The Weekday Diet

Diet is surely one of the most contradictory subjects in our lives today. Conflicting messages from the media, manufacturers, lobby groups and other 'experts' abound. The only thing they agree on...is that they disagree!

Sheena is the author, with her husband, Peter, of The Weekday Diet published by Penguin in Australia in 2003. In this book Sheena explains how important it is to develop strategies for eating that are sustainable and not to adopt 'crash-diet' approaches to eating that lead inevitably to re-bound weight gain when the diet is over.

The 5 days on, 2 days off approach is supported by a food planner that uses a range of factors (including good/bad fat content, fibre, GI, vitamin/minerals and protein content) to ensure that while you are losing weight you are simultaneously IMPROVING your health - unlike many other diets which suggest a radical focus on one food group (ie protein) or food strategy to achieve weight loss.

And of course, nutrition isn't just about losing weight. Improving your nutrition is a key element of almost every naturopathic treatment for health disorders - be it by directly increasing or decreasing key vitamins and minerals, or by improving, for example, the health of the digestive tract so that the body is better able to absorb the nutrients it needs and filter out the ones that it does not require.