While most diets are designed to deprive people of food they may crave, a new concept has been developed centered on the idea of eating just about whatever you want, within reason.

Billed as Your Final Diet, Dr. Abby Aronowitz has written a book under that title which not only encourages people to change their thinking on dieting, it suggests being a little overweight might be good.

Abby’s diet even has a list of “healthy” junk foods she encourages users of her diet to eat. These snacks include all natural treats such as Garden of Eatin’ Sesame Blues tortilla chips, Smart Food popcorn and Newman’s Own Organics Champion Chip Cookies. These healthy junk foods are higher in protein and fiber and have no artificial chemicals in their ingredients lists. She has said her research at Columbia University showed artificial sweeteners can actually increase appetite. She also suggests ways of using chocolate to suppress an appetite.

Those using Abby’s diet plan learn to manage sugar, carbs and fat intake rather than eliminating them. Dr. Aronowitz has said everybody craves those elements of their diet, and eliminating them only leads to diet failure. This, in turn, can lead to yo-yo dieting and a poor outlook about themselves.

In an interview, Aronowitz said the USDA recommends women should consume about 1,600 calories per day. She encourages her patients to multiply that by seven for a weekly total of about 11,000 calories. Then, her patients are told they can eat just about whatever they want within the 11,000 calories, especially if they eat all natural foods.

Changing the mind set is also important to her plan. Those using her suggestions will be encouraged to ignore pressure to become unrealistically thin, learn being thin doesn’t mean being sexy and become good role models for children to teach them about food selection and positive body image.

Fitness is important too, and not just for thin people. Aronowitz says even those listed as overweight benefit from being more fit.

Dr. Aronowitz believes increased health comes less from worrying about losing weight and more from accepting your actual size, eating better and working on your overall fitness level. This also improves your self-image.

Article from: www.abbysdietsuccess.com

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Nothing beats a hot steaming cup of coffee in the morning. It stimulates the senses and wakens a tired body. It is one of the best ways to start a brand new day. Many people buy the cheap, mass produced coffee from the grocery store, but for only a few bucks more, you can get coffee that is better tasting and organically-grown.

Many of the manufacturing  and growing methods used to make non-organic coffee have been proven to damage the environment, through the use of  pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers that is used throughout the growing process.

In order for organic coffee to claim its title and be sold as “organically-certified” in grocery stores and coffee shops throughout the United States, it has to follow a set of strict guidelines established by the US Department of Agriculture that regulates organic production.

Organic coffee must not use any synthetic pesticides or herbicides and the farmers must also have crop rotation systems in place to prevent soil nutrients from depleting along with sufficient pest control.

Given the nature of the organic coffee production process, its market is steadily climbing in the United States with total sales reaching close to 90 million in 2005, a nearly 50 percent jump from 2004. In addition, organic coffee is being sold by more specialty coffee firms than ever, a testament to its growing popularity.

Organic coffee continues to remain a premium product at, sometimes, extravagant prices. Currently, a 12 oz. bag of dark roasted shade grown, fair-trade organic coffee can climb upwards of $12 at your local grocery store. Light roasted organic coffee goes for about $3 less, depending on where you’re buying it from. Adding to organic coffee’s exclusivity is the size of the world organic coffee market which remains mired at less than 1% in all of the major coffee consuming countries.

Despite its status, organic coffee continues to be diverse, offering products that include coffee sodas, decaffeinated, caffeinated, and flavored coffees. Even though you may spend a few extra bucks, organic coffee is a safe alternative to the mass produced, environmentally unconscious coffees made today.

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Over 50 years have passed since Jacques Cousteau won worldwide acclaim and a Palmed’Or at Cannes for his film The Silent World – one of the few important environmental films ever to come out of France. Now, from director Jean-Paul Jaud comes Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution, a moving testament to one’s community’s fight for safe food production and a healthy diet for our children – and ourselves.

Food Beware begins with a visit to a small village in France, where the town’s mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic and locally grown. It then talks to a wide variety of people with differing perspectives to find common ground – children, parents, teachers, health care workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists, researchers and the victims of illnesses themselves. Revealed in these moving and often surprising conversations are the abuses of the food industry, the competing interests of agribusiness and public health, the challenges and rewards of safe food production, and the practical, sustainable solutions that we can all take part in. Food Beware is food for thought – and a blueprint for a growing revolution.

This eye-opening documentary features interviews with children, parents, teachers, health care workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists, and researchers. Food Beware takes a powerful look at the abuses of the food industry, the challenges and rewards of safe food production, and the practical solutions that everyone can take part in. This remarkable story of one community’s crusade to save their children’s health is both food for thought and a blueprint for a growing revolution.

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