Consumer Health Digest Does Not Encourage False Habits of Dieting. Learn How?

At some point of our lives we all want to shed those extra pounds in order to fit in our favorite dress or jeans. Also, there are people who want to retain their ideal figure and shape and diets usually seem like a good idea to do that. Nowadays, we are practically swamped by various diets that promise wonderful results. When reading their "benefits" it's, usually, impossible not to feel optimistic and willing to try them out. However, most diets today aren't even good for your health and jumping from one diet onto another is even more damaging than you thought. When browsing various websites hoping to find useful info on losing weight or simply eating healthy, you will find a wide range of tips that encourage false habits of dieting and in turn, your health is severely damaged. On the other hand, Consumerhealthdigest.com doesn't encourage dieting habits, find out how and why below.

While some people think they don't have enough willpower to start with some diet, others do it all the time. You probably know a few people who are constantly on some diet or make some tweaks in their diet by eliminating various food groups. However, although the thought of being on a diet and having great mental strength to undergo it can make the person believe they will achieve desired results, reality isn't that bright.

Traci Mann, Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, has been studying eating habits and dieting for more than 20 years. Together with team of researchers, she analyzed 31 long-term studies about the efficacy of different diets. Most participants in the studies they analyzed were people who are on long-term diets and results of this review were published in the journal American Psychologist.

Findings showed that people on diets typically lose between 5 and 10% of their starting weight in the first six months. However, one third to two thirds of participants regained more weight than they lost within last 5 years.

Additionally, false habits of dieting have health consequences as well. For example, metabolism gets damaged as well as immune system and person becomes prone to various diseases.

The primary mission of ConsumerHealthDigest.com is to provide useful information about healthy lifestyle, which also includes healthy diets. However, it is our obligation to make sure that visitors of the website get accurate info that is based on facts. As you have seen above, constant dieting will simply not work as well as many other bad dieting habits that most people have. Unfortunately, these bad dieting habits were encouraged by "credible" articles published on questionable websites or in magazines and they can significantly deteriorate person's health.

• The key to a healthy life is the equilibrium of healthy diet and exercise. They go hand in hand and the mistake that most people make is choosing one or the other, but never both. For example, some people start a diet but refuse to exercise and vice versa, but this practice doesn't lead to achieving your desired results.

• Completely eliminating certain food groups isn't such a good thing as our body requires variety of nutrients.

• Through our articles and posts we strive to advise our readers that they should incorporate an abundance of fruits and vegetables into their diet. Fruits and veggies are rich in vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that our body needs in order to function properly.

• Eating in moderation is always a key to achieving target weight

• Our nutritionists discuss healthy eating habits and offer valuable tips you can use to improve the way you and your family eat

• On our website you can find special articles dedicated to health benefits of certain foods

• We analyze diets for you – as new popular diets emerge we take it as our responsibility to analyze them and provide detailed information about their program. Most people start with diet without even getting familiarized about all its aspects and it's due to lack of information on various websites. On our page you can find review of such diets and if you're still willing to try them out, you will already know everything about them.

• We encourage you to eat regularly – you have probably read, on more than one occasion, that you should stop eating dinner or breakfast or even lunch in order to lose weight. However, the essential component of losing weight and having healthy eating habits in general is eating regularly, three times a day.

• We believe that healthy diet is a "must" for healthy life

• All diet and nutrition tips are based on results from scientific researches and are written by experts in this niche.

ConsumerHealthDigest.com encourages its readers to introduce healthy diets into their lifestyle in order to lose weight (if needed) or simply to improve overall health. However, CHD doesn't encourage switching from one diet onto another, starving, skipping meals and other bad dieting habits that people usually have.