Dieting in America

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             them on diets and taking them off. What he found was that each time they went
             on a diet, they continued to lose less and less weight until they were no longer
             losing weight at all. The weight gained after the diet, however, continued. They
             were successful at gaining the weight they wanted. Schwartz came to the
             conclusion that diets do not work as we expect . Contrary to his popular
             book title Diets Don't Work, he states that "diets do work, they work in
             Geoffrey Cannon, another expert in the field of dieting, agrees with
             Schwartz that binge eating and starving, two very common ways of dieting
             for Americans, are more harmful than helpful. Cannon says "the body of a
             person on a crash diet reacts as if to starvation," (Dieting Makes You Fat, 254)
             and Schwartz says, "when the amount of food your body has been receiving
             drops drastically, your body figures that the planet has temporarily run out
             of food" (Diets Still Don't Work, 12). They agree that at this point your
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