Five of the most familiar diet tips are  a favorite  national obsession. I find  anyone to watch  the television or radio, search  online or read  a magazine without finding an advertisement for a weight loss or diet product or an endorsement for a new diet or eating plan. Human would be healthy and look their best, and for possibly the first time in the end  century, those two things happen to coincide.

The common opinion  of beauty is far closer to what’s reasonable by a ‘real’ person than it has been in this century. Regarding  to the today’s  popularity of actresses and singers who aren’t rail thin, dress  hangers are out and healthy muscles and are in. Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s start this article off right. You are not ‘going on a diet’. Our concept of ‘a diet’ implies a temporary change that will work miracles - if we’re only strong enough to stick to it. That way of thinking is encouraged by decades of ‘fad diets‘ that promised us quick, low-effort weight loss, if we just ate this one miracle food. I still remember the Cabbage diet, the No-Carb diet and the Banana diet, among others. Over and over throughout the last 40 years, diets that advocated eating by a strictly enforced menu have been proven ineffective, or worse, dangerous. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the dangers of dieting is the ‘diet mentality‘. The constant need to weigh, measure, count and account for food that most dieters feel can become an obsession with food that comes close to that experienced by someone with an eating disorder. Is it possible to lose weight without becoming obsessed with food?

Dr. David Katz, author of “The Way to Eat”, suggests a better way. While it’s important to balance the calories you eat with the calories you burn, he says, it’s not necessary to obsess about food by counting every calorie. Instead, he suggests, focus on eating well for your health and permanent weight loss will follow. Read the rest of this entry »