Weight Loss Hate Loss

Have you tried the Cabbage diet: eat as much cabbage as you like with no limits? How about the Egg diet: half a dozen eggs ingested daily in whatever manner best suits your lifestyle.

Then you have the esoteric combination diets which taste worse than they sound; apricot and avocado, spinach and grapefruit; what about the ever pleasant water and watercress diet? All the fun of dysentery minus the remnants of your daily intake of vitamins and minerals.

Fatter folks are palmed ‘diet sheets’ daily from people who’ve never lost more than a pound of fat in their lives. Each week offers a brand-new awe-inspired detox solution discovered by African tribesmen three thousand years ago, yet only introduced to the west of Europe in this past month.

Inevitably, there’s always a piece missing from this ‘diet hint’ equation: that is, I don’t actually need yet another dieting miracle solution; because it’s not a miracle solution at all, it’s the same lazy, marketing-spun information that everyone’s heard for years – avoid the cake, cookies, refined sugars and ice cream. Now go sell your snake oil elsewhere.

#005 – No longer given nutritionally suspect dieting advice

Image: Marta Rostek