Essay - Eating for Good Health - Safe Weight Loss Versus Fad...

Eating for Good Health - Safe Weight Loss Versus Fad Dieting

***** paper explores the need ***** safe weight loss and healthy eating, as opposed to the fad diets often featured on televisi*****, in newspapers and ***** magazines. For the purposes of this paper, ***** eating is defined according to the st*****ards set out by the US government in its 2000 guidelines on nutrition.

Eating for Good Health - Safe Weight Loss Versus ***** Dieting

The diet industry globally makes millions of dollars each year. Brands such ***** Slim-Fast, Slimmers World and Weight Watchers are household names through***** the world ***** a new diet craze surfaces every few months, helped along by media coverage and the cult of celebrity as A-list stars and lesser mortals in the public eye rush to promote themselves as perfect beings with lifestyles worth emulating. The latest figures published ***** the US government show a rising incidence ***** weight problems in the USA with 31 per cent of adults now cl*****sed as obese, along with almost 15 per cent of those aged between six and 19, plus 10 per ***** of preschool children. It is clear from such statistics that there is a strong need ***** *****dvice to Americans on weight ***** and healthy ***** if the grow*****g problem of over***** is to be turned around for our future health. Excess weight not only harms ***** individual, putting them at risk of many different life-threatening conditions, but also costs the healthcare system dear. In the UK, for example, ***** has been talk in ***** media of refus*****g ***** treat smokers and the ********** since their risk of developing health problems is higher ***** waiting l*****ts ***** operations are a major issue that has tripped up successive **********.

When considering the subject of ***** dieting, we should first look at wh***** constitutes a *****y diet. A healthy diet can be defined as a balanced diet ***** sufficient nutrients to maintain good health (and a stable *****ight). In this paper we will follow the definition for a b*****lanced diet ***** set out in the guide Nutrition and Health: Dietary Guidel*****es for *****mericans. For the purposes of ***** paper, ***** will define ***** ********** as fashionable dietary regimes that promote weight loss rather than moderate, balanced eating for good *****. We will focus on two c*****trasting approaches to reducing diets in particular: the diet plans devised by Dr Robert Atkins, which focus on reducing carbohydrate intake; and the programs ***** by ***** gurus such as Dr Dean Ornish in ***** USA and Rosemary Conley in the UK, which ***** on an ultra-low fat intake as the best way ***** lose weight. We ***** compare and contrast *****se weight-***** strategies and examine the evidence ***** and against these approaches to reduction dieting.

***** examining safe weight loss, it is necessary to look at how the government ********** being overweight and ***** in ***** ***** mentioned above - and how healthy (or unhealthy) weight ***** measured. Body mass index (BMI)