An article in Shape magazine about the book Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us by Matt Fitzgerald that I have already told you about here points the finger at fashion diets, more and more absurd but above all more and more limiting. If you have spent hours or days researching to find the perfect diet , if after a week or two of dieting you get discouraged by the results and change your regimen to another diet, if every bell in terms of nutrition and healthy weight is good for you. you, regardless of who he is and the actual reasonableness of his theses, then it is appropriate that you stop for a moment to reflect.

Are you sure that these diets are educating you on proper nutrition?

According to the author of the book, an American nutritionist and coach, those who follow a diet immediately get hooked and adopt it as if it were a new religion, rather than a food plan. Diet affects our social life , our bank account, even our sentimental and emotional life, as well as making us think about food most of the time : how much to weigh it, how to combine it, what to eat, what not.
So what to do? Adjusting to the extra pounds? No, but at least don’t chase the myth of the perfect diet. Everyone has an idea of ​​what healthy eating is, all the rest are fairy tales: more fruit and vegetables, oil instead of other fats, smaller portions, lots of movement. In short, the secret to losing weight is always the old story. Shortcuts don’t exist. Worse, they risk giving us little results and brainwashing us.