{"id":48637,"date":"2026-04-12T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48637"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:32:07","slug":"new-research-flips-what-we-thought-we-knew-about-yo-yo-dieting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48637","title":{"rendered":"New research flips what we thought we knew about yo-yo dieting"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Talk about the ups and downs of dieting.<\/p>\n

Yo-yo dieting, a common pattern<\/a> where people restrict calories to lose weight, then slip back into old eating habits before starting the cycle over again, has often been linked to more weight gain.<\/p>\n

But new research has turned the belief that this much-criticized diet habit is bad for you on its head, finding it may not be as bad as once thought.<\/p>\n