In the quest for a better body, the battle of the bulge, comes yet another quick fix diet book based on short term weight loss through high protein meals.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s (CSIRO) Total Wellbeing Diet book entered the Australian market over a year ago and topped the best seller’s list, dazzling the public with “scientifically proven” research.
Claiming to be not just a weight loss program, but also a diet plan for lifelong eating, the CSIRO
Total Wellbeing Diet has been criticised for a number of reasons.
The diet recommends 300 grams of meat per day of which is about double the quantity of meat recommended by other calorie controlled diets, not to mention the Australian government’s own recommendation of consumption of 65 to 100 grams of meat three to four times per week.
But before even looking at the health ramifications of eating meat to an even lesser degree, it is most interestingly noted that the Meat and Livestock Industry and Dairy Australia funded the CSIRO’s diet book.
No surprise then that beef, lamb, veal and dairy products all play a huge part in the make up of this meal plan.
Nutritionists Rosemary Stanton and Gyorgy Scrinis publicly criticised the CSIRO of prostituting itself to Australia’s meat and dairy industries suggesting the science the diet is based on to be less than credible.
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