There's a world of diets out there, and one particular strain of eating smart and healthy based on a two-decade study in China has caught a lot of attention during the past 10 years.

Lee Fulkerson's 2011 documentary "Forks Over Knives" has popularized nutritional research and writings, which favor a plant-based diet over one of animal-based and processed foods to avoid or even reverse diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

Dr. T. Colin Campbell, one of the world's premiere nutritionists, and one of the men whose work was focused on in Fulkerson's documentary, will talk about "The Health Care Crisis and Its Missing Link" at 7 p.m. Thursday at Akin Auditorium in Midwestern State University's Hardin Building.

The lecture is part of the 11th annual Speakers and Issues Series, and admission is free. Claudia Montoya, MSU Spanish professor and director of Speakers and Issues, saw the documentary in Dallas in 2011 and it made a very strong impression on her.

MSU screened Fulkerson's documentary Thursday in the Clark Student Center to a very good crowd, Montoya said.

"It shows his (Campbell's) life and the life of another doctor, a heart surgeon, (Caldwell Esselstyn) and how they were doing different studies in their own fields about how your diet affects you. They began to share their research and realized how much nutrition has to do with heart disease."

It is very important to be aware of things like this, Montoya said.

"Dr. Campbell proposes to have a plant-based diet, and that is an excellent idea. But, to follow the program the way he suggests it takes a lot of discipline."

There also is more to the plant-based diet that Campbell suggests than just going to the store and buying vegetables and eating them, she said. "He is very concerned about the production of those vegetables, and he is very much in favor of organic farms."

The idea is to avoid chemical pesticides and fertilizers. "Different studies have shown that those types of chemicals have a very bad impact on your health, long-term," she said.

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Dr. Pierre Dukan

Should teens get extra points for being thin? Dr. Pierre Dukan, theFrench founder of the controversial Dukan Diet, thinks so. The diet guru is now facing an ethics hearing for suggesting that high school students in France be rewarded for not being overweight.

In January, Dukan whose high-protein, low-carb diet is said to be followed by celebrities like Kate Middleton suggestedthat Frances baccalaureate exam, a test that 17-year-olds have to take to finish high school and go onto college, include an anti-obesity option that students may pass by staying within a recommended weight range, the BBC reports.

Health professionals were outraged by the comment, and now the French College of Physicians says Dukan has violated the countrys medical ethics code, which states that a doctor must be aware of the repercussions his views can have on the public. According to the College, Dukans statements could be harmful to girls who are already overweight or are struggling with eating disorders like anorexia.

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Everything about this is wrong, Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center, told ABC News. Its wrong because it invites eating disorders. Its wrong because weight has nothing to do with academic performance and the notion that weight is a behavior that should incentivized is just wrong. Weight is an outcome. We should incentivize things people can control.

In a second complaint, the College of Physicans accuses Dukan of prioritizing moneymaking over medicine, breaching another part of its ethics code, which states that medicine cannot be practiced like a business. Dukan has sold more than seven million copies of his diet books, which have been translated into several languages and have spawned a website providing paid-for weight-loss programs.

This isnt the first time Dukan has met with controversy or fallen under suspicion. Last year, Dukan lost a libel case against fellow nutritionist Dr.Jean-Michel Cohen, who described the Dukan Diet as dangerous, saying that only theslimming industry, doctors, pill salesmen, publishers and newspapers benefited from it, the Guardian reports.

If found guilty, the BBC reports that Dr. Dukan could be removed from the French medical registry. The hearing will occur in the next six months.

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The Solution to Losing Weight Forever is Not What You Eat, It's What Not to Eat for Your Body Type

Are You a Hunter or a Farmer?

LENOX, Mass., March 27, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At last, a diet book that provides a unique solution to help shed those unwanted pounds that never seem to go away. For those who haven't had success with other diet books, even with total commitment, it wasn't your fault. You just didn't have access to the right diet....until now.

