Simple Diet Plans are the Easiest Diet Plans

Here's an overview of the foods that are doing some of the most damage in most American diets. The three whites: sugar, salt, and flour should be avoided, along with many tens of thousands of other things. If you focus on what you should eat and drink such as water, it makes a healthy diet a whole lot easier. Here's more from Fox --

SEATTLE - Right now, one in three Americans is overweight, but a new study says that all Americans will be overweight in 40 years. Billions of dollars are spent each year on diet foods. But some choices are better than others.

"There's never going to be one particular food that's marketed to help you lose weight that's going to do it," said Dr. Ann Kulze, nutrition and wellness expert. Low-calorie frozen meals are usually a good choice, but not always. "Avoid the great white hazards, these refined carbs, white flour, white rice, white potatoes, sugar," Kulze said.

Another diet food loser is the liquid lunch. "Liquid calories simply do not suppress the human appetite to the same degree of solid food calories," Kulze said. Low-carb foods? Proceed with caution.

"Just because something is labeled low-carb does not mean it's going to be low in calories or even healthy for you," Kulze said. Fat-free foods have also lost steam. "The only fat-free food I recommend to anyone -- people that want to lose weight or people that are healthy weight -- is fat-free milk," she said.

Bottom line: You can take the guess work out of your diet if you just start by focusing on the obvious. Most people should increase the amount of fruits and vegetables in their daily diet because according to statistics, the average American consumes less than half of what they need per day. Second, just don't drink anything with sugar in it. Period. That will eliminate a lot of un-healthy calories if you consider that most have high-fructose corn syrup as their main source of sugar. Start with those two things and you can get more than 75% of the way to your weight loss goal. I recommend that you focus on healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle, and let your body's weight take care of itself...which it will!