, but that doesn’t mean we should avoid diversity and enjoyability when eating.

In truth, we should focus mostly on having whole foods. But none of this is to say that having the occasional treat is terrible. Diets program us to avoid many of our favorite foods and label them as unhealthy for no good reason. As a result, we become increasingly more frustrated and eventually give up.

So, what should we do instead?

Build Better Habits

This answer is hardly as exciting as most diets are but are what works in the long run. Habits are what account for nearly half of our daily actions, thoughts, and choices. Habits are what shape our lives.

They don’t deliver as quick results as diets do, but they become a part of our lives. Once we’ve established them, we don’t need motivation or conscious effort to carry them out; we just do them.

For example, picking healthier foods at the grocery store is a habit. At first, it might feel challenging to resist temptation. But after a while, it becomes automatic, and you find yourself filling your kitchen with whole and nutritious foods.

  • add comment
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Anna Visaya
a year ago

The answer is Yes and No. Diet is an obscurred idea muddled by advertising and society standards. Often assiociated with weight loss, fitness and health. The probability for a diet to work depends on a lot of minor details. For example the keto diet, It was meant for diabetic patients to regulate glucose intake to minimize the damages the disease could inflict to the person. When it comes to fitness and losing weight, Experts advise against dieting if the person is healthy because the results may be damaging rather than beneficial.

The body have a system and sometimes dieting interferes with it's routine causing other problems like gas, breaking out, weakening, insomnia and sometimes even weight gain. A succesful diet should not be measured on how "fit" the person's body looks but on how healthy they feel. Dieting results shouldn't be narrowed down to toned hourglass figures or firm pectoral muscles because different body types exist. Fitness as advertised is very biased considering they focuse mainly on one body shape.

People should rid themselves entirely of the need to fit society's superficial beauty standards. The individuality and unique combinations of a persons body is what gives identity to each and everyone. A person's diet should be to provide nutrients and energy for the body's consumption, For self-care and happiness even. If it keeps you healthy and alive then it is a succesful diet.

  • add comment
  • 0
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DANIELSON JUDE
a year ago

In my opinion, the answer to that question is YES and NO. Yes to other people but no to others.

Yes, because diet makes you avoid too much sugar. Cutting calories appears to promote weight loss more effectively than does increasing exercise. Less consumption of calories is much effective for fitness than burning it through exercise.

No, because sometimes people on diet can not do it for a long time. People on diet are motivated on the starting process, but as time passes by, they seek the foods they're craving. Others can not stick to a given diet for a long time. Aside from that, diets force an unhealthy relationship with food. Sometimes, diet people see some food as bad for their diet that's why they avoid eating it. But the truth is it is good for the health.

  • add comment
  • 0
avatar
Gremory Dennis Idago
a year ago

Yes. Caloric Restriction is the best way to prolongs life.

It activated sirtuins if we reduce caloric intake. It turns out that our body decreases inflammation that are harmful in our overall health

  • add comment
  • 0
avatar
James Juno
a year ago

My advice is to go for exercise always and take less fat

  • add comment
  • 0
avatar
Ayan Mouzzam
a year ago

Diets can make you lose weight but instead it weakens the person it ruins his health you may be slim but that wont be slimness it would be weakness excersizing is the best way to lose weight and also be healthy

  • add comment
  • 0
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Ayub Ahmed
8 months ago

Yes diet is important

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Sakshi Saini
7 months ago

Diet is the solution for maintaing fitness but maintaing the diet schedule is most important as if you take diet on irregular basis it wont be benificial but if you take diet on regulat basiis with proper exercise and proper schedule .You will definately get the best results.Thank you!!

  • add comment
  • 0
avatar
AADITYA KMC
4 months ago

If we are talking about health and fitness then nothing is better than 10 mini of meditation in the morning and a 1/2 hr (30 mini) walk in the evening and spending some time with your friends and enjoying some indoor or outdoor game. You know that Diet has no relation with health and fitness. After all, it depends on us how we feel fit if we think that we gain too much fact then after that day some of the weight getting loss because we feel like that way and we just dec. some junk food, inc. jogging time...

This is the long-term solution if being fit, healthy, and charming till your 60's...

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  • 0
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Birla Xavier
3 months ago

Customary "counts calories" don't work for long haul weight reduction in light of the fact that the larger part neglect to address the long-lasting way of life changes that are fundamental for effective long haul weight reduction. Conventional eating regimens are regularly exceptionally low in calories, dispense with specific nutrition classes, and deny the assemblage of fundamental supplements which can be unsafe to your wellbeing.

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