To Eat or Not to Eat? That Is the Question
Do I actually have to stop eating at all, to lose some weight? Many people still think that losing weight is about not eating anything tasty for as long as it takes to change the offending number on the scale. A whole industry has grown up around debunking this myth. The limited range of traditional 'diets', those that used to concentrate on what one could not eat, has been replaced by a whole host of 'new-age' diets. Far from discouraging eating, these diets generally concentrate on what you must eat .. if losing weight (and keeping it off) is your goal. The issue with losing weight the 'wrong' way is (and always has been) that starvation type diets can cause the body to lose important nutrients, sometimes in large enough amounts to risk serious illness. Losing weight, the 'right' way (the classic diet insists) involves reducing your carbohydrate and fat intake, whilst increasing your protein intake, so that weight is lost in the form of unwante...