Doctors often recommend special diets for one simple reason: eating right can cure that which ails you. Eating right is the most reliable way to ensure your body gets what it needs to function properly. Eating right is so important in fact, that right now there are special diets that have been designed for adults, children, the elderly, infants and even animals.
When most people hear the term special diets, they immediately react by thinking there is a need to lose weight. While its true that many diets have been created for the sole purpose of helping to lose weight, what many people dont realize is that lots of people, whether overweight nor not, benefit from being on some type of diet.
With the way life is today, its difficult to find time to eat right. Most of us grab our meals at the nearest take-out fast food restaurant and eat while traveling from one location to the next. Many others skip meals entirely. Sitting down to eat in restaurants is no better with serving sizes double and even triple what they should be. Even worse is that so many restaurant foods, especially the ones that taste so good, are loaded with saturated fats that harm the body in ways...