Diet Plans Comparison
First, I want to explain that the diet plans I speak of here are not related to "dieting" in the sense of weight loss. The discussions on this website are about diet as a way of eating over a life time. Rather than scientific or unscientific (as we have today) opinion, I believe that time and tradition are a better guide to what is healthy for you to eat. Human beings have been eating simple whole, nutrient dense foods for millions of years. The human race has survived because of the vibrant health these kinds of basic foods support. Only in the past hundred years or so, through the modern industrialization of food processing and the increase in genetic and chemical pollutants, have the diseases associated with diet become rampant in human populations.
There are two main types of diets which are discussed in detail in America. Both have elements which support the idea of a simple, whole food way of eating.- The first is the low fat diet which is heavily promoted by the medical community, the American Heart Association, the USDA Food Pyramid, the American Dietetic Association and other national health agencies. This is the diet that the American public has been told to follow for the last 40 years. While whole foods in the forms of vegetables and fruits are advocated, trying to avoid fat is a prescription for eating lots of chemicals and preservatives in the form of "low fat" processed foods. Big food companies make millions each year churning out new fat-free, "heart healthy" foods.
- The second is the much maligned low carbohydrate diet. A low carb diet is essentially a whole foods diet. In following this plan, you can easily avoid foods which have been compromised by chemicals and additives. It's not difficult to figure out why this diet plan is so controversial. The food manufacturers and chemical companies can't make any money from natural, whole foods. And the medical community, dietitians and the national health agencies wouldn't be in business if the American public weren't so sick from eating processed, nutrient poor diets.
Examples of a low carb diet include:
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by Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades.