Golden Rule of Health

Moderation: New diet promotes the golden rule of health


After weeks of partying and indulging in holiday feasts, it’s time to diet—again.


On regular days we somehow manage to stick to a moderate eating habit, and then completely let go of it once the holiday season sets in.

Now that the banquets and drinking sprees are over, it’s time to face the mirror and count the ways to shed off those unwanted pounds. Again.

As always, diet and exercise is the healthiest weight-loss combination. But because not everyone can afford—time or money-wise—to engage in a regular exercise routine, others resort to dieting alone.

In dieting, any legitimate weight-loss doctor will advise that moderation is the key to healthy eating, and ultimately, a healthy weight.
The right diet means not depriving yourself of the foods you want to eat but merely controlling your portions.
By trying everything in moderate amounts, from all the food groups—meat, fish, poultry, dairy, vegetables, fruits and whole grains—you not just get all the essential nutrients for your body. You manage to keep your desired weight as well.

This golden rule in dieting will not be found in any diet book or fad that have made people only unhealthier over the past several years—until the Sonoma Diet came this month.

Developed by Dr. Connie Guttersen, the Sonoma Diet is based on the eating lifestyles of people in the Mediterranean and Sonoma Valley in California. It holds the promise of teaching a healthy way to lose weight—using food variety and moderation in its core principles.

Guttersen’s book, The Sonoma Diet: Enjoy Foods with Flavor. Lose Weight for Life, was released by Meredith Books right on time—just when people are at the height of their postholiday health and weight worries.

And the good news is the diet seems to provide a healthy outlook on dieting. No all-meat, low-carb regimens. No raw-food only meals. No deprivation and no starvation.

All food groups are incorporated into the diet, and you may even dine with wine!

By TERRIE B. FUCANAN