There are hundreds of weight loss diets out there, ranging from really popular and well know diets such as the Atkins
diet and weight-watchers to just simple general healthy eating plans.

Best health advice is to eat a varied diet, 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day, at least 8 glasses of water and
moderate exercise. All these factors will help you loose weight and keep it off.

Diets change as frequent as the weather and there is always some new miracle cure for excess weight but all they are
is an expensive fad. But you can do these diets by your self without attending meetings and purchasing special recipes
or organic and low fat foods.

Every magazine cover you see these days has titles like “The perfect bikini body in ten days” or “how I shed 6 stone”.
There is so much pressure for people especially woman to loose weight. But weight is also a crucial factor in day to day
life as being vastly overweight (known as obesity) can lead to health problems such as heart disease, diabetes and high
cholesterol.

Quick fix diets such as the Atkins diet which consists of no carbohydrates and high protein foods is extremely dangerous.
These types of weight loss diets are terrible for the body, not only that once the weight is of it is very hard to
keep off. Although these diets are recommended by stars such as models and singers it is not safe to use them.

Weight loss is important but not to the extent of making people have mental illnesses such as bulimia and anorexia,
the stresses put on young females especially in today’s world make them contract eating disorders as they believe they
are too fat. A healthy weight is determined by your weight against your size (known as your BMI, body mass index)
this should be in-between 18.5 and 25 to be deemed as healthy anything above that is overweight, and anything under
that is underweight.

If people stuck to healthy eating and enjoyed an active lifestyle controversial diets would not need to be put under
the spotlight. Weight loss programmes such as weight watchers and the likes are more sensible forms of weight loss.
The weight is lost over a longer period of time and is therefore easier to keep off and a better option of your body.

All in all weight loss diets are a lot more sensible than the new specific diets such as low carbohydrates and high
protein, or low GI diets etc. Everyone should be aiming to have a healthy lifestyle but not at the expense of being
unhappy.