Successful dieting demands real food
Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 5:00 pm
OK, you’re “on a diet.” Everyone is on a diet. As a culture, in fact, it has been said that we have a national eating disorder: our obsession with healthy eating.
The person who made this observation was Michael Pollan, the food journalist, activist and author. Pollan is also the author of what is perhaps the best advice on healthy eating: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
By this, he has explained, he means, first, eat “real” food — not any food with more than five ingredients or ingredients that you can’t pronounce, or food that your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize, or food that won’t eventually rot.
Second, make sure that plant matter — fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes — makes up the major part of what you eat. Third, don’t overeat.
This is not very complicated advice. It does not involve combining certain foods, or counting calories, or eating certain things at certain times of day, or avoiding whole categories of foods like fats or carbs.
It doesn’t involve writing anything down, mail-ordering special meals or supplements, or attending meetings.
But simple advice is often the hardest to follow. Which is why a book like “The Fast Metabolism Diet” rocketed to No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list.
The book, written by Haylie Pomroy (described in her press materials as a “celebrity nutritionist”), details a three-phase, 28-day plan that will “turn your body into a fat-burning furnace.”
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