Why do not the diets work? The iatrogenic effect of cognitive restriction
This month’s Sciences publishes an article with a significant title: “Confused truths about weight loss.” Susan B. Roberts and Sai Krupa Das both lead the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at the Tufts University (Medford / Somerville, Usa). The fact that overweight and obesity is so and more and more common in the world so much to talk about “globe” tells us that nobody has yet been able to implement methods that can contain, if not reduce, the phenomenon significantly. Noting how fashionable diets, television reality and willpower ultimately left the mark, the two US researchers explain that their twenty-year work is mostly in challenging “common dogmas” by opening “doors for new approaches” . In this perspective, open to new proposals and new approaches, we receive this contribution of psychologist and psychotherapist Anne Galles of the Open School Cognitive Studies in Milan.
