| There are, we all know, certain foods groups that | | | | may lose weight and temporarily feel better on |
| are good for the human body. Many modern | | | | such a diet, it is not going to work in the long |
| dietary and healthy eating regimes, particularly | | | | term. |
| those endorsed by celebrities, will tell us to cut | | | | Did you know that the human digestive system |
| out one particular food group in favor of another. | | | | gets its energy from carbohydrates? Or that |
| The most famous example of this, of course, is | | | | certain fats are necessary to sustain a decent |
| the Atkins Diet, which encouraged followers to | | | | level of human function? What about calories - the |
| abandon carbohydrates wherever possible and | | | | dieting industry would have you believe calories |
| focus instead on ingesting protein. The diet (which | | | | are the more enemy - and their vital role in |
| masqueraded as a healthy eating plan) had many | | | | breaking down sugars and providing energy |
| followers, people queuing up to endorse its | | | | throughout the day? |
| benefits and show off their new slimmer figures | | | | Eliminate one of these food groups, and you have |
| and healthier bodies. | | | | eliminated the benefits that that food group has. |
| Yet this kind of eating and dieting is not good for | | | | This is why the phrase 'balanced diet' has become |
| the body long term. The reason the food groups | | | | so important, to those who want to genuinely |
| exist is because the human body needs to take | | | | change their eating habits for healthy reasons - |
| nutrients from them all, not just one. If, in the | | | | not quickly lose a few pounds so they fit in to a |
| case of the Atkins diet, one merely dismisses | | | | party dress. There is a tendency to associate |
| carbohydrates as 'evil' and protein as 'good', you | | | | weight loss with health, but that definitely is not |
| are not actually doing yourself any favors at all. | | | | the case. For a truly healthy body, your diet must |
| Diets and eating plans like this may have taught | | | | be balanced. |
| the populace to believe that certain food groups | | | | That means - shock horror! - that no food group |
| are 'bad', and should be avoided at all costs. | | | | is 'evil'. Your diet should include a mixture of all |
| Carbohydrates were the victim of the Atkins diet, | | | | groups, eaten in moderation, and mixed together |
| while less extreme examples include eating plans | | | | to create a total way of eating that provides all |
| professing to be "no fat" or "no calorie". While you | | | | the energy and nutrients that your body needs. |