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Apr 6, 2006 - Linknet Health - by askafriend - All to often, people associate a "diet" with a short term change in eating habits to lose weight. Rather, a diet is what you eat: plain and simple. Quite often people will abruptly change their diet in hopes of shedding a few pounds. This is only a short-term solution, and can be harmful to your long-term health.

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The word "diet" used to refer to your everyday food and drink intake. The FDA has a guideline for what constitutes a “healthy diet” which includes fruits and vegetables, grains, lean meats and low-fat dairy products. But these days, a “diet” has taken on a whole different meaning.

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Quite often, new books are written about recently “discovered” diets that will help you shed weight quickly and effortlessly. Sound too good to be true? That’s because it is.

Think of how long it took you to put on those extra pounds: it should take you about the same time to shed that weight. Yet these ‘get slim quick’ schemes promise results in just days, weeks or months – without you having to do anything. Does that sound right? There used to be a popular saying “nothing worth having is free”. But in this day of instant-gratification, we have duped ourselves into believing that things will be given to us. Most will refuse to believe the harsh reality that you should be wary of anything that promises “immediate results” with little or no effort.

The fact of the matter is that these fad diets rarely tackle the real issue of obesity and weight gain. Many can even lead to long-term health problems. Experts and doctors are constantly stressing a consistent healthy diet and regular exercise is critical in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. But new books by self-proclaimed experts are always coming out telling you that in just days, you can “appear” healthy with doing virtually nothing.

Just as with the ancient Romans, our body types relay a message as to our lifestyle. Where in the ancient times, being "plump" was a sign of wealth, today being slim and fit is supposed to relay a healthy and active lifestyle. Our society has become so obsessed with our appearance showing signs of health that actually being healthy no longer matters.

And that’s really what it comes down to: do you want to appear healthy for a short amount of time or truly be healthy?

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