GARY TAUBES, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Why diets don’t actually work, according to a researcher who has studied them for decades. “Dieting is actually a lot like starving, physically. It’s living like you’re starving. A lot of people do it, but what they’re actually doing is living as if they’re starving. They’re putting their body into that exact same state that it would be in if they were literally starving to death.”