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Health guidelines that won't disappoint
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
If you’ve spent extra time at the market reading nutrition labels to keep your family in good health, put a lot of effort into reforming your eating habits because of warnings from a doctor or health experts, or constantly battled weight gain with low-fat diets because of fear of hereditary conditions, you are certainly not alone.
And if you have hoped that changing your diet alone was enough, you might be among those who now feel confused and discouraged by a report published early this year. A well-designed federal study whose purpose was “to confirm popular hypotheses about the protective effect of [a low-fat] diet” against two types of cancer and heart disease, could not do so (Gina Kolata, “Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds,” The New York Times, February 8, 2006).
This report and others like it may leave us asking, “Now what do I do?” If you seek good health, don’t despair. There are trustworthy answers.
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About the author
Rebecca Odegaard is a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
