Often they do lose some weight. But if you check with the same people five years later, you will find that nearly all have regained whatever weight they lost. A recent survey tried to determine whether any commercial diet program could prove long-term success. Not a single program could do so. So rampant has the so-called diet industry become with new products and false claims that the Food and Drug Administration has stepped in and is clamping down.
Myth Being seriously obese can result in a number of diseases and serious health problems.
It is known that when caloric intake is excessive, some of the excess frequently is saturated fat. The myth is that people get heavy by eating too many calories. Caloric intake is a factor, it's true, but overall they are not the cause of obesity in America today. Americans actually take in fewer calories each day than they did at the beginning of the century. If calories alone were the reason we become overweight, we should all be thin.