persuasive-dieting makes people fat

-makes people crave unhealthy food more 

-metabolism

-diets are ineffective nutritionally

Diet culture has skyrocketed in popularity as society begins to value healthy lifestyles more than ever. However, are diets really working? Or are avid dieters just going down a dead end? Turns out diets can even result in more gained weight. Imagine depriving yourself of the food you want and genuinely need, and instead slowing down your metabolism and ruining your mental health. It can and never will be worth it-so listen to your body, instead of money-hungry businessmen.

Diets have never made a person truly happy. After all, wouldn't freedom with food mean eating whatever you want? Those who eat without restriction have genuinely more balanced diets as they know they can eat foods they enjoy whenever they want. Compare them to someone on a diet-who tires of eating salad all day, and has built up strong cravings for 'forbidden foods', or foods diet culture considers unhealthy. This would either result in eventually losing control and binge eating fast food to break out of the diet barrier, or an eternally ruined relationship with food and yourself, becoming a serious mental health problem. Causing yourself so much emotional trauma for something that wouldn't even work is a lost cause.

Metabolism is also a factor-depriving yourself of food slows it down because the body no longer needs to digest larger amounts. So even though you went through all the effort to eat less, you're still more likely to gain weight than someone who eats unrestrictively. This is why so many people who 'lose weight' in false advertising quickly gain it back after. If you disrupt the routine your digestive system has become accustomed to after all these years, the obvious response will be that it won't function as well. Simple as that.

Science also discredits diets, and with good reason. If our ancestors cut out essential food groups just for a good body, we wouldn't even exist today! They valued nutrition because slimming diets weren't a thing yet, and it's thanks to them that we now have healthy, strong bodies. So don't ruin good health just for an ideal body. At the end of the day what matters is that you're alive, not the amount of carbs you cut out or pills you take.

If diets were effective, there'd only be one! We can't let these useless numbers and labels destroy our lives, especially when there is so much more to life than food restriction and a slim body. Dieting has not made us progress as a society simply because it doesn't work. It's more likely to have the opposite effect! You're better off eating the way we were born to eat-whatever you want, whenever you want.