The 'D' Word

Diets, argh, I hate that word.  If I could ban any word from the English language, it would be the word 'diet'.

Why?

Because, time after time, day after day, I hear stories from men and women who are tying themselves up in knots. They are unsure what they should be eating, following the latest fad, generally gaining more and more weight, whilst increasing their stress levels, declining the state of their health and losing more and more confidence in themselves because the latest "fix all diet" hasn't worked. But who do they blame? Certainly not the diet, or the celebrity that sold them the idea.  They blame themselves for being weak and just not good enough.

Diets are everywhere, high carb, low carb, high protein, low protein, low sugar, low fat, juice diets, low calorie, diets with supplements, the cabbage diet, crash diets, detox diets, the list is endless.

STOP!

There are two types of product on your supermarket shelf.

Firstly there is 'food', grown in a field or reared on a farm.  These foods are the 'quiet' products you generally find around the outside of the supermarket.  They often come in their own 'mother nature approved' packaging and have been unprocessed, untainted and unspoilt by man or machine.  Put simply, if you can imagine the item naturally GROWING OR ROAMING, then it is food.

Then there are the 'food-like substitutes'.  This includes everything else in the supermarkets, burgers, nuggets, breakfast cereals, microwave dinners, fast food, ice cream, yoghurt, cakes, spreads, biscuits, juices, basically anything that comes in a colourful packet, with a grand marketing campaign and a label that informs you how great the product is.  This is not food, this is big business, making money, by making you sick.  Basically, if you can't pronounce the name of the ingredients, or can't picture the ingredients in a field, leave it in the supermarket.

In short,

Do eat, a wide variety of food.

Don't eat, food-like substitutes.


Simple.

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