In his groundbreaking book, The Hunter/Farmer Diet Solution (Hay House/April 2012), Canyon Ranch Medical Director, Dr. Liponis, M.D., identifies people as either a Hunter or a Farmer. Accordingly, he prescribes the corresponding diet to follow citing scientific research that proves what many women and men have learned through trial and error: some do better on a low-carb diet, others do better on a low-fat diet. This is because some people have the metabolism of a Hunter, while others have the metabolism of a Farmer.

Referring to a pivotal diet study - the Stanford "A to Z Weight Loss Study" (http://nutrition.stanford.edu/projects/az.html) - Dr. Liponis notes the striking findings that show a huge variation in the amount of weight gained or lost by different people on the same diets. Matching the right diet with the right person produced more than double the weight loss on average. Put simply, some of us are genetically programmed for low-carb diets (Hunters) and others low-fat diets (Farmers).

Farmers need a low-fat, grain-based diet while Hunters need a low-carb diet based on protein and veggies. Farmers need to eat frequent small meals and snacks while Hunters are better suited to eating less often, maybe once or twice a day. Dr. Liponis, a leading expert in preventive and integrative medicine, shares a simple quiz to determine whether you are a Hunter or a Farmer. Once you know your type, you will be on the road to successful and sustained weight loss, greater health, and improved well-being.

Dr. Liponis also discusses diseases and their implications for Hunters and Farmers. While it is impossible to precisely predict future disease, knowing a person's Hunter/Farmer type can help forecast the likelihood of certain diseases. By eating the right diet, Hunters can help avoid cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, and Farmers can help avoid cancer, autoimmune diseases and Alzheimer's.

As Medical Director of Canyon Ranch Health Resorts, the internationally respected and admired destination resort spa for health, wellness and holistic care, Dr. Liponis has plenty of firsthand experience and stories about people and their weight loss struggles. His book gives the necessary strategies to adhere to a Hunter or Farmer diet and specifies which foods to eat or avoid. It includes delicious recipes created and tested by Canyon Ranch specifically for Hunters and Farmers.

Dr. Mark Liponis is co-author of the New York Times bestseller UltraPrevention and the author of UltraLongevity. He has been a practicing physician for more than twenty years, including extensive experience in emergency departments and critical care units. He has continued to expand his understanding and expertise in integrative medicine through his work at Canyon Ranch.

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There is nothing unhealthy in educating youngsters about nutrition, Dukan said, but the College of Physicians views it as dangerous advice to children and a breach of medical ethics.

Dukan is certainly not the only Frenchman to export dubious dietary fads to this country. William the Conqueror is said to have been Englands fattest monarch. He made Henry VIII look like Victoria Beckham. In 1087, King Philip I of France described him as looking like a pregnant woman; he was too fat to ride a horse. Accounts vary as to the precise details of his fat-fighting diet. Some say he consumed nothing but alcohol; others that he entered an early weight-loss clinic near Rouen and went on to a regime of herbs and medicines. Either way, he slimmed down enough to get on to a horse again but to no good effect. Fighting the French at the Battle of Mantes, he was thrown against the pommel of his saddle and his intestine exploded, killing him.

Nor is celebrity slimming a new phenomenon. Lord Byron described himself as having a morbid propensity to fatten. At Cambridge he subsisted on biscuits and soda water or potatoes dressed in vinegar and wore thick-layered clothing to sweat off the pounds. He lost over five stone. Later, living near Lake Geneva, he lived on a slice of bread and cup of tea for breakfast, a light vegetable dinner and drank seltzer with a touch of wine in it.

By the age of 24 he had starved himself into ill-health. Decades after the poets death, in words that foreshadow many a modern health warning, an eminent doctor said: Our young ladies live all their growing girlhood in semi-starvation, in fear of incurring the horror of disciples of Lord Byron. The pilgrimage for moral, spiritual and physical health often regarded as going hand in hand gathered strength in the 19th century.

Among the pioneers was John Harvey Kellogg (father of the cornflake) at whose Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan only whole grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables were served; he also recommended daily yoghurt enemas and discouraged sexual intercourse.

