Many diets often use bogus guidelines for measuring overall effectiveness

Do newer, faddish diets take some basic nutritional science to prove their collective points about why they are the best 'new' diet? Well, diet plans and authors have been doing that for decades, and what's to stop newer diets from doing the same thing?

The Atkin's Diet, South Beach Diet, Ornish Diet and others appear to some to use selective nutrition facts to promote themselves. Well, that's marketing. Any diet comes down to balance -- with carbs, fat, meat, veggies, grains, sugar and everything else.

If you look at it, a diet is something that needs to be personable to your metabolism and (in the future) genetic makeup. But for now, these "one size fits all" are the best the market has to offer. I personally can't wait for the future of nutrition, but we're just not there yet.