Pop Quiz

These are just a few questions I pulled out of the book You on a Diet by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz. How much do you know? (Answers Below)



1. What is the most reason diets fail?

a. They’re designed so that they’re impossible to stick to long-term.

b. They’re so complicated that you need a math degree to follow them.

c. They are only so many carrot sticks and celery stalks a person can take.

d. Mozarella sticks. Mmmm!



2. Which of the following strategies is most recommended for people trying to lose weight?

a. Weighing yourself once a week.

b. Eating two or three small meals a day.

c. Eating nuts every day.

d. Ex-Lax smoothies for everyone!



3. Which choice is most recommended to cut your appetite?

a. Whole-grain foods.

b. Whole aisles of fruit.

c. Whole lot of diet soda.

d. Whole boxes of Girl Scout Cookies.



4. Of the following choices, which is least dangerous to a long-term waist management strategy?

a. A 1,000 calorie-a-day diet.

b. Higher than usual colonics to remove all fat.

c. Training for a marathon.

d. Playing video games.



5. Calorie for calorie, what fills you up for the longest amount of time?

a. Fat

b. Fiber

c. Fructose

d. French Fries



6. At least how much must you walk daily for optimum waist control?

a. 30 minutes

b. Two hours

c. Any time you can spare.

d. Any, as long as it’s not traveling to and from the fridge.



7. Of the following items, what contributes most to weight gain?

a. Periods of low levels of willpower.

b. Short periods of high-intensity stress.

c. Long periods of low-intensity stress.

d. Periods of high-intensity dessert trays.



8. What is the worst side effect of losing weight?

a. Increased risk of chocolate withdrawal.

b. Increased risk of muscular and joint aches.

c. Increased risk of yo-yo dieting.

d. Increased risk of astronomical tailor bill.



Answers:

1. a. Most diets don’t reprogram you to think and eat automatically, so that eventually you’ll go off the diet just as surely as you went on it.

2. c. Eating a handful of nuts has been shown to help you stay full, while skipping meals can be detrimental because your body will go into a fat-storing starvation mode when it doesn’t have enough calories.

3. a. Whole-grain foods are loaded with filling fiber.

4. d. Playing video games works because it keeps your hands busy, so you can’t eat. (Training for a marathon is actually destructive to your body because of the risk to your joints, and for most people 1,000 calories is dangerously low daily caloric intake. Do we really need to explain colonics?)

5. b. Fiber fills you up. A cup of oatmeal in the morning has been shown to prevent you from afternoon gorging.

6. a. Walk at least 30 minutes – at once or in intervals – every day.

7. c. Chronic stress makes your body store more fat.

8. c. Yo-yo dieting not only has physiological effects, because you end up gaining more weight after you’ve lost it, but it also has psychological effects.