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A depressing but eye-opening study has found that more and more overweight Americans are not even trying to lose weight, while separate research has warned of the dangers of the typical US diet.

Everyone knows that dieting sucks. None of us would choose to replace burgers with salads, but theres no other option is there?

Well, it would seem that for many Americans there is an alternative to the misery of healthy eating letting yourself go.

The percentage of Americans who are overweight or obese continues to steadily grow and is now at 66%, but possibly more importantly those who are out of shape are becoming less and less likely to try and do anything about it.

Research from Georgia Southern Universitys College of Public Health published in the Journal of the American Medical Associationhas revealed some worrying stats from the Nutrition Examination Survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Between 1988 and 1994, 56% of overweight or obese people reported trying to lose weight in the previous year, but from 2009 to 2014, just 49% tried to shed some pounds.

The effect was most striking in black women, where back in the early 90s around 66% of overweight or obese women had dieted. But the most recent survey found just 55% were now making any effort to diet.

Researchers suggested that Americas "socially acceptable body weight is increasing"or put simply that "fat has become the new normal,"pointing to a recent study which found that people are less likely to consider themselves overweight than ever before even if they are.

Another possibility is that Americans are starting to understand that yo-yo dieting (and also yo-yo exercising) in fact leads to greater damage in the long term, but on the whole it would appear that the overweight US has given up.

The study authors wrote: The longer adults live with obesity, the less they may be willing to attempt weight loss, in particular if they had attempted weight loss multiple times without success.

But in a timely reminder of why giving up isnt a good plan, another paper in the Journal of the American Medical Associationreveals.

that nearly half of U.S. deaths from heart disease, stroke and diabetes can be blamed at least in part on diet.

Of the 700,000 American deaths in 2012 from the three deadly conditions, about 45% were attributed to eating bad foods, such as bacon, hot dogs and red meat.

So it really isnt a smart option to simply do nothing, however tempting it is. And it is really very tempting.

Is there a better way to associate diet with health (rather than vanity) so that people take it more seriously?

Within five years of having lost weight, 95% of dieters will regain all of it and most people will put a little extra weight on in addition.

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