"Shuurai" > wrote in message
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> > Problem with diet systems is they're promoted without taking age, sex &
> > lifestyle into consideration.
>
> There was a study done recently - I'd have to dig for the link - that
> showed pretty strongly that starting just about *any* regimented diet
> from nothing would generally show results. There are people out there
> who have started eating nothing but fast food and they lost weight.
>
> The reason isn't so much what they're eating but that fact that it's
> all of a sudden being controlled. Instead of eating whatever they like
> (which, for most people turns out to be more than they realize once
> they start keeping track) they actually watch what they eat, and when
> they eat it.
>
> Similar thing happens with those "lose weight while you sleep"
> suppliments that are often sold in magazines and on television. Most
> of them have as a requirement that you not eat for a set number of
> hours before going to bed. Studies have shown that it's not the
> suppliment that makes you lose the weight - it's the fact that you're
> no longer eating junk before going to bed.

Apparently, Sumo wrestlers eat a lot and then sleep right afterwards.
Kinda sounds similar to the average TV watching, junk food munching consumer
just before bed time.
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