I learned something about myself last week. I crave carbohydrates -- fruit, sweets, bread, you name it -- with a burning passion. I know this because, for the most part, I went without them.

Paleo Diet - an Answer to a GMO Contaminated Food Chain?

Government should stop promoting unhealthy diets

Experts suggest looking at your eating patterns.

Like the sections of an old-timey TV dinner, it's common to compartmentalize diet advice. What nobody may have told you, though, is that you're better off considering your dietary goal as one main entree.

Dietary advice can be complicated. Good quality sources can have conflicting information, pitting one recommendation against another. And that holds true for even the best, science-based guidelines out there, including the current government recommendations -- the USDA's 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, known as DGAs.

If these diet rules are to be believed, then all carbs are bad, only tasteless food is healthy, and drinking special shakes or green teas is the only way to lose weight. But don't go believing everything you read.