Dieters put on weight in the long run: study

One bad and one good research conclusion alert!

Here is the good conclusion: Medicare should not fund dieting.

Here is the flawed part:

Flawed study. Flawed conclusion. Flawed investigators.

The study is formally entitled "Medicare's Search for Effective Obesity Treatments."

A diet is a way of eating where one consumes fewer Calories than are burned.

It is a physical IMPOSSIBILITY for a diet not to work. As long as a person burns more Calories than he or she consumes, there will be weight loss. There is no choice. One must lose weight. This is because of the Law of Thermodynamics.

Diets fail because they are unsustainable since their APPROACH is faulty. This makes the dieting programs of the experts IMPOSSIBLE.

This poorly concluded study is of the same fabric as a study where there is testing of cars in this manner:

To determine whether a car works, all study participants are instructed to start the car by inserting the key into the ashtray, turn it and step on the accelerator to give it gas.

No car turned on. Therefore no car worked.

The flaw here is in the instructions. No currently available car will work by inserting the key into the ashtray.

The flaw in diet studies, or at least one insurmountable flaw, is that the instructions are wrong.

These researchers neglected to consider this. Though they did mention "severe" Caloric restriction, they neglected to evaluate this as a cause of diet failure.

Do not believe this group of experts. They are as ignorant as the rest.