Avoiding All of the Fad Diets

11. Januar 2010

Every year it seems as if there is a new diet on the market that is guaranteed to help you lose weight more quickly and easily than ever before. Many women who have struggled for years to lose weight see fad diets as a sort of miracle cure. As the saying goes, however, things that seem too good to be true, often are just that. Unfortunately, while many fad diets can help you to lose some weight, quite often the loss is temporary and the harsh restrictions of the diet make it virtually impossible to keep with it indefinitely. Depending on fad diets as opposed to developing healthy eating habits can also lead to yo-yo dieting. Studies have shown that women who rapidly lose and regain weight on a consistent basis are setting themselves up for heart problems in the future. The best way to lose weight safely is to alter your diet to include moderate servings of healthy foods while exercising on a regular basis.
Problems Associated with Popular Fad Diets
The Protein Power Diet. Like many trendy low-carbohydrate diet plans, the Protein Power diet focuses on reducing the amount of carbohydrates you consume. While cutting down on carbs can be a healthy way to lose weight, many low-carb diets allow you to eat as much fat, including saturated fats you want. Too much saturated fat in your diet can lead to heart disease, some forms of cancer and high blood pressure. Additionally, this diet also is devised to help you burn extra fat. While this seems like a great thing, failing to hydrate adequately while burning fat can lead to problems with your kidneys.
Sugar Busters Diet. Another diet aimed at targeting the carbohydrates in your diet, the Sugar Busters diet promotes replacing bad carbs with the good carbs found in foods sold under the Sugar Busters label. The main problem with this diet is that it claims that caloric content is unimportant so long as you are eating the right foods. Also, there is no recommended exercise program to supplement this diet.
Liquid Replacement Diets. Diets which encourage you to replace two meals a day with a liquid substitute can be very effective in the short term. Unfortunately, once the weight is lost and you return to your normal eating habits, weight gain is frequently quick to follow. When choosing a diet, it is best to stick with something you can maintain on a long term basis.
Tips for Avoiding Fad Diets
The opportunity for losing weight can be a strong temptation, but knowing what to look for can help you to avoid fad diets and find a healthier way to lose weight.
Do not fall for any diet that promises a miracle weight loss. Healthy dieting takes time and effort.
Sensible diets are based on balance and moderation, be wary of any diet that allows unlimited quantities of any particular food group.
Take a good look at studies purporting to prove the effectiveness of the diet. Truthful reporting should come from more than a single source, and should not read like a sales pitch.

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Popular Fad Diets – Why They Can Make You Sick. . .

Fad diet have been popular for years, and every year thousands of people search the internet for the recipe for that famous cabbage soup – or they decide to go on the 3 day diet or the grapefruit diet, or the mayo clinic diet.
All fad diets claim that a certain extremely limited group of foods will help you lose weight really fast. For instance, the cabbage soup diet consists of mostly cabbage, potatoes and bananas. The three-day diet lets you eat grapefruit, a little bit of tuna, a tiny amount of meat or chicken, some veggies, and, strangely enough, a cup of ice cream. The so-called Israeli army diet only lets you eat one kind of food a day – apples one day, cheese the next, and so on.
You really do lose weight on these diets. You have to. These diets used to be called starvation diets for a reason.
But if you go on one of these diets, or any low-calorie diet, for that matter, you want to make sure you don’t want to throw away your fat clothes, because within just a few weeks after going off the diet you’ll weigh more than you did when you started.
Starvation will cause you to lose weight, there’s no question about it. But scientists have known for over 91 years that one of the almost inevitable results of starvation is weight gain. Your body objects strongly to not being given enough food to keep its internal fires burning, and it can’t survive for long without the nutrients it needs to keep all the various functions of it’s cells working properly.
That’s why you slow down when you’re on a low-fat diet. You feel tired and irritable because your body is trying to conserve the little amount of food you’re feeding it.
You also get cravings for food – almost any food will do, but the cravings are especially strong for the very foods that make us fat – the sugars and breads and pastas and other simple carbohydrates that make us store extra body fat. Since starvation is a threat to your survival, the cravings will continue to get stronger until they’re absolutely uncontrollable.
Then you go off the diet, and gain back all the weight you lost. Most people go on to gain an additional 3 to 8 pounds.
And weight gain is obviously not what you had in mind when you started on the diet in the first place.
But the inevitable weight gain is just one of the reasons why fad diets are such a bad idea.
The other reasons are considerably more serious. On the rare occasions when a doctor prescribes a very low calorie diet, of 900 calories a day or less, they almost always require that their patients get constant medical supervision. That’s because this qualified as a starvation diet, and they can be very risky.
Even ‘normal’ reduced calorie diets have health consequences. That scientific study I mentioned earlier put healthy college students on a reduced calorie diet to see how their minds and bodies would react.
The study volunteers actually ate more calories than the kind of diet that almost every doctor tells you to go on when he thinks you’re overweight, and they certainly ate way more calories than you get on most fad diets, like the cabbage soup diet and the 3-day diet. The study had the students eat from 1400 to 2100 calories a day.
A later study done in 1945 for the US army found that the symptoms would get worse if you added exercise to the program.
When I found out about this study, it made me downright angry – why haven’t we been told that scientists have known for over 91 years that low-calorie and low-fat diets actually cause the following health problems: Listen closely to this list, because this is what you may experience if you go on any of the currently popular weight loss diets:
* Weight gain.
* Depression.
* Food cravings.
* Feeling tired and listless.
* Constant hunger.
* Reduced interest in sex.
* Chronic fatigue.
* Hypothyroidism.
* Hormone imbalance. 2100
* Scaly skin or eczema.
* Premature wrinkling of the skin.
* Dandruff or dull, lifeless hair.
* Mood swings.
* Chronic yeast infections.
* Poor immune system – frequent colds or respiratory illnesses.
* Digestive problems.
Most people believe that the only way to lose weight is to cut back on the calories, even though scientists have known for almost a century that those serious psychological and physical problems could result.
Let’s take a close look at some of the most serious symptoms on that list:
Depression, mood swings, and chronic fatigue. It is impossible to be motivated to stay on a diet, (or to do anything else, for that matter), when you suffer from chronic depression.
Heck, those healthy college-aged men who participated in the low-calorie diet studies even lost their interest in sex.
And many people take antidepressants, like Wellbutrin, for both depression and to lose weight.
Two important studies have found that the depression caused by a reduced calorie diet may actually get worse for a while after you start eating normally again. It takes time for the body to recover from semi-starvation eating plans.
Constant hunger and food cravings, especially for refined carbs: When you combine the lack of motivation that always accompanies depression and chronic fatigue, and match it up with constant hunger and food cravings, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to find out that most people who start a low-calorie diet will actually end up gaining weight.
The only safe way to lose weight is to eat a correctly balanced diet that gives your body all the nutrients it needs, every single day. Stop eating the kinds of foods that cause the excess storage of body fat, and eat lots of the foods that help you lose weight faster.

