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Based on the popular book, “French Women Don’t Get Fat,” the so-called French Don’t Diet Plan emphasizes that it’s OK — in fact, it is essential — to love yourself and to love good food and wine. Natural, whole foods are the key to keeping you slim as opposed to the processed foods and artificial sweeteners that Americans are addicted to. The book and the website offer meal plans, recipes and suggested shopping lists. The website includes an online community where you can ask questions and get support from others who appreciate good food and who are trying to eat healthfully, too. The French Don't Diet plan takes a more laissez-faire attitude towards dieting, billing itself as a “non-diet” diet plan and emphasizing the importance of “balancing indulgences with compensations” as the website says. You can start by buying the book, but the website-based diet plan allows you to sign up for one month or three months of customized, but flexible meal plans plus tips for how to adopt a hea...

With seemingly endless amount of diets in the world, it all boils down to only three principal types of them: limiting calories, fats, or carbohydrates. Which one is best for you? Generally, limiting calories is a very beneficial approach, health benefits-wise. It also requires self-discipline, so the best results are achieved with programs offering planning, support, and psychological services, online or offline. Limiting fats works well for physically very active people, not obese, and spending high amounts energy including calories from food carbohydrates. For obese people and those with insulin resistance, the best way of eating is limiting their carbohydrate total intake and/or the kind of carbs in their foods (complex versus simple, fast absorbing versus slowly absorbing).