PUBLIC MARKS from mimieganz with tags "diet plan" & "diet food"

Why are fad diets so popular? Diets feed our need to be actively doing something. Weighing, measuring, counting whether its calories, exchanges or carbs all give us the feeling of gaining control over our bodies and our weight. In the long run, though, all the measuring and obsession with what, how much and when we eat becomes overwhelming. When we stop living by strictly controlled guidelines set out by other people the latest diet guru the weight comes back.

Lately, I've been hearing a lot about how wrong for our bodies the current recommendations from our most respected medical institutions are. Well known diet gurus and nutritional researchers have stepped up to the plate to declare that the high carbohydrate, low fat diet regimens recommended by such institutions as the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the United States Department of Agriculture are misinformed, and frankly unhealthy.