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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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