Celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Lisa Snowdon reveal the secret to a healthy, slim body and it isn’t by starving yourself. The answer is obvious - Have More Sex. According to Fox,

“The Ultimate Sex Diet: The Secret Formula for a Slimmer, Healthier, More Passionate Life” by Kerry McCosky is due out early next year.

Sandra Bullock recently exclaimed her secret to success was “Mind Blowing Sex.” Could leading a healthy life be correlated with success as well? Absolutely.

Finally, alongside the ability of sex to aid in your diet adventure, it also has several other benefits:

1. Reduced Depression
2. Stronger Heart
3. Improved Immune System
4. Longevity

However, before you start trying to use your new found secret, make sure its consensual!

There are several popular diets today, but they aren’t all necessarily healthy, safe or worth while - even if they are endorsed by celebrities (are they doctors?). I do not recommend the use of any such diets, but learning about them can only help if you consult your physician.

Here are some examples of specific diets currently going around in the media.

The Blood Type Diet:

The principal of this diet is you eat foods based on ones blood type.The theory is based on when the specific blood type evolved.

• “O” type blood should eat high protein and eliminate grains.
• “A”type blood should be a vegetarian.
• “B” type blood should eat various foods. I think this is non sense.

Overall, this diet is nonsense. I have not found any Scientific basis for any of its ideas or values.
Hay Diet:

The essential of the Hay Diet isn’t to roll around in a bale of hay and graze with horses if that was your first thought. The principal behind this diet is to never eat protein and carbs together because our bodies digest them differently. Although it is true -the Enzyme trypsin is secreted by our body to breakdown protein, and the enzyme amylase is secreted to metabolize carbs, the question that remains is whether or not our body can secrete both enzymes at the same time and work effectively alongside one another. I do not have an answer to this, but it is definitely worth further investigation.

The Paleotech Diet:

The Paleotech Diet consists of three snacks and three meals of lean protein such as egg white, chicken and fish, low glycemis index carbs such as whole grains, brown rice, and yams, and Omega 3 found in almonds, walnuts, and salmon. While at the same time, omit caffeine processed foods and sugar completely. This is a balanced diet and consumes foods from all food groups and keeps your metabolism going since you are eating every 3 or four hours.

Zone Diet:

Similar to Atkins, while focusing on the glycemis index, this diet is based on foods with high protein and low carbohydrates. However, this could potentially be dangerous due to the unnecessary strain the excess protein may place on our kidneys.

South Beach Diet:

A good enhancement of Atkins. This diet teaches us the good carbs and the bad carbs. And we should stay away from the bad carbs. This diet is currently being supported by several people, but the best knowledge that can be learned from this diet is the emphasis on the difference between “good” and “bad” carbs.

Soup Diet:

The main purpose of this diet is to consume Cabbage soup. Although Cabbage detoxes our body, how much cabbage soup can one person eat? I get sick after I eat the same thing twice a week. I could never imagine eating the same thing everyday of the week.

The Canadian McDonald’s Website has its very own food calculator. You should check it out if you have not been to it yet. This calculator shows the nutritional value on the entire menu. I’m still amazed at the fact that a meal of a Big Mac, large fries, and a large soda adds up to over 1400 calories. You can take a look at the food calculator here.

I know we all love salad, but the worst part of it is the dressing—it always kills the purpose of trying to eat healthy. Do we all actually take a measuring cup and get the exact serving amount of dressing? Of course not, we pour a ton of it on like normal human beings do. We could be eating 300 calories worth of dressing for all we know. But Wish-bone Salad Spritzers put a stop to this—its spray-bottle form allows us to count the number of calories of dressing we are putting on our salad. Each spray is only one calorie! And get this—each serving size is ten sprays! This means that we can enjoy a salad full of our favorite dressing with only ten calories! And the sprays go a long way—I only needed eight sprays to put on my salad. These Salad Spritzers come in Balsamic Breeze Vinaigrette, Italian Vinaigrette, and Red Wine Mist Vinaigrette.

First things first, cut soda out of your diet. Drinking soda brings in the most unnecessary calories. Trust me, this habit may seem hard to break at first, but when you notice the difference you will not regret it! Drinking water instead of soda is the fastest way to get rid of your water weight, and if you keep this up for a year, you can lose up to twenty five pounds! It is recommended to drink eight glasses of water (four water bottles) daily to keep healthy.