10 Worst Diet Mistakes

Here's a list of the "10 Worst Eating Mistakes", as compiled by Nora Gedgaudas from Portland, OR. Many of you have heard me say these same things in the lectures and in person, but she puts a slightly different twist on some of them which is worth noting.

I would like to add a couple of others that aren't mentioned, and make a few addition comments on some of the ones that are:

#11: Using "but I like it" as a justification for eating something.

When told that a certain food is less than constructive, I often receive the response, "but I like it" - as if that were a valid justification for consuming something that will damage your health. All nutritional things being equal, taste is a fine consideration when making food choices. But, as we know, among all processed, packaged, manufactured, and chemically derived food-like substances available, nutrition is rarely equal.

#12: Eating what thin people eat.

This is the flaw in the book "Skinny Bitch" and countless others that claim - indirectly or directly - that being skinny is all that matters. Pointing to food choices that promote weight-loss as evidence that they are healthy is a trap with disastrous results. (similar to #6)

To the comments on the #1 item on Nora's list I would add:

What if a healthy diet were more expensive? Unhealthy food doesn't get any healthier just because it's all we can afford or - in most cases - think it's all we can afford. Good food costs what it costs and there is no alternative. It is still the only thing we should be eating.

Recommended Reading

This is not meant to be a comprehensive list, but rather a short list of 8 high value books that will help change your thinking away from conventional wisdom and toward powerful diet choices that will do far more for you than weight loss. They are also not in any particular order.

1. "Good Calories, Bad Calories", by Gary Taubes
2. "The Cholesterol Myth" and "Fat and Cholesterol Are Good For You", by Uffe Ravnskov
3. "Survival of the Fattest", by Stephen Cunnane
4. "Lights Out! Sleep, Sugar and Survival", by T.S. Wiley and Bent Formby
5. "Protein Power", by Dr. Michael Eades
6. "The Vegetarian Myth", by Lierre Keith
7. "The Biology of Belief", by Bruce Lipton
8. "The Primal Blueprint", by Mark Sisson

For any Type 1 diabetics -
"Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution"