If they did, we would diet once and that would be that would be that.
We set a new career path, we choose a diet to follow, we make plans to save for retirement, we set a new direction for the management team, or we promise to carefully research our next big purchase.
Before advising people to follow a Mediterranean diet, we need more studies to find out whether the diet itself or other lifestyle factors account for the lower deaths from heart disease.
We need to take the same approach to diet and exercise that we do to vaccine-preventable diseases: encourage and create opportunities for everyone to engage in healthy behaviors.
"That reflects, as indeed many other figures do, the poor diet which we have in Northern Ireland, " she said.
Instead of getting lost in the weeds hunting for clues to a metabolic mystery, perhaps we should think about diet more simply as a public health issue.
While we like the idea of an electronic diet planner that helps us keep the weight off, we're not sure this particular one fits in with our lifestyle.
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Although we can get all the nutrients we need from a regular diet, increasing numbers of consumers are using supplements.
"We are pretty confident that diet has an impact, " says Dr. Peter C.
Overall, I would steer clear of the Paleo diet, but we can take away something from our ancestors by eating foods closer to their natural state (less processed), which are more nutrient-dense and digested more slowly by the body.
With humans, if we get too little sleep, have a poor diet, and take on too much pressure, our stress levels rise and we succumb to ailments our otherwise healthy immune system could easily handle.
We now know more about the diet of this species than any other dinosaur.
We learned a lot about the diet (of the inhabitants), what fish they were eating, what animals they were hunting.
If doctors make more effort "to counsel patients on what a general healthy-eating diet is like, we can get a lot of bang for the buck, " she added.
The singing was for a large part, painfully out of tune and we were fed the usual unhealthy diet of "how to make a Pop Star in 13 weeks".
While this new understanding takes away the illusory comfort of dramatic quick-fix diet-solutions because we now know it is an effort doomed to fail, we gain the comfort reality brings when reality offers viable alternatives.
Then, we all asked more questions about her diet, training schedule and how she felt at the Paralympics in Beijing.
"We're not really sure if diet can cause these acne flares or maybe they just make them more severe, " she says.
We chose DMF because of its natural origin and the fact that we could easily administer it in the diet, but there might be even better candidates for future clinical use.
"We've been eating according to the diet you sent us, " he said.
He says many people now live into their late 80s, and, rather than dreaming of nostrums that may never arrive, we would fare far better by focusing on diet and exercise.
"We do not know enough about the rest of their diet or their activity levels, " he says.
We can argue about whether a change in body weight of a quarter of a pound per year is meaningful and how much faith we can put in these studies of self-reported diet.
My point is not that one breed or one diet is better than another, it is that we have many more options for every taste, and that is a great thing.
That cannot be interpreted in any way as a good reason to think that the result we found is due to not promoting the low-fat diet, but because of the superiority of the Mediterranean diets.
Now if it's a situation where they are just mismanaging their finances, which is most of the time the case, then what we do is we try to put them on some type of a financial diet and get them back on track.
How else would we know what compelling books to read or what latest fitness or diet craze to follow?
"We all need to be moving towards a more plant-based diet, " Giancoli said.
"We would like to reinforce the need for children to have a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle, " he said.
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