Staying on a diet more important than which diet you choose

Staying on a diet more important than which diet you choose

Short version: what causes most diets to fail is that people stop following the diet. So pick one you can live with and stick to it.


In Finance we often talk about endogenity. I actually used diets in a class once to describe the endongenity problem but dropped it later when there were people in the class who I worried would take it as personal (i.e. they would feel I was telling them they were fat). The idea is that firms pick a strategy that works for them, but may not for other firms. Thus when finance professors try to decided what strategies work, we fail to find anything.

The same is true in diets. Many diets will help people lose weight, but they only work if people stick to them. So what works for one, may not work for others.


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