Food is not your friend. Stop saying it is. Stop saying that you eat to be comforted by a dependable friend. Food is not, I repeat, not your friend.

Food is fuel for your physical body. Food can taste delicious. Food can satisfy physical hunger. Food is a reason to get together with friends, but food is not one of the friends.

A Food and Drug Administration panel unanimously rejected a weight-loss drug from Sanofi-Aventis, on concerns the drug increases the number of psychiatric events like depression and suicidal thinking among users.

A diet of low fat low carb foods can be suitable for people of all ages. Consuming low fat low carb foods can decrease the chance of heart and liver disease, and force the body to use fat stores as a source of energy. Low fat low carb foods, therefore, can help you lose weight faster.

A diet of low fat low carb foods, however, should be supplemented by increased water intake, since the amount of proteins in the diet will rise considerably. Increased protein consumption can tax on the kidneys, so you may need to drink liquids constantly to flush the toxins out.

When I first learned about the raw food diet, it took me years to figure out how to do it properly. Then it took me even more years - making mistakes and compromising my health - until I started experiencing the benefits I was looking for from the start!

Let's face it, if you're going to bother changing your diet at all, there's got to be a reason for doing it. I would bet you want to improve your health and energy, right?