Fast and furious diet tips

This is the time of year that articles aplenty will appear about how to really get serious about dieting in the new year. I offer an example. This article tries to scare us straight, as the expert quoted uses the gimmick of equating food with physical activity. Nutrition expert Charles Stuart Platkin, author of "The Diet Detective's Count Down," list scores of foods and how much running, walking or yoga it would take to burn them off.
"That glazed Krispy Kreme is less tempting when you know you have to add almost an hour of walking to counteract it," the reporter suggests. Platkin advocates keeping a food journal, noting Americans "wildly underestimate" how much food we eat. Gee, maybe we are eating 5 a Day, after all. Except we don't cheat with celery sticks.