Health and Nutrition Letter

The Facts on Five Diet Myths

July 2006

Abstract

Though we all “ought” to know better, the desire for quick weight loss often tempts us into unhealthy practices, the results of which are almost always temporary. Have you fallen prey to any of these popular dieting myths, identified and “busted” by the Weight-control Information Network of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases?

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