My performance on TheStage.TV: “Women Diets (C)”

6. Januar 2010

I received 3 boos and 217 cheers. The audience (12 people) gave me 5 seconds of extra time.

Survey Says – Smoking & Fatty Diets = Unhealthy – Bloomberg

According to British Medical Journal Report, Smoking and Fatty Diets Cuts 10 Years Off Life (Bloomberg News)

Diets 4 Idiots – Dieting Secrets Exposed!

You want to lose weight. Nowadays, there’s hardly anyone left who doesn’t have any interest in weight loss. Whether to cure or avoid obesity and other weight-related illnesses or to look good, more and more people are trying out diets that are designed for losing weight. When you’re on a diet, you normally have to go by with only one type or kind of food and stick to one strict diet. The usual diets that are being practiced these days are often just simply a low-carb diet or a low-protein diet, never both. The problem with following just one diet or concentrating on only one type of food is that you can never be sure whether it will work for you. Not all body types are the same, so while a pure low-carb or low-protein diet may work for others, it might only cause your body more digestive problems. That’s where Diets 4 Idiots come into the picture. This kind of diet embraces the best features of tried and tested diets out there. This means that you won’t have to focus on curbing only your carb or protein intake – you can do both effectively and safely. Moreover, you can have the luxury of eating all types of food – from fruits and vegetables to lean meats – and can switch to low-fat alternatives for your mayonnaise, cheese, and milk needs. The secret of the Diets 4 Idiots’ success is attributed to the food diversity promoted by the diet. Because different diets are incorporated into the diet proper, your body won’t have to feel that it is undergoing a diet regimen and thus, it will allow you to lose weight without resistance and without adjusting to the diet in order to cope. This is important because normally, when you follow a diet, your body fine-tunes itself to adapt to the diet changes and puts the diet to futility. This mechanism won’t happen when you engage in the Diets 4 Idiots program because the diet tricks the body with the variety of food you can eat in the menu. The Diets 4 Idiots’ menu consists of the basic healthy foods that all diets advocate. It tells you to eat fruits and vegetables, and allows you to eat lean protein in the form of tuna, chicken, and lean ground turkey, so you can continue having great-tasting sandwiches – with wheat bread and low-fat mayonnaise, of course. You can also eat mixed nuts. For your dairy needs, you can have low-fat milk (you don’t have to say goodbye to milkshakes and other yummy deserts) and cottage cheese. You’re also allowed to eat carbs in healthy amounts, so you can still enjoy a mean pasta dish and bread. During the first few days of the Diets 4 Idiots, you’re required to take in 2,500 calories in a day. Afterwards, the calories should drop to 1,000. Your body will respond positively in that it will welcome the decrease in calorie intake without losing strength and stamina. Try the Diets 4 Idiots today and enjoy weight loss in a matter of days.

Survey Says – Smoking & Fatty Diets = Unhealthy – Bloomberg

5. Januar 2010

According to British Medical Journal Report, Smoking and Fatty Diets Cuts 10 Years Off Life (Bloomberg News)

Survey Says – Smoking & Fatty Diets = Unhealthy – Bloomberg

According to British Medical Journal Report, Smoking and Fatty Diets Cuts 10 Years Off Life (Bloomberg News)

Survey Says – Smoking & Fatty Diets = Unhealthy – Bloomberg

4. Januar 2010

According to British Medical Journal Report, Smoking and Fatty Diets Cuts 10 Years Off Life (Bloomberg News)

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