Why, suddenly, has healthy, good-for-your-body food become known as "diet food"?
Question:
I can't order a salad with fat-free dressing without my friends sitting there, trying to tell me I shouldn't be dieting. Maybe I don't want to order the hamburger with french fries that isn't good for my body, has probably 1000+ calories, and has almost no nutritional value.
The organic food aisles in grocery stores are almost always empty, while you are in TRAFFIC-like situations in the bulk food section.
The only healthy meal items are always named "fat free", "low calorie", and "low carb."
Are there any other things you've noticed?
What is your opinion on this topic?
Answers:
People are rude. They have no reason to stick their noses into another person's business. Giving weight loss advice (or anti-weight loss advice) is impolite at best, and can be considered harassment or even a verbal attack, yet people think they have the right to do it, no matter what anyone's feelings might be.
Tell them to mind their own business, and not to speak to you about diet (in either the sense of what a person eats, or in the 'reducing diet' sense), as it's not a public debate topic.
But you have fallen for a common myth, by believing that a salad with nonfat dressing is 'healthy' - it might have few calories, but if you don't consume enough calories, you die, how 'healthy' is that? The dressing's also loaded with sugar or high fructose corn syrup (have you read the labels of any dressings lately?), does anyone consider that stuff 'healthy' nowadays? Also, a salad that's mostly lettuce has few vitamins, minerals, or anything else that's considered 'nutritional,' if there's some carrot or beets, of other nutrition-intensive stuff in there, it's slightly better, but otherwise, it's mostly water, not even a lot of fiber.
We're all on a 'diet.' 'Diet' means the food you eat. We all eat food. We're not all on 'reducing diets' or 'weight loss diets,' and whether we are or are not should not be a topic of conversation, it's someone's own personal business, unless advice is requested.
when it has "diet" in the title it sells. seems like everybody is overweight all of a sudden. they are just cashing in.
All food is diet food, it just depends on whether it's a healthy diet or not. There's such a thing as a "junk food diet", as well. Be careful of low calorie items, they are not always the healthiest choices. You should be looking for foods with the fewest "ingredients", then they will be closer to what your body can process efficiently.
I know its like totel crap why does it always have to be fat free or low carb like the other day i was in line at the store and i had all healthy food and the cashier says you dont need to lose wieght and i just dont get it a person cant eat healthy without people thinking they think there fat if you want to talk more on this isue email me at gogirlgo1222@yahoo.com
truely home grown foods and your own grown meats.is the heathest.and it is a market for this .people are trying to eat healthly at a cost and not undertanding it is every day food they already have in there homes.it could be the portions are made for them as far as diet.but that about it.
A possible reason is that big compannies like COCA COLA or whatever apply htere "healthier" version as diet so modern people are familiar with "diet" being good. Then other companies took the same path thinking people would be more familiar with it
Ask the people in the Marketing Department. It sells!
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