Healthy Diet:

There are two eternal truths about diets: One, if properly followed they will result in weight loss; and two, most people will cheat.
Only an iron will, an in-house nutritionist or numbed taste buds can guarantee a successful diet. But this isn't just a question of discipline. It's also boredom, timing and preconditioning. For example, an athlete accustomed to consuming large amounts of food will find it hard to reduce his or her caloric intake when no longer in training. Even if the foods are tasty--the Atkins diet actually encourages people to eat bacon and butter--people will hunger for the forbidden.

The reason is that many diets are too restrictive and are not designed to be sustained over time. For example, go to a spa, drink lots of water, go for hikes, do yoga, eat 1,000 calories a day and lose weight. Within a short time of coming home, though, the weight that had been lost, like the prodigal son, has now returned.

Many diet books offer the same kind of planned obsolescence. Spas want people to come back. So do most diet programs and low-calorie foodmakers. The last thing these companies want is for people to get so thin they won't need them anymore.

Diets are, after all, a business--and a staggering successful one. In 2005, according to Tampa, Fla., market research company Marketdata Enterprises, Americans spent more than $48.6 billion trying to diet. That is up 47% from 1989.

The key to losing weight is not through quick fixes and fancy spas, no matter how much we may enjoy them, but rather it's taking a more sensible and long-term approach that balances diet with lifestyle. Lifestyle is very important. You have to think about what it encompasses, like exercising and taking the time to actually enjoy meals.

Organic lifestyle and eating has also taken its place among popular diets. Few nutritionists would dispute that an organic diet is beneficial to health--not only is it more nutrient-dense, but also it is free of chemicals and additives--but there is one problem. Although many people consider organic to be synonymous with guilt-free, it doesn't mean organic food won't cause weight gain. It's a common misconception that food allowed in any diet can be eaten in abundance, when on the contrary, eating too much of anything, organic or not, is a surefire way to get fat.
Eat as much as you want as long as it's healthy.

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