If you’re of the nearly 45 million other Americans who plan to go on a diet sometime this year, how do you know which one is right? They all seem so different, and seem to conflict with each other. The solution is to diet smarter and stop comparing the difference it diet strategies and start comparing similarities.
For this approach examine the diet plans that you’re considering and base your meals around foods that are generally agreed upon as safe and avoid the foods that are generally agreed upon as off limits. This alone will determine approximately 80% of your food choices. What remains becomes much simpler to sort out.
To help out this article compared about 14 popular diet plans and strategies and put together the following list.
Safe:
- Fruits
- Vegetables
- Lean meats
- Healthy plant oils
- Whole grains
Avoid
- White refined sugar
- High fructose corn syrup
- Processed grains- white flour, white rice, ect.
- Processed grain products—breads, pastas, ect.
- Processed foods
- Processed meats—pre-packaged lunch meats, pepperoni, ect.
- Saturated fats
- Trans Fats
- Additional sodium
This may not surprise you, and why should it? These are the fail safe guidelines that dieters have been following for years.
Using this information you can begin to answer much simpler questions. “Should I limit my dairy intake?” or “Should I include eggs?” These simple questions will be easier to research and more importantly easier to try and rule out or incorporate on your own.
When compairing the 14 diets this list of tips were also consistant.
- Track your nutrients
- Use organic when possible
- No processed foods
- Go for whole grains
- Look up the Glycemic index
However when figuring out what is best for you, please consult your doctor before starting any diet.
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