¶ … healthy diet" is and what it is not. When using the term "diet" most people instantly think of "weight loss" and deprivation. Many of us know from painful experience that the weight loss accomplished by starving our body is rarely sustained on a long run. We fall back in our old bad eating patterns ending up with more weight than we had when we started "dieting." Few of us know that the word "diet" comes from the Latin word "diaeta" which means "way of living." The report will point out that we need a new nutritional perspective on the way of leaving instead of falling victim to fat diets, such as low-fat, high carbohydrate diets or their counterpart: high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets. The low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet popular among millions of Americans since the 1980s has failed us completely. The low-carbohydrate, high fat diet forms are reportedly more successful....
Nevertheless, today we are the fattest people in the developed world. We are in the midst of a national obesity crisis, and Americans are still getting heavier. Today, about 65% of adults and 15% of children and adolescents in the U.S. are overweight or obese (Klein 1). What I strongly recommend against this epidemic obesity is a balanced diet consisting of all three macronutrients: Protein, carbohydrates and fat. I will show by example of scientific research of the diet that French people live on, that it is possible to become slim and healthy simply by watching portion size and following a balanced diet.
Ever since the surgeon general recommended in 1988 that Americans severely reduce their consumption of fat, especially saturated fat (Eades 5), millions of Americans hopped on this bandwagon in a desperate desire to lose weight. A natural consequence of…
