Failed Dieting As A Cause Of Illness And Death

Failed dieters are known to regain any weight they have lost and then some [i].

The result is that failed dieters weigh more than when they started, i.e., their post-failed diet BMI is higher.

This increases their likelihood of developing certain bad illnesses that are associated with suffering and death. [ii], [iii]

Diets only work when a dieter is voluntarily willing to consume fewer Calories than are burned long enough to lose the desired amount of weight.

Because dieting is a voluntary act, most people are unwilling to sustain starvation long enough to shed the pounds.

The more difficult the diet, the less likely it is that a person can succeed at it.

Oprah’s experts, especially Mehmet Oz, recommend starvation dieting.

This almost guarantees failure and worsening of the failed dieter’s health.

Worsening someone’s health and increasing their likelihood of developing bad illnesses that cause death is a way of killing them.

It is nutritional homicide.

Oprah is involved in this on a grand scale as her hand-picked weight loss experts, if bestselling books are an indication, influence the behaviors of many people.


[i] Keys A, Brozek J, Henschel A, Mickelsen O, Taylor HL. The Biology of Human Starvation. Minneapolis, MN: The University of Minnesota Press 1950:819-853, 880-918 and 1132.

[ii] Executive summary of the clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults. Arch Intern Med. 1998, 158:1855.

[iii] McArdle WD, Katch FI, Katch VL. Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance (5th Ed.). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins 2001:755.