Another American, Horace Fletcher, thought the road to dietary salvation lay in chewing. In a nostrum that many British people of a certain age will have had handed down to them in reduced form, Fletcher said that food should be chewed 32 times, or about 100 times a minute, before swallowing. Nature will castigate those who dont masticate, he said. Franz Kafka was a keen adherent, though it seems to have done little to encourage a feeling of well-being.

In 1863 William Banting, a once-obese English undertaker, wrote a booklet entitled Letter On Corpulence possibly the first modern diet book. He advocated limiting the intake of easily digestible carbohydrates. He was attacked for it, but his book became enormously successful. So popular was his regime that people asked one another do you bant?

People do not quite ask each other do you Dukan? Did you Atkins? Did you Scarsdale? Did you Mayo? Did You Hay? Did you Cabbage Soup? Did you GI? But well they might. Millions do and have, and plenty have tried most of them, as well as a multitude of others. All of them bant nobody has a good word to say for carbohydrates.

The Scarsdale Diet a New York Times bestseller in 1980 was very strict. It advocated grapefruit for breakfast, fruits, vegetables and lean animal fats and offered appetite suppressants. It worked fast but maybe not for long. Its creator, Dr Herman Tarnower, became even more famous in death. He was murdered by his long-term mistress, the headmistress of a fashionable girls school. A feature film followed.

The Atkins diet majored in protein and wasnt frightened of consuming fat. Like many of the others, it started with a blitz then moved into what was intended to be a more sustainable regime. Many swore by it as the weight fell off; most of them will have long forgotten it when the weight piled back on later.

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For the latest installment of I read it so you dont have to, I took on Lc Carls memoir, The Drunk Diet. The book, which hit shelves earlier this month, is being billed asone part fitness guide, one part New York memoir, and one part sheer badass-ery and further proof that pretty much anyone can nab a book deal. Speaking of, who on earth is Lc Carl? A quick Google search tells you that Carl is best-known for dating Lady Gaga. And, hes more than likely the cool Nebraska guy who inspired her to write You and I. Outside of his high-profile relationship, Carl is a bar manager, party promoter, long-distance runner, musician, and you guessed it, a big consumer of alcohol.

I read the book hoping to glean a little more about his relationship with Gaga. Instead, what I found was a lot of cursing and a little too much information about him being constipated and how much he enjoys taking dumps. But I suppose thats the risk you take when you read a book called The Drunk Diet. So without further ado, here are the highlightsnotice the list is smallfrom Carls debut with a few choice lines:

++ Of course, theres a medical disclaimer at the front of the book. Despite the misleading title, Carl is not recommending you get drunk and then go to the gym for cross-training: The Drunk Diet is me being a smart-ass and giving the finger to every other [fill in the blank] Diet book on the shelf.

++ Carl started eating right, exercising, and quit smoking to drop 40 pounds. He did not quit drinking.Its when you dont remember things like throwing upon a regular basisthat you realize, maybe its time to reevaluate my life.

++ What Im saying is, the type of body youre destined to have was partially determined at birthalso, LL Cool Js kid is one lucky bastard.

++ Anything labeled diet is terrible for you. This confused me. See: The title of his book. (I know what he means, but still its a little counterintuitive.)

++ The Drunk Diet is a lifestyle. Its about making changes, setting goals, achieving the goals, and then setting new ones.

++ Save for one paragraph, Lady Gaga was hardly mentioned. And when she was, it wasnt even by name. Occasionally he referred to his wife a.k.a. his former girlfriend:I couldnt even drink the pain away in my own homebecause there she was, taking over the whole world right in front of my face. Even if I was just trying to buy a beer, Id have to listen to her sing about how great life is on the radio at the goddamn grocery store. If I went to the gym, shed be on the TV doing a talk show or receiving an award for Most-Amazing-Person Ever.

++ In the acknowledgements he thanks two important, um , things: To Budweiser and Jamesonwithout the two of you, I would never have gotten all of these incredibly ridiculous ideas.

What do you think? Have you heard of Lc Carl? Would you ever consider reading his memoir and/or partaking in the drunk diet to shed a few extra pounds? Sound off in the comments.

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