"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
...
> I've been on this earth some time, and seen several diet fads:
>
>
> 1. Reduce sugar. I think that there was good dietary advice to cut
> down
> on "sweets". Of course, most desserts get most of their calories
> from
> fat, but since "sweets" usually have less food value than other
> foods, it
> makes sense to cut down on "sweets" first. That's a real easy way
> to
> figure out how to reduce calories. Unfortunately, people got real
> weird
> about this. You would hear people refer to the "good and healthy"
> breakfast they had. Three eggs, three pieces of bacon, greasy
> potatoes,
> toast with butter and coffee with heavy cream. The healthy part?
> They
> replaced the one teaspoon of sugar in their coffee with a
> substitute.
> Savings? 18 calories!
>
> 2. Reduce fat. Fine, but when you look at how people did it, they
> always
> added even more sugar to compensate. And then the food people made
> zero
> fat foods by reducing the portion size and reducing fat to 1/2 gram,
> which
> they could advertise as zero. Of course, people would eat 5-6
> portions at
> time, since the portion size was ridiculous.
>
> 3. Reduce carbs. I don't understand this one too well, but
> certainly
> people who consume 7 portions of carb in a meal aren't doing well.
> But
> now you hear of people consuming enormous portions of meat and fat
> and
> calling it a "good diet".
>
>
> So, what do you folks think the next fad will be, or will we just
> start
> the cycle over again? Low moisture? I had an office partner who
> always
> went pee right before getting weighed at the doctor. A pint of pee
> weighs
> a pound. That's a pound weight loss in less than a minute!
>
> --
> Dan Abel
> Sonoma State University
> AIS
>
I recommend the lite beer diet. Drink a 12-pack of lite beer (about
1200 calories) and pass out. No hunger pains, all natural, and the
kidneys get a workout.
I'm kidding, of course - I happened to remember that from an old B.C.
cartoon from way back. IMHO, there's no substitute for moderation in
everything, including portion size, and regular exercise.
--
"Life is hard. Life is harder when
you're stupid". - John Wayne
"Politics is war without bloodshed while
war is politics with bloodshed" - Mao Zedong
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