Dieters finally waking up to good food

What does work, even if you're trying to lose weight, is adding foods to your diet -- fruits and vegetables, lean proteins, nuts, whole grains -- and replacing less nutritious foods with these lighter, healthier choices. Not only can you make some pretty delicious and satisfying meals out of simple, wholesome ingredients, you can also lose weight while enjoying food again. According to the NYT, dieters everywhere are starting to realize this. Good for them, I think. Because as someone who has a dieting history, I can attest -- dieting stinks, and it isn't effective.
The difference between the two approaches, of course, is speed. When a person diets, the weight comes off quickly, though it usually stalls or gets gained back just as fast. The more moderate approach, which puts the emphasis back on enjoying good food, is slower. But it's a lifestyle that can be maintained and enjoyed for life, unlike a diet. And if you've ever taken the weight off once, you know ... you never want to have to do it again.
Over the last few decades, you've probably noticed a shift in your supermarket options. The small-family-run grocery stores of 20 years ago are gone, replaced by sprawling, mall-sized mega-stores carrying a mind-boggling selection of products. 
We know the best power foods are whole foods, like fruits and vegetables jam-packed with nutrition and legumes full of protein and fiber. But it is not always easy to eat whole foods all of the time. Sometimes we crave more convenience, even though the processed foods are usually not as good for us.
Where I live in Canada, we have yet to be exposed to a
When we moved about two years ago, one of the things I mourned the most was the loss of a local Whole Foods market. I just couldn't imagine shopping at a conventional supermarket again, after having so many natural food choices right down the street.
With Whole Foods in the process of buying competitor Wild Oats for more than half a billion bucks, it was quite distressing to see that the CEO of Whole Foods has been accused of being a finance forum lurker who used to routinely trash the company his is now buying.
Don't skip breakfast! You've heard it many times, but somehow life gets in the way and you end up running out the door, breakfast-less once again.
These days, metabolism is a major source of envy for most people. Forget houses, clothes, cars -- many people would rather have the metabolism of Gisele Bundchen than her success in the model ling industry. But what if there was something you could do about you metabolism? Some way you can change the way your body seems to automatically store everything as fat?









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