Author: Nada Assaf Slaibi Brand: NADA ASSAF SLAIBI Author: Nada Assaf Slaibi Brand: NADA ASSAF SLAIBI If you could pick a single nutrition-related word that's completely abused, it would be "diet". Everyone is rightfully sick of recommendations for the best diet, or how to diet, or how not to diet. The word is exhausting, and though it brings different thoughts to mind for every person, undoubtedly most of those thoughts are negative. Could a word be more misused or overused? Why not use the word "nutrition"? "Diet" is supposed to mean "the kinds of foods that a person, animal, or community habitually eats" and/or "a special course of food to which one restricts oneself, either for weight loss or for medical reasons". This means that even if you hate the word, you can't escape it. Whether you're an intuitive eater or frantically crash dieting, you're on a diet. Many of the articles deal with how habitual diets have changed for the better or worse, while others deal with the act or performance of dieting. With this framework, diet is a more appropriate word than "nutrition" or "food." . . . For instance, eggs are in, then they are gone, and now they are back, same thing with butter. They said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and then they advise to skip it!!! Where is the truth behind all this? Natural and balanced nutrition, supported by true evidence and studies, should always lead the way.