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Eat This Not That Diet

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Child development experts suggest that to allow your child some autonomy, you should offer choices in everything - two outfits, two toys and the choice between two healthy food choices. The goal is for them to learn to weigh their options and learn to choose what is most beneficial to them. They will learn to pick their favorite sweatshirt, their favorite toy and the food that repels them the least. Then we grow up and we can eat whatever we want and that healthy food choice stuff goes right out the proverbial window. Cookies for breakfast, yes ma'am, I can, I am an adult. Just watch me stuff them in. Of course, then we realize that we are big, fat adults and so we turn to someone to teach us how to make healthy food choices, or at least healthier food choices all over again. Back to toddler hood we go.

David Zinczenko, the Editor in Chief of Men's Health Magazine and Matt Goulding, the Food and Nutrition Expert at the same magazine - together, have given us the Eat This, Not That diet and book, which they say will help you to lose weight by making smarter food choices. The book is divided in half - one side shows what you should be eating (eat this) instead of the worse choice on the other side (not that).

Granted, at times the two choices are not the healthiest regardless which side of the book spine they fall on, but at least the fellows are being realistic and honest. Come on, no diet book is going to fare very well if it suggests, you eat a cup of steamed carrots instead of glistening, salty and golden perfection French fries, right?

Read This, the Pros
The book offers a listing of the eight super foods that you should eat every single day. None of them wear a cape or have a kick butt alter ego, but here they are: blueberries, black beans, spinach, yogurt, tomatoes, carrots, oats, and walnuts. It also lists the 20 worst foods ever.

There are a lot of foods listed and the calories, carbs, fat, sodium and other numbers are all broken down and listed. This is a helpful book to take with you to a restaurant and the guys have helpfully rated the most popular fast food chains as well, so you can make better choices when you go out to eat.

Not that, the Cons There is a lot of misleading information in the book including a section that suggests that eating the foods on the Eat This side of the book will tone and reshape your body or target belly fat. The experts have repeated it so many times that they are threatening to go door to door to tell everyone individually: no diet or exercise plan can target one particular body part effectively by itself. Weight loss, if there is any to be had, will come from all over your body. However, if you are biggest there, that might be where you notice it first.

Some of the foods that are listed on the "eat this" side are still extremely high in calories, fat and sodium, making them less than healthy choices all around. There are many instances where it is clear that the food being selected is only the slightly lesser of two evils.

While it is great that there are ratings for fast food restaurants based on their "healthier" food choices, the fact is that the book encourages far too many fast food meals as it is, which even when they are not as bad, are still not all that good.

A lot of the information in the book does not have the sheer science to back it up and there is a definite lack of an actual cohesive eating or exercise plan to follow, so it is difficult to estimate what the total calorie count of a typical day would be nor would it be possible to estimate weight loss potential at all.

Interested in the Eat this, not that diet, visit the official website at: http://eatthis.womenshealthmag.com/home

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