Eating For Health

Who hasn’t heard people talking about losing weight.   As I noted in a recent blog, a guy on Twitter went to his doctor and the doctor said his BMI was too high and he needed to lose 67 pounds.   Now, that is a challenge.   What weight loss diet should this guy chose to go on?   What are some healthy choices that will help him lose weight but not cut out food groups or nutrients needed for good health?   What diet will help him not only lose weight but keep it off because the diet emphasizes lifestyle changes and adopting good habits? Anyone can go on a diet and lose some weight.   But often people choose a fad diet that may result in some weight loss but then they give up on it and many gain the weight back.   What most people want is to lose weight and keep it off.   This requires more than a diet, but lifestyle changes like more exercise and more healthy foods.   A relative gained some weight over the holidays.   Rather than going o...

Every year for the past 5 years, US News and World Reports ranks the best diets ( Best Diets 2015 ).   They gather a panel of diet and nutrition experts and they rate various diets on areas of: ease in following diets ability to produce long-term and short term weight loss how nutritionally complete the diet is  safety of the diet       if the diet has the potential to prevent diabetes, heart disease or helps manage these diseases            What are the Best Diets Overall?      DASH diet – this diet was originally developed for high blood pressure and the acronym stands for D ietary A pproaches to S top H ypertension.   But it is also a nutritionally complete diet, very safe, helps prevent and control diabetes, supports healthy hearts.     TLC Diet – stands for Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes and was created by the National Institutes of Health. ...