Neuroscientist: DON’T DIET, DO THESE 4 HEALTHY HABITS

Millions attempt some form of diet yet only a small fraction achieve permanent weight loss. Neuroscientist and author Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D., suggests four healthy habits instead. [Show ID: 39533]
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00:00 If You Choose to Go On a Diet
01:42 Why It's Hard to Keep Weight Off
06:13 Psychological Effects from Dieting
07:33 Four Healthy Habits

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[@kaitnip]

I sure hope that's true. I do eat healthy, I do exercise. Unfortunately I am also overweight. Not by a lot now, but I am stressed about re-gaining the pounds I shed off.

[@koenigxolo]

I went on a strict diet and lost 35 pounds. I gained 16 back. The problem was how to eat on a maintenance diet. And I had given up so many foods that I craved I went a little nuts when I stopped dieting. However, I learned some really important information on that strict diet, and now that I'm trying to lose again I'm taking a much easier and better informed approach.

[@CyndiCalista]

The best solutions are the most simple! I'm going to do these!

[@dplj4428]

4:01 in some places and circumstances, food scarcity is not. Stressed people with little money but access to cheap nutritionally poor food might have overweight problem as the pocket money rich. 10:08 you dont walk in some places because if you do if you get back home you’ll binge on that 32 oz soda and puffy corn snack followed up by a PBJ. However, can we consider possibilities of any situation or place that there is a possibility of finding a way to make a healthier choice? Brain still is the key. What we think is possible? Is that what she means?

[@hilliard665]

Id say drink more water should have been on the list

[@juanmacias5922]

I gotta say, this talk doesn't paint the whole picture, and is only based on the perception of the middle class American. Disregarding the fact that there are still people going hungry today, even in the U.S., it's funny she didn't dive deeper into the American environmental factors, the level of marketing thrown at us daily to consume unhealthy but cheap meals. Along with the horrible work/life balance exacerbating our mental illnesses, and our car dependency essentially creating our sedentary life style.

[@mmutants116]

unfortunately it's a very "radical" perspective to cover given the current social climate regarding those things... they tend to be reduced to a culture war hot topic rather than a simple acknowledgement of factors to consider so it becomes "safest" not to cover it i assume. i definitely agree with all of these factors you mentioned, especially the car dependency-- it's all very frustrating to see all of this get consistently brushed over in mainstream media. just because it is the norm doesn't mean it isn't causing significant issues

[@juanmacias5922]

@@mmutants116 exactly, and I understand the backlash she would have received had she taken my train of thought to its logical conclusion, I just find it disingenuous to not mention the root causes. Same thing with so many American made issues (guns is another great example) that many developed nations don't deal with.

[@juanmacias5922]

@@guff9567 low effort trolling gets ignored.

[@osvaldoguzmannunez6629]

She does not have to cover the whole picture, just adding a point to the discussion is what rigorous scientist do. Also, she is talking from neuroscience not social sciences or other discipline. I agree with your point but this is not a policial or ‘talk show presentation’ that has to cover all points at once

[@juanmacias5922]

@@osvaldoguzmannunez6629 I see your point, but in a neuroscience view the simplest changes are the ones that stick, and if you have to battle your environment day in, day out, that's a lot of wasted mental effort. Hence why addicts don't live with their vice, and if you want to diet you remove cookies from your cabinets. We could be getting exercise just from commuting to work if we could walk/bike/bus/tram/train there, or when we drop by to a grocery shop on the way home from said work, or even more exciting, on our way to the local "third place" (which car centric America has essentially destroyed). Now instead of cutting out specific 30 mins of suffering daily, which would you rather do, get your exercise daily without thinking, or planning to suffer in the gym?

[@akula9713]

High weight, high blood pressure. High weight higher risk of cancer.

[@AngieStonesPhD]

Why are we listening to a research which is so old. I thought we (at Academia) should not be presenting research more than 5 years old. This research may not be applicable today. Very disappointed.

[@SuperZardo]

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[@kashmirha]

What? 5 years old is old research? What nonsense is this?

[@chazlon5061]

If research is no longer good after 5 years it might as well never be any good

[@AngieStonesPhD]

@@chazlon5061 The point is to present the latest data.

[@isa-manuelaalbrecht2951]

Propaganda for *oversecurized- please don't think on your own* habitus?!¿

[@EurithraPDaley]

Is low-carbing an impossible "diet" or a sustainable healthy habit? "Hint": Many diabetics follow it year in and year out, while others don't.🤔

[@mario97br]

With enough discipline it is possible to maintain over a long Period of time. But that's the main issue with overweight anyway, a lack of discipline and an abundance of easy, positive feelings in the form of sweet, sweet food. It doesn't hurt you emotionally, is always available and works more reliable than the drugs from next door. Or you spend 1-2 hours a day cooking and preparing healthy foods, which don't give you the same amount of instant satisfaction, but change your existence in the long run.

[@theWinterWalker]

I'm autistic ADHD have had an ED since i was 9. You can dress us monkeys up but we're still monkeys. The civilized LARP isn't fun anymore and we're not "𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮" civilized anyway. tlDR can we please drop the pretense, it's working against us.

[@axispacsquare2096]

Picking up good habits and giving up bad ones easier than dieting? I'd like to see some evidence for that claim As to the last example of walking for half an hour, the issue is not once you start walking, but actually starting the walk in the first place. So saying "you only have to fight it for half an hour" just totally misses the mark.

[@Suitswonderland]

If overweight people would address the weak mental state they have and the lack of wanting too actually change as soon as they realise they are faced with hard work for this change too occur and they give up getting fatter and blaming the world for the fatness the accumulate. You have fat people telling fat people its hard too lose weight, its hard too keep it off, and everyone is doing it wrong, when yeah its easy too lose a bunch of weight really quick and then keep it off forever, but it requires a strong mind and the will too do what you dislike for a greater gain.

[@juanmacias5922]

You should take that super human mental prowess of yours, and learn some grammar, at least differentiate from "to", and "too".

[@NoNameArtist89]

Sir or Madam, I don't understand your sentences. They start with "if" but there is no "then" following.