[admin]

Avoid oily fish, cut out all dairy foods, use more supplements: it's the kind of advice that flies in the face of conventional thinking on healthy eating. Yet, amazingly, this is what I was told to do to improve my health by so-called 'dietary experts' on the internet.

Type 'dietary advice' into Google and you are offered 110,000 sites in the UK alone.

There are many sites which claim they can help improve health and reduce weight without ever having met their client and possibly without having any relevant qualifications.

Misleading: The advice offered by some online diets flies in the face of conventional thinking on healthy eating

Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... erous.html

[TotalFitPT]

This is why so many people are confused when it comes to dieting.

There are millions of articles on weight loss do's and don't's dotted around the internet and the first thing people do nowadays when they are looking to lose weight is search the internet!

I certainly hope this forum starts to build up rapidly because if I can help people lose weight correctly, safely and effectively then I will have achieved what I set out to do when I became a PT and a Nutritionist.

Now is the time to start changing the shape of the UK, I don't mean geographically I mean physically as human beings.

It is estimated that 17 million people are overweight in the UK alone as of january 2010. That puts an extreme amount of pressure on the NHS because being overweight brings with it so many other health issues.

The funny thing is, as a nation we are the first to complain about how bad the NHS is! Yet if we stood back and took a look at ourselves, we are in fact the ones who are causing it by our choices of lifestyle.

I don't mean to be harsh and it's not meant maliciously but it has to be said in order for people to realise that they can do something about this and we can actually start to turn things around, maybe not in our lifetime but for my children, your children, their children.

It's never too late!

[Daisydixon]

Hi,

Yes the NHS does spend an inordinate amount of money on self inflicted illness brought on by poor lifestyle choices should as excesses of alcohol, smoking, drug use and obesity. And yes it's really scary what the future holds for our kids/grandkids. Life expectancy is going to be reduced for so many if the obesity issue isn't tackled.