Diet Is a Bad Word

Diet is such a bad word

Daphne Sue Wells

Devry University

Diet Is Such a Bad Word

We always hear about it. Eat more vegetables, eat less red meat, eat this, and do not eat that. It is a tedious cycle on what we should and should not eat. The evil word that most people dread to hear, DIET! Do not get me wrong, I know that you should eat healthy in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle and avoid obesity as well as other diseases that are linked to obesity, such as diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), or even coronary heart disease. Medical care costs associated with obesity is on the rise. In 2008, the costs totaled about $147 billion (Finkelstein, 2009).

Today, everywhere you turn there is a nutritional guide for what you eat including your fast food orders. There are new diets that pop up that may end up as a type of diet that has failure. Different types of exercises are also showing up, such as Zumba hitting it big with dancing to fast-paced music yet you do lose weight. There are also boot camps that people are signing up for to hopefully be able to lose weight quickly but it does not help if the person is not willing to make other life style changes. We all should be entitled to what we want to eat, just need to know how to eat and how much are the key bases to actual being healthy and to avoid such a demeaning four letter word.

Problems

One of the main problems about eating healthy is not just about dieting, but it is about portion control. Why settle to a fad diet that says you need to avoid certain types of food, yet still count the calories you are eating throughout the day. Watching the calories is important if you want to lose weight as you have to be able to burn off as much as you intake. The government does not try to push diet, much less the word, out to the public but concentrates more where it really should be, on portion sizes. There is nothing in there that really says you need to follow a specific diet. Learn to eat correctly...