Normally I don’t talk about diet fads, I think eating sensibly and taking exercise are the key changes you need to make in order to lose and then maintain a healthy weight, but I happened to glance at an online article on this new diet, the DASH Diet and I rolled my eyes. Yet another way to lose weight quickly for New Year!
When will we learn that there are no lasting, healthy ‘quick diets’ that work? Almost without exception, when you lose weight quickly, you put it back on within weeks to a couple of months after stopping it.
The DASH Diet is slightly different. DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension and approaches food intake based on nutrients. It promotes calcium, potassium and sodium, as well as proteins and fibre in the hope that this will reduce elevated Blood Pressure, which they feel will lead to a reduction in weight although it is actually the other way around – in losing weight, your BP is likely to come down.
This diet appears to be a well balanced, healthy plan. It encourages eating plenty of fruit and vegetables, fibre and proteins, low fat dairy, whole-grains and nuts/seeds.
There are a few setbacks that those already on the diet reported, the main ones being that this has no pre-prepared foods, there is no point system and buying a large amount of fresh fruits/vegetables can be very expensive.
One more issue was that there were no sweet foods involved but this can actually be bonus. Once you omit sugars from your diet, within a few days, the cravings stop and within a week, you don’t feel like a slave to them.
Here is one of the current publications on this diet:
For once, this seems like sensible advice and a great eating plan for long-term health!
On another note, I have written 3 books. 2 are part of a series set in Scoltand about the Sidhe, fairy folk. Available on kindle and in paperback:
The Island of the Mist is book 2
The Stone in the Sword is book 1
The 3rd book is an adult, sexy witchy werewolf/vampire story set in New York and featuring a strong female lead character, again available in kindle and paperback formats:
The Wolf, the Witch and the Coffin
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