Diets are not synonymous with 'healthy eating'

Where does this idea come from, that diets promote healthy eating?

When you look at the types of food that you might be encouraged to eat in your common or garden standard deprivation plan, you will often see that it is filled with things like diet coke, low-fat artificially sweetened yogurt, milk with all the goodness skimmed out of it, fake chocolate bars reduced to less than 99 calories, low-fat margarines full of dangerous hydrogenated fats and awful microwaveable meals that my dog has turned her nose up at (when I used to eat them).

This type of eating is about as far removed from 'healthy' as Colleen McLoughlin is from classy. They rarely include a handful of mixed nuts and seeds, healthy servings of avocado, or real butter which is free from harmful trans-fats. Real food - unprocessed and natural - is healthy. Diet food and a tendency to rely on substitute food is not.

While I'm sure the occasional indulgence in diet cola isn't going crash your immune system, for me I just feel yukky if I drink it - like my body deserves so much better!

Comments

[Jomay]

I couldn't agree more! We are filling our bodies with so many chemical, plastic products in our quest for thinness and it's another example of putting being thin before our ultimate health. Also, a lot of these low fat, articficial foods are far from satisfying and we often end up eating the real food we craved in the first place!

[Andrea Wren]

That's exactly it Jomay - the more fake food you eat, the more you crave the real stuff! May as well just eat the real stuff in the first place?!