I am here to present a situation about health books and fad diet books. Here is the problem I see: If all diet books are to be treated equally, then we have a big problem. Most of them give conflicting advice to other books I read, so I get to the point where I do not know what to eat. One book says this is bad, while the other says that same food item is good. My approach to this is to take the concepts from these books that are consistent in all of the books, or at least most of them, and go from there. For example:
- No processed foods
- More vegetables and some fruits
- More water
- Less cooked food
- Less sugar
- Organic produce is better
- 4-6 meals a day vs. 3
- Some others I cannot recall at this time
I guess you could call this the common thread approach. Look for the common thread throughout and you can be almost completely sure those work. I am not one to put the nutritional experts up on a pedastal as what works for one person certainly may or may not work for another. What I have noticed is cutting out certain foods and relying on the healhty choice vs. the processed choice does work very well. That should be common sense anyway. I guess you can look at diet and lifestyle as common sense anyway. Let me know what you think about all these differing viewpoints and the common threads even the most opposing viewpoints have in common.