Knowledge
The majority of popular diets build on a few leading principles, not considering the amount of research that has been carried out around the world in recent years on what makes us feel hungry or full, the 999 different ways we burn calories, and the ways in which hormones, enzymes and neurotransmitters in our bodies react with each other under various conditions.
Human bodies are so complex and, in many ways, so different from each other, that this research is far from reaching a conclusion on many issues, but the quantity of evidence grows stronger each day. Fifty years from now, people will no doubt wonder at what we were prepared to put into our bodies at the beginning of the 21st century.
When browsing publications for the scientific community, you encounter dozens of studies, in which researchers fed animals and humans every possible diet, made them run, do squats, eat from red or blue plates or smell lavender or rose before meal.
However, when you search your local bookshop, few - if any - dieting books on display will hold the amplitude of the evidence proven to reduce our cravings, burn more energy, or increase our willpower.
The more research data exists, the more we see how complex weight management is: a far cry from calories in-calories out (see also our article 'Is calorie counting useful?' in the ‘Free advice’ section).
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