Here is the answer for you unhealthy, obese, disgusting slobs that just can't lose that weight no matter how hard you try.
There are over 30,000 published diets alone. If any one of them actually worked for the long run, there would be no reason for the other 29,999 to exist, nor would there be a new best seller on the shelf every week.
The best advice i have ever got on nutrition was this: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.
This really is difficult for so many of you to grasp, isn't it? It truly, truly is and its a shame really. Eating is the easiest thing you can do. Eating healthy requires discipline, which, judging by the lard of the general public I encounter on a daily basis, suggests it is something not many of you are capable of.
PREVENTION - it is difficult for disease to flourish in an environment that is well nourished. Look at sick people, you can just tell something is not right.
TREATMENT - Patient has a health concern. Patient then goes to his "MD" to find out "whats going on". Dr. diagnoses the patient with a cholesterol issue, patient starts to worry. "It's ok Darryl, we have a number of chemicals to provide you with that will help you manage this. Darryl asks Dr - Do you have any questions regarding my diet? (since nutrition is generally looked at as quackery from conventinal med). Naw, it's mainly genetics anyway. Here, take a new government food pyramid diagram and follow it. The statins will help ya with the rest. If any of you consume soft drinks, fried foods, processed junk foods, sugars, excess sodium.... you should really do some research or take a class. You really are what you eat. Think about it.