Diet dilemmas

A patient once told me she couldn’t lose weight. She’d been on multiple diets over the previous years and had retained elements of each in her quest for a slimmer figure. It didn’t work...

Her story deftly illustrates the morass of half-baked fallacy and mumbo-jumbo that exists in this area. To help you avoid the same pitfalls here is my analysis of some of the diets currently doing the rounds — some have positive benefits, but most won’t yield successful long-term weight loss — although may make your wallet thinner.

1 LOW CARB DIETS (e.g. the Dukan Diet, the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet)