There was an article on the news last night about the Atkins diet being so successful it was causing problems for potato farmers!
It's not a diet I'd risk, since rice and pasta are important (though admittedly incomplete) sources of protein, but upping the ratio of fresh fruit and veg to "normal" food is generally a good idea, even for people not actively seeking to lose weight.
A lot of these "special" diets claim to make it easy to lose weight, eradicating the need for scales, or difficult adding-up, or that sort of thing. In my experience, unless I'm actually committed to it, not even an easy diet will work, so it's best just to go with the sensible menu-planning and calorie-counting scheme when necessary.
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Date: July 11th, 2003 09:13 am (UTC)From:It's not a diet I'd risk, since rice and pasta are important (though admittedly incomplete) sources of protein, but upping the ratio of fresh fruit and veg to "normal" food is generally a good idea, even for people not actively seeking to lose weight.
A lot of these "special" diets claim to make it easy to lose weight, eradicating the need for scales, or difficult adding-up, or that sort of thing. In my experience, unless I'm actually committed to it, not even an easy diet will work, so it's best just to go with the sensible menu-planning and calorie-counting scheme when necessary.