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I don't know I agree with this one. In my too-frequent experience, the Poverty Diet works pretty darn well and it does so because after a fairly short time of eating far less because you can't afford to, your stomach compensates and you don't get so hungry so often. And whilst I have no idea whether this makes scientific sense at all, it does seem reasonable that if your stomach isn't distended by repeatedly eating too much, there's less space to fill and less reason to keep being hungry. On the other hand, fiber will swell to four or five times its original size, which suggests to me that repeatedly eating a lot of it would make the stomach stretch, and that would lead to being hungrier more often. And aside from making your stomach larger, does it have much by way of other benefits? I can't say I've ever tried a seriously high fiber diet myself, but I know for sure that it's really easy to lose weight when you're broke! The trouble with just about any advice associated with diets is that there are so many vested interests - not just doctors and scientists trying to sell their wares but medically unqualified so-called nutritional experts, dietitians, the various food industries and their advisers and lobbyists, farmers, food store chains, authors, TV personalities, dieting organizations, fashion designers and the fashion media, the list of interests is extensive. The average person has no way of knowing what's true because he or she simply doesn't have any way of knowing what is sound advice and what is not. And even if that were possible, what happens? Some scientist pops up to demonstrate that the last solution wasn't a solution at all and may even have made matters worse. I doubt you'll find one single dietary concept that someone can't show to be false. Only two diets ever worked for me - the low-food diet, as I've mentioned, and once, the Atkins diet, on which I lost 14lbs without any effort at all, much to my own surprise. And at the time, low-carb meals and recipes were everywhere, the supermarkets had heaps of low-carb ingredients, fast food outlets sold low-carb options, and everyone able to make any money out of it all was doing so. And then what happened? Suddenly it was a bad idea and everyone moved on to something else. I wouldn't be too surprised if the high-fiber idea goes the same way, sooner or later.