The Diet Roundabout And How To Overcome It

Diets abound! Everywhere we turn another best-selling, weight busting, body shaping diet is the latest answer to our eating problems. Atkins, Zone, South Beach, low carb, low fat, low protein - if it's possible it has been offered as a solution to our dietary woes. But stop and think for a moment - if any of these diets was "the" solution, why is it that Australia is the second most overweight nation in the world? And indeed why are diseases common to Western nations such as Diabetes type 2 and cardiovascular disease on the rise instead of on the decrease?