When All Other Answers Fail

Perhaps you should look at the obvious one.

Instead of eating in ways that stress our body, we should eat in ways that are healthy.  Our diet-obsessed culture has spawned eating disorders and new and exciting health problems because it relies too heavily on what we don't eat.  It escalates it to delicious forbidden fruit as well as deprives us of a diverse diet.

Here is a really good article about looking at food from a healthy perspective, not just trying to lose weight.  It sums up something my physical therapist told me once.  If you eat like a 200 pound person, you will be a 200 pound person.  If you eat like a 150 pound person, your body will follow suit.  Then he asked me why I was working so hard to maintain my then 275 pound status, and I realized that's what I was doing.  I was actually putting effort into keeping my body the way I hated it.  Now I have a healthy relationship with fruits, vegetables, and working different foods into my diet.  I have a healthy relationship with my body too, and have seen amazing improvements in my diabetes and blood pressure.

This article is dead on.  Being thin and being healthy are not necessarily related.

Perhaps the biggest misconception is that as long as you lose weight, it doesn’t matter what you eat. But it does. Yet being thin and being healthy are not at all the same thing. Being overweight is not necessarily linked with disease or premature death. What you eat affects which diseases you may develop, regardless of whether you’re thin or fat. Some diets that may help you lose weight may be harmful to your health over time.

A widely publicized study earlier this year showed that a low-carb Atkins-type diet might be a faster way to lose weight. That may have given many people the idea that eating meat and butter is the route to thinness and thus health.