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But from our perspective, their messy food fight is about more than one group flinging their high carb carob at Atkins’ sausage-n-cheese omelet. It’s about hearing an off-key chorus of competing messages from different camps of experts. In
midst of all this confusion, dietary decisions get left in hands of you and me. We could pick Krispy Kreme diet if we wanted, or low fat, or low carb, and find some scientific validation for any of it.
So what’s sane middle ground? What lies between low fat and low carb? And most importantly, what rational guidance are we supposed to draw upon when planning dinner or a grocery store trip?
The best solution is to step back out of niggling experts and think more intuitively about a healthy lifestyle approach.
For example, browsing through import store this past week, on hunt for a Sake set for a birthday present, one particular set bore a list of ten rules for living. I would love to see these simple maxims advised as basic common sense strategies.
·Eat less sugar, more fruit ·Use little salt, more vinegar ·Put less food in mouth, chew more ·Eat less meat, more vegetables ·It is better to give than to receive ·Control your temper, laugh more often ·Speak fewer words, take more action ·Worry less, get plenty of sleep ·Sit less, walk more ·Wear only as much clothes as you need, bathe often
Rules like these work, have as much to do with your lifestyle as anything else, and ultimately improve your weight and health. The various diet experts may gnash their teeth at some pet idea mislaid, but you and I will find it hard to disagree with such basic common sense.
Dr. Will Clower is the award-winning author of The Fat Fallacy and founder of The PATH Curriculum, The PATH Online, and Newsletter. The PATH: America’s weight solution. Dr. Clower can be reached on his website www.fatfallacy.com.
