Dietas doidas / Crazy Diets

Hoje deixarei aqui um artigo em ingles.
O motivo e’ tratar-se duma resposta ao artigo que a Erin escreveu sobre dietas e peso.
http://braingoo.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/ice-cream-is-my-friend/

Hi Erin.

I’m a Food Technologist and I hold a PG in Hospitality Management (including restaurants), meaning “food is my thing” – well, just one of them actually…

I have to say that I’m always troubled when people star to write apologetically about “being fat without guilt” or, conversely, “aiming to size zero”.

Another very common mistake is to come up with a “single type of food diet” – like the one you mentioned.

Science doesn’t support any of the 3 above approaches.

I always amazed how much science is disregarded, especially Nutrition.
Everyone things it can have “its own opinion” about the matter, regardless of what we, food scientists, say.
Actually, is extremely frustrating to be one, because nobody cares with whatever we say.
Worse, if a “TV hotshot” endorses some kind of diet or lifestyle that person is considered more knowledgeable than we are!
Even if it doesn’t have any kind of degree, which is more often than not.

To keep it short I’ll tell 8 very simple rules:

use the BMI to access your weight;
eat as much variety of foods as possible;
scrap junk food;
scrap salt;
scrap sweets;
scrap sugar;
scrap so-called “light” or “low-fat” processed foods;
do exercise.

Regards and be healthy.