Diet Recommendations

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But proper diet means much more than just maintaining your ideal weight. Along with regular exercise, your diet is the key to promoting good health and preventing disease.

While many details yet remain to be understood about the link between diet and disease, the broad outlines are clearly in place. Unfortunately, they are too often obscured by fad diets, which tend to confuse people and overwhelm them with competing advice.

Central to the recent diet debate is the controversy concerning the appropriate role of carbohydrates, fat and protein in a healthy weight-loss program. Three popular diets in particular—the Atkins Diet®, the Power Protein Diet®, and the Zone Diet®—all recommend increasing protein and fat intake, while decreasing carbohydrates—an approach not generally endorsed by medical authorities, but one which yields short-term weight-loss for many people.

Given their results, even the most health-conscious consumer may find it frustrating to counter the validity of these fad diets. Each side in the diet debate attempts to bolster its claims by invoking issues such as the glycemic index, insulin resistance and hormone homeostasis. Without the technical background needed to critically evaluate such complicated and often contradictory claims, many people have simply given up on maintaining a healthy diet.

Fortunately, the principles of good nutrition are not so complex. And with a little background, you can easily apply them in your kitchen.

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