What's This All About?

We live in a strange time.

We're fatter than ever - yet popular media is saturated with skinny. Nutritional advice changes every year leaving us bewildered and confused.

How did it get to be so complicated?

Diet Blog is all about filtering the best of diet news and advice - and combining it with real-world application and opinion. The whole spectrum is covered - everything from body image to fast food.

Contributors

Note that contributors' diet reviews may also be published on a diet reference site.

Melanie Thomassian (Editor)

Melanie Thomassian is a registered dietitian and health writer who is determined to convince the world that being fit and healthy doesn't require some fad diet or weight loss gimmick. She is extremely passionate about helping others to succeed, and also authors the website Dietriffic.com.

Mike Howard

Mike has worked in the fitness industry for over a decade - as a Personal Trainer, lecturer and author. He is passionate about teaching and helping people succeed in adopting healthy lifestyles.

Dr Carmin Iadonisi

With over 15 years experience in the health and nutrition fields - Dr Iadonisi is a licensed naturopathic physician who maintains a private nutrition practice in Rhode Island.  His background includes a Bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology with over 7 years experience as a personal trainer.

"My diet philosophy is centered on eating foods 'as close to nature as possible' – in another words- eating a balanced whole foods diet."

Ali Hale

Ali compensates for her chocolate obsession with a disconcerting love for salads and cycling (albeit not simultaneously). She’s interested in how staying fit and healthy helps people get the most out of life – a topic she writes about on her blog, Aliventures.

Gerald "Gerry" Pugliese

Gerry is your typical yoga practicing, no pizza or meat eating Italian guy from New Jersey. Seriously, his family still isn’t speaking to him. Professionally, Gerry writes for Every Diet and Organic Authority.

The Premise

The basis of weight management is good nutrition and exercise. But that is so simplistic that it's almost patronising. As an "instant-gratification" society it's no wonder we reach for every quick fix we can find. When the quick-fixes fail - opinions get cynical, self-image can plummet, and many people begin a vicious cycle of loss and re-gain.

Different things work for different people. Nutrition is individualistic. It's easy to criticize everything except that which worked for me - but that's not particularly helpful.

Eating healthily, and learning to use the best of the nutritional advice that's out there is a good thing. Falling into disordered/obsessional eating is not a good thing. The concept of dieting is not a good thing (going on and off diets all the time).

"The best diet is the one you don't know you're on." - B. Wansink

The Disclaimer

Please read our medical disclaimer.

History

Diet-Blog was orginally established in 2003 by Dane Carlson.

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