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Originally Posted by bcsoda
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The article is overly broad, but it's got the right idea: dieting is a short term and unsustainable fix, and people who lose weight through dieting will almost always gain all of it back (and not long after the diet comes to an end either).
Simply put, weight isn't the issue - most NHL players are "overweight" and I doubt anyone would criticize them for being unhealthy.
The issue is diet (in terms of quality moreso than quantity) and lifestyle (in terms of activity). If you're eating nothing but bleached bread and pop, and engaging in no physical activity, you could be well within the so called "normal" weight range, and still be very unhealthy.
Complicating the diet component is the fact that healthy foods are simply more expensive and less available that unhealthy ones. This is why you have the seemingly paradoxical situation of morbid obesity being more common among poorer populations: the food they can afford is pumped full of HFCS, and otherwise nutritionally depleted.
Diets are not sustainable - nobody can be on a "diet" for the rest of their life. That's why almost everyone gains the weight back. Lifestyle change (both in terms of nutrition and physical activity) is necessary to achieve a long-lasting change, and this is obviously really really hard to do - particularly for those who were raised on frozen pizzas, cokes, chips, and mickey d's.
Leaving all that aside though,
weight shouldn't be anyone's focus.
Health is what's important here. Some (perhaps most) of the healthiest people in our society are regarded by most statistics as "overweight". That right there should tell you that weight isn't what's important here: it's health.