Remember when I told you ages ago that you are better off reading the 'serious' news too? Well, browsing through CNN online, I've noticed a great special report about health and dieting. It offers great dieting tips and interesting reading for anyone concerned about a healthier lifestyle.

I was pleasantly surprised with Create-a-plate interactive calorie counter, which beats searching through labels and reading the small print any time. You just put down everything you had to eat so far and it gives you the exact calorie count, with grams of fat, carbs, sodium etc. What a great way to keep your calorie limit and to find out can you afford one more Chocolate chip cookie. I also calculated my worst over-eating day, and was shocked how much fat my body had to process!

When you're done with that, you might want to check out the Dieting war strategy, a dieting article written by David E. Williams. He points out that you should give in to win the battle with weight, and supports his arguments with statements from nutritional experts.

A celery stick isn't going to work if what you really want is a bag of potato chips., says Jane Kirby in her Dieting for dummies book. Finally someone who understands us!

Williams stresses that you shouldn't stuff your face with a half-pound chocolate, instead we should take only a smallest possible portion of our craving and really enjoy it. This sounds easier said than done, but the rest of the article offers some great helping advice even I can follow through.

The last thing I wanted to get your attention to is the Popular Diet Gallery, where you can see all the downsides of today's fad diets. Maybe you'll be surprised as much as I was to find out that the raw food diet was the one to stay away from.