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

There are menu planning services online that do your meal planning for you. You get a week’s worth of recipes and a corresponding grocery shopping list in your email. All you have to do is click and print – and head to the store. Eating healthier just got a lot easier. Plus, planning your meals saves you from those last minute trips to the fast food joints, which definitely add up in cost.

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.

Antioxidant vitamins that are found in vegetables are a must. Scientists are learning more and more how important it is that our diets contain a full spectrum of vitamins, proteins, minerals and acids. If your diet cuts out most grains and vegetables, you should be replacing the nutrients you miss out on with supplementary vitamin A, C, B (all the B's), E and K. You should also supplement your intake of folic acid, and if you're not significant amount of your protein from fish products, you'll need omega 3 fatty acids found in fish oil, shellfish and flaxseed oil.