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  The word “diet” has many negative connotations associated with it. When you think “diet” the first thing that probably comes to mind is being miserably hungry, eating foods you find tasteless and unappetizing and gaining back the weight you lose when you’re finished. If you think of this when the word ‘diet’ is mentioned you may have to start by learning the basics of nutrition before you can successfully change your eating habits.
  It is almost always going to be better for you if you change the overall way you eat and maintain it for a lifetime. Even though being on a short-term “diet” is not the best method to achieve your goals they can be useful and even necessary in some situations.
  You could use the short-term diets to help you achieve extraordinary goals related to aesthetics or athletic completion. This being said, a lifetime healthy nutrition plan is always going to be superior to even the best diets you come across in your lifetime.
  Sometimes it takes a little jump start to get you going with healthy eating habits. If you remain in decent shape most of the time, dieting can be helpful for short term goals such as toning up for a beach vacation.
  However, you do not want to get in a situation where you have to lose a bunch of weight in a short period of time. Even if you use one of the best diets out there, there is no real instant result diet so to speak, and in fact, many that claim to give you super fast weight loss results are actually unhealthy ways to lose weight.
  There are many diets out there. Some of the best diets are backed by clinical studies which they were based on. Others are based on the opinion of either an expert nutritionist / dietician or a self-proclaimed expert in nutrition.
  There are even some diets based on celebrities such as Oprah and how she lost 5 pounds. Do you really think what helped Oprah lose 5 pounds is going to help you?
  It is hard to know which diet is best for you because everybody has a different metabolism, food likes and dislikes, schedule and behavior patterns. There is really no way to see if a diet will work for you unless you try.
  You can find diet advice everywhere but some people are definitely better than others for good advice.
  The American Dietetics Association (ADA) defines a Registered Dietitian (RD) as, “a food and nutrition expert who has met the minimum academic and professional requirements to qualify for the credential RD.”