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.

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Jim Foster (Editor)

"I once paid both a nutritionist and a fitness instructor good money for advice. The nutritionist simply repeated (in parrot-like fashion) the nutritional advice of the day. It didn't really work for me and I continued to have hypoglycemic problems until I figured it out for myself. Diet and nutrition is an active science - it's always changing."

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. Presently, Dr. Iadonisi enjoys his days as a full-time instructor for Andover College in Portland, Maine.

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

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.

Ali Hale

Ali compensates for her chocolate obssession with a disconcerting love for salads and cycling (albeit not simultaneously). She writes for The Office Diet, a website of ideas, tips, hints and recipes for busy desk-bound workers. 

J. M. Graham (“Crabby McSlacker”)

Ms. Graham is a writer with a special interest in health and fitness.  She does not believe in “quick” or “easy” solutions to the challenges of healthy living.  She makes herself eat her lean protein and whole grains and vegetables, and she works out.  But she has also been known to sit on the couch and enjoy a cupcake or two.  Her alter-ego, Crabby McSlacker, hosts a grumpy health blog called Cranky Fitness

Scott Bird

Scott Bird is a writer, photographer and lover of all things involving the throwing around of heavy objects. He can usually be found in the kitchen stuffing his face, outdoors scaring small children (otherwise known as working out in the local park) or at his strength training site Straight to the Bar.

» See all of Scott's articles.

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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