Fad diets don't help in long run

      Many celebrities have cashed in on the public by selling and promoting diet books.
      No matter what their approach to eating is, the public snatches up these books, looking for a miracle cure for weight loss. The newest celebrities to make money off this trend are promoting a diet that's been around for years and involves eating little carbohydrates and plenty of fat.
      I recently caught an episode of "Larry King Live" on which a well-known celebrity was promoting her diet and cookbooks. She stated that the reason Americans are overweight is due to our over-consumption of sugar, not fat. I was just as shocked as King to hear this preposterous statement.
      King himself has suffered from heart problems and has been on a very strict low-fat diet. Of course, he was wondering why this celebrity was telling him the exact opposite advice of that given by his doctors.
      Any diet that is high in fat is unhealthy. There is no special way of combining foods that causes fat ingested to release built-up fat deposits.
      Those who are on this diet fool themselves into thinking sugar and carbohydrates are the reason they have struggled with their weight. Like the Atkin's diet, these celebrity diets do work temporarily but the overall program does not promote a healthy lifestyle.
      Food combining has been around for years but its merit has yet to be proven. Eating a high protein meal for lunch and then eating your carbohydrates for dinner simply places your awareness on what you are eating.
      When following these diets, your carbohydrate intake level is restricted so severely that you are bound to lose weight because your daily calorie intake is lower.
      These diets also use the insulin/glycemic index around which to base the program. With the huge popularity of a "sugar-blasting" diet book, many are looking to cash in on people's fear of sugar.