Some people think that selecting a diet is an easy task. And I believe it is, but when others decide for you. That is, in other words, you go to the doctor to get fix, sorry, to get fit.
If you want professional help on deciding what to use as a diet, I will recommend that you put yourself in the hands on a good “Dietitian”. Please note that I said “Dietitian” and not “Nutritionist”. The first one requires a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and dietetics while the later can be achieved without formal qualifications. Is not my intention to degrade nutritionists, as I know that many of them have some kind of degree in nutrition or related fields, is the lack of curriculum standardization that work against them.
Let me give you an example of what a dietitian would do in a hypothetic case:
Patience with a severe case of NAFLD (Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease) walks into our dietitian’s practice and asks for a diet to put him on the right track to lose weight.
Do you think that is a good idea that our dietitian includes fruits as part of the diet?
Why not? Fruits are a common denominator in just about every balanced diet and the fiber would be of great help to our patience.
(imagine the Buzz sound of a wrong answer)
Fruits contains two types of sugar: fructose and sucrose. sucrose can be broken down by just about any cell in our body. In contrast, fructose has to be managed by the liver exclusively. If our patience already has an impaired liver because of NAFLD, adding extra work with fructose process is not doing anyone a favor. Therefore, a dietitian would possibly wait to correct some degree of NAFLD before recommending fruits.
Do you understand? Is not that I am saying that fruits are a bad choice for a healthy diet, only that it may not be the best choice for someone with a condition like NAFLD. And that is a kind of choice that a dietitian would do.
Let me end this post by saying that in my opinion diet is easily 75% part of the formula for health. Yes, I know, exercise is important too, but you simple cannot exercise out a bad diet, you simple can’t. But don’t worry, we don’t plan to only go for the top tier option. Exercise is also part of the solution.
Now let’s go to work! You have a few days to search for diet options. I will do the same and on the next post I will introduce my winner and maybe also the runner-up.
Until our next post and have a good time researching!
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