I get tired of seeing people caught up in these diet fads that amount to unrealistic starvation and improper nutrition and an absence of physical activity. Unless you seriously get into modern pharmaceuticals (another post) you just can`t sit around and lose weight on diet alone. Not healthfully, at least. It is important to make your diet work for you instead of against you, and one such way is to look for certain power foods I love supplementing my major meals with small snacks that are high in protein, such as yogurt. Yogurt, with its fats and proteins is a good way of both staving off your appetite and improving your probiotic health. However all yogurts are not equal.
This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2009.