This post is not for a person who has a need for a diet called for by a medical condition.
The background for the post:
It is been the great privilege of this author to have taught "Human Nutrition" for a certain online college in both internet form and "hybrid" form.
This post is not what the author "taught".
It is what the author LEARNED from the students about choosing a diet.
The course itself required that the students individually, and in sub-groups, "critique" a branded diet of choice in terms of whether it "worked", and that then they "recommend" or "not recommend" the diet.
Well, what does it mean to work"?
The students were to critique it from the standpoint of research on the net about how many people said it worked, the medical community's assessment of the goodness or badness of a branded diet.
The students themselves suggested that they might actually "taste" a branded diet of choice.
The denouement of what the students discovered were that "most people quit the diet" in a relatively short or long time...
...........WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS WORKING.
"Most people", it seemed, went "back to what they used to eat".
So what was their conclusion?
a) first check the medical opinions to find one that the medical opinion says actually brings about a loss of weight.
b) check the taste because, it was the opinion of the students that the probably reason that people quit a diet was because of taste.
Most people, certainly this author, did not know that many of the branded diets have a specific flavour.
Examples of this are "South Beach" (from which the "So-Be" drink is derived), Mediterranean, etc.
All of these diets espouse "delicious flavours".
So, what does a "delicious flavour" mean?
It means what the individual likes.
But, even the best "delicious flavour" is usually not completely liked by the user.
The students came to a rather surprising conclusion.
Do NOT just start eating only the diet.
Transition the taste buds to the "new" flavour.
How does one do this?
Pick "some new" foods from the "diet" and eat a few of them and the normal foods one eats.
On a timetable of the choosing of the user, slowly transition from the "old" flavours/foods" to the "new" flavours/foods.
Over several MONTHS slowly change completely to the new diet flavours.
The author's personal experience can attest that this works.
woodsmoke
The background for the post:
It is been the great privilege of this author to have taught "Human Nutrition" for a certain online college in both internet form and "hybrid" form.
This post is not what the author "taught".
It is what the author LEARNED from the students about choosing a diet.
The course itself required that the students individually, and in sub-groups, "critique" a branded diet of choice in terms of whether it "worked", and that then they "recommend" or "not recommend" the diet.
Well, what does it mean to work"?
The students were to critique it from the standpoint of research on the net about how many people said it worked, the medical community's assessment of the goodness or badness of a branded diet.
The students themselves suggested that they might actually "taste" a branded diet of choice.
The denouement of what the students discovered were that "most people quit the diet" in a relatively short or long time...
...........WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS WORKING.
"Most people", it seemed, went "back to what they used to eat".
So what was their conclusion?
a) first check the medical opinions to find one that the medical opinion says actually brings about a loss of weight.
b) check the taste because, it was the opinion of the students that the probably reason that people quit a diet was because of taste.
Most people, certainly this author, did not know that many of the branded diets have a specific flavour.
Examples of this are "South Beach" (from which the "So-Be" drink is derived), Mediterranean, etc.
All of these diets espouse "delicious flavours".
So, what does a "delicious flavour" mean?
It means what the individual likes.
But, even the best "delicious flavour" is usually not completely liked by the user.
The students came to a rather surprising conclusion.
Do NOT just start eating only the diet.
Transition the taste buds to the "new" flavour.
How does one do this?
Pick "some new" foods from the "diet" and eat a few of them and the normal foods one eats.
On a timetable of the choosing of the user, slowly transition from the "old" flavours/foods" to the "new" flavours/foods.
Over several MONTHS slowly change completely to the new diet flavours.
The author's personal experience can attest that this works.
woodsmoke