Archive for August, 2008

Best Life Diet is a healthy diet and lifestyle based on the book “Bob Greene’s The Best Life Diet” by author Bob Greene. Bob Greene is Oprah Winfrey’s personal trainer. “The Best Life Diet” emphasizes the importance of routine exercise regimens and making wise food choices.

How Best Life Diet Works

The Best Life Diet urges making vegetables a mainstay of your diet, suggests trying a new vegetable each week (including less familiar veggies like jicama, hearts of palm and celery root), and offers recipes for vegetarian soups, entrées, salads and wraps. Read the rest of this entry »

Dr.Robert Atkins addressed his own weight condition from a diet he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Realizing the benefits of the diet he followed Atkins later popularized the idea as The Atkins Diet in a series of books, starting with Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution in 1972. The Atkins Diet or just ‘Atkins’ is a well known low carbohydrate diet.

How Atkins Diet Works

The Atkins Diet states we can change our metabolism and lose weight easily simply by eating foods high in protein and fat and limiting foods high in carbohydrate. Consuming a high level of carbohydrates causes overproduction of insulin, leading to increased hunger and weight gain. The diet encourages the consumption of foods rich in protein. Read the rest of this entry »

How many times have you eyed that jar of peanut butter and then pushed it away thinking it is just too fattening to eat? If you’re like hundreds of other people out there, your answer will be the same; “every time”. What if I told you that you can put that guilt aside and indulge your peanut butter cravings all the while losing weight? You’d be sold, wouldn’t you? The peanut butter diet is just what you are looking for and I’m going to tell you how you can eat that creamy peanut butter and not feel guilty about it anymore.

The secret is to not over-do it; you have to limit your intake; you can’t sit down with a full jar and finish it off in one day and think you will lose weight. As with anything in life, moderation is the key. The peanut butter diet allows for you to have up to six tablespoons of peanut butter day. It may sound crazy, but the peanut butter diet is much better for you than most low fat diets because it is high in protein, in which your body needs. Read the rest of this entry »

The Three Day Diet is a fad diet dating back to 1985. Followers of the Three Day Diet are promised up to a 10 pound weight loss in three days. The allure of the the Three Day Diet is the promise of up to a 10 pound weight loss in three days. The reality is that most of that weight loss is likely due to fluid loss and not the more desirable fat loss.

How the Three Day Diet Works

As the name suggests, the Three Day Diet lasts only three days, though it’s said that it can be repeated indefinitely, as long as you alternate with 4-5 days of undefined normal eating. The purpose of returning to your usual eating style is to keep your metabolism from slowing, reverting to fat-storing, starvation mode Read the rest of this entry »

The Biggest Loser Diet is a calorie-controlled, carbohydrