DR. JAY LIPOFF: Eat This. Don’t Eat That.

 

 

There are 150 pages on dieting, weight loss and exercising in my book I will try to compile summaries of it over the next few weeks to help you put the pieces together. I am going to discuss dieting and deception first and then weight issues in our country next week. After that, I will try to condense my tips for successful weight loss, so you can jump start your New Year’s resolution for a healthier you in 2012.

 

I know you’re confused. How could you not be? Eat this. Don’t eat that. Eggs are good, then bad, and now good again. How many times have you heard not to eat fat? And then someone says it is okay to eat fats and proteins, but skip the carbohydrates. Too much protein is bad for your kidneys. Eat more protein to burn more calories. Don’t eat at all. Suppress your diet with this pill. Eat seven times a day to fuel your body.

 

Tell me what I can pop to allow me to eat the same junk food I always have and get lean. How about a pill that replaces exercising? The acai berry is a miracle berry. Nope. It’s just another over-hyped fruit you haven’t heard of before for moneymaking purposes. If it sound too good to be true, then it probably is.

 

Of course the public is scratching their head. Every three months there is a new fad diet or exercise promising to shed fat so you can get that “lean, sexy body you’ve always wanted.” The media loves how thin the Hollywood women and other famous people are and too often put them on our TV screens to admire.

 

These skinny icons are glorified and hailed as such beauties, like the models in Europe. Except finally people are beginning to realize how unhealthy this is for them, especially after several actresses had health problems and some models even died due to complications from Anorexia. In fact, Europe was banning emaciated models. One restaurant offered free meals to models as a joke.

 

Because models have to remain so thin they have mastered unhealthy eating practices. The more magazines and news stories that promote these “skeletons,” the more our young accept the misconception that skin and bones is healthy and an acceptable option. This affects young girls and women everywhere. Even boys feel the pressure to remain skinny. It is not about eating too little or over-eating; it is about learning how to eat right. Anything else is unhealthy.

 

Someone once said to me that dieting is the only sure way to gain five – 10 pounds. Most weight is lost during the first six months of a diet, except 30 plus studies reviewed by the University of California show that after five years almost 70 percent of the people are likely to be heavier than when they started their diet.

 

The public isn’t learning healthy habits. They are looking for the quick fix, resorting to their old habits and putting the weight back on, and then some. Repeatedly attempting to diet stresses the body and can lead to permanent damage to your organs.

 

 

 

Anorexia has stricken many Hollywood girls. Too many young actresses have made the headlines for extreme and sudden weight loss. In the blink of an eye they literally and figuratively become half the woman they used to be. They proclaim they have been working out and eating right, on