The Lighter Side of: Dietary Changes

Our perspective on food seems to shift on a regular basis.
Foods and ingredients that were once considered healthy are now considered potentially deadly and vice versa. We have superfoods and meat alternatives and soy or almond or coconut milk etc...
On top of all of the ever-changing information on nutrition, with chronic illness you are constantly told by everyone who ever speaks with you about this 'new amazing diet' for such-and-such disease.
These new diets are, most often, recycled diets from decades before with a new spin. That's not to say they don't work, because many people vouch for the varying diets out there, it is just to say that the research and nutrition focus has been explored in many cases.

I think many people are prone to sticking with something they enjoy or they find works for what they are attempting to achieve. With this tendency, we sometimes focus on a particular regimen and then continue with that regimen indefinitely.
While that can be helpful, there is a major advantage to having new information and being required to change dietary intake on a semi regular basis.
The Lighter Side of constant Dietary Changes or recommendations for the newest diet is that we may find out how many delicious foods are available on each diet.
We learn to try new things, find new enjoyable tastes, and we can quickly realizing how many tasty foods fit strict dietary criteria.

When we are stuck in our own routine, following a basic diet we have become comfortable with, a new diet can be daunting. Instead of worrying about foods we may have to give up, we can look at how many different foods we can now add to our diet that we have been previously unaware of. We forget how good certain foods are until we are required to add them.