Our bad diets cause numerous personal problems. If you're young the list of problems bad diet brings will include mostly psychological issues:

Low self esteem, occasional off-days, compulsive eating habits after diets, uncertainty over boyfriends/girlfriends, physical embarrassment, fatigue, and even hyperactivity

If you're older that list starts to take on a more clinical nature:

Depression, indigestion, bloating and irritable bowel, gastritis, diabetes, high blood pressure, raised cholesterol, chronic fatigue

When ill-effects are a consequence of food there's hardly anywhere to turn for comfort.

Here at My Diet Friends we have some ideas about how to resolve weight and health problems and coincidentally they take less from the natural world than our curent eating patterns do. We're not doctors. We're able to convey our experiences. But we're equally keen to point people in other directions. There are links here to many diets. Our own experiences might help, though,so we're going to set them out in this section.

We're calling this The Core Diet because we believe the best way to diet is to learn a core set of skills. Those skills include: empowerment, understanding taste better so that you can enjoy a wider range of foods, learning how to cook a core set of meals that can help rescue your diet, re-equipping your kitchen, learning to listen to your body, developing core sets of exercise principles, and eating well without marginalising yourself around friends because of your weird or wacky diet.

We also call it the Core Diet because you can deploy those ideas while you're following a GI or GL diet, South Beach or many more diets. The Core Diet is a place to come back to and a reference point.

Pick up on The Core Diet here: Our Diet Plan.