Low calorie diets may help to increase your longevity. The adage "less is more" could work well as a guiding tenet for those who wish to lose weight successfully. The less health damaging practices you have, the more benefits that your body is able to enjoy. Modern living is full of unhealthy practices. More people nowadays live at highly stressful and fast-paced conditions. From the moment you wake up right up to the time that you end your day, you are more likely to have done your body some damage.

Start with rushing out of your home without breakfast and instead grabbing that sugary donut and a cup of coffee because you have an early morning meeting at the office. Your meeting extends towards lunch leaving you with no other time to sit down for a meal so you grab a big burger with a side of large fries and a large cup of soda to take back to your workstation so you can finish up that report needed by mid-afternoon. Several cups of coffee and a BLT sandwich later at the end of your workday, you hail a cab home and stop by the grocery to pick up some supplies – including several bags of chips, a couple of six-packs of your favorite soda, some frozen cold cuts, and several pints of ice cream. You get home and you are too tired to fix yourself some home-cooked dinner. The frozen microwave dinner would do just fine. Sitting in front of the television catching up on the day’s news, you gulp down your dinner with your soda and pop open your bag of chips just as the after-news movie comes on.

This is how the normal day goes for most young professionals. Normal as it may seem, it does not make it healthy. It is not all that hard to edit this scene and make it healthier. Low calorie diets would not necessarily make it better. While this scene could use some tips from low calorie diets, the wiser thing to do is to choose the kinds of food that contain the right amount of calories to match your level of activity. There are food choices that you can make in order jack up your health level. Instead of your chips and fizzy drinks, go for veggie sticks, unsalted pretzels, and water. Nuts are also good snack choices to munch on while watching your evening movie.