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Why Dieting Is So Hard
Sandra Amit is a neuroscientist who's written about why dieting tends to fail. She says the brain reacts exactly the same way to someone who deliberately loses weight as it does to someone who is starving. Your brain literally thinks you are experiencing a famine and responds accordingly, so that you are actually going to burn fewer calories than normal.
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