Introducing: Losing It
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2022
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
For much of human history, we’ve turned to diets to lose weight and improve our health. But it’s mostly been in vain. Because no matter how much the number on the scale drops, chances are the weight will come back. That’s just what the science says.
But when it comes to our weight, the facts don’t seem to make much difference. Dieting still has a grip on all of us.
Losing It, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis, investigates how we got weight loss so wrong — and whether there’s a better way forward. Losing It launches on July 12. Subscribe to Prognosis today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | You've at least thought about it. |
| 0:05.0 | I'll Google it. |
| 0:07.0 | How many calories is in one egg? |
| 0:09.0 | How many calories is in one slice of turkey bacon? |
| 0:13.0 | More likely than not, you've actually obsessed about it. |
| 0:17.0 | I've always been battling this idea that if I was skinnier, then so many of my problems would go away and I would just be happier. |
| 0:24.6 | There's just one problem. The battle to lose weight, it's a losing battle. There is so much noise going on in their head saying, you shouldn't be eating that. Why are you eating that? You're such a bad person. |
| 0:38.0 | D diets don't really do the thing they're supposed to do. Help people lose weight. In fact, |
| 0:46.9 | trying to lose weight can actually backfire. It can make it harder to keep pounds off. |
| 0:55.0 | I want to be healthy, but for whatever reason my body wants me to get fat again. |
| 0:59.0 | D diets are bad science that we keep falling for, no matter how much they fail us. |
| 1:06.0 | We've spent billions of dollars trying to understand obesity and weight management, and it just |
| 1:13.4 | seems like it's all going into a black hole. |
| 1:15.6 | And the only ones winning are the people selling them. |
| 1:19.7 | They tried noon and I lost 10 pounds, which to me was huge. |
| 1:24.8 | I'm Emma Court, the host of losing it, a new show from Bloomberg's prognosis. |
| 1:31.5 | In this seven-part series, I'm going to tell you all about how we got everything from |
| 1:37.0 | calorie counting to the relationship between weight and health totally wrong. |
| 1:43.1 | We've got this disconnect. |
| 1:44.4 | We think weight is the big issue when it's really not. |
| 1:47.7 | Losing it launches July 12th. |
| 1:50.4 | Subscribe to Prognosis today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, |
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