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Université de Fribourg

Comment les régimes amaigrissants font grossir : d’une perspective d’autorégulation de la composition corporelle = How dieting makes some fatter: From a perspective of human body composition autoregulation

Dulloo, Abdul G. ; Jacquet, Jean ; Seydoux, Josiane ; Montani, Jean-Pierre

In: Cahiers de Nutrition et de Diététique, 2013, vol. 48, no. 1, p. 15–25

‘Dieting Makes You Fat’ – the title of a book published in 1983 – embodies the notion that dieting to control body weight, with consequential weight cycling, predisposes the individual to acquire even more body fat. While this notion is controversial, its debate underscores the large gap, which exists in our understanding of basic physiological laws, which govern the regulation of human...