Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionists and dietitians from nutritional weight and wellness.

We explain the connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned for practical real life solutions for healthier living through real food nutrition.

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proving welcome to dishing of nutrition this is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness

and happy new year it is the new year this is the first show and the first podcast, if you're listening to the podcast, for the year 2020.

So, of course, we knew that our show had to have the topic with a weight loss success story for the new year.

Today, almost three quarters of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. Most of these adults have

been doing things like counting calories, counting points. Sadly, people are more overweight than they

were before they started dieting with that type of approach, with that low fat, low calorie,

point counting approach.

So no wonder that several books have been written about how diets don't work.

And we do.

We agree with those authors.

So this morning we're going to be sharing our real food approach to weight loss.

And the majority of people in the U.S., really, here's the top, here's the title of

our show today, stop dieting to lose weight. Since the early 1950s, we have just been inundated

with this information to eat low fat foods, count calories, eat low calorie.

And, you know, dieters are always told to kind of follow this approach.

And it's really lacking, it's, first of all, it's lacking in key nutrients.

And for a lot of people, it can be like a starvation plan.

So how did that work out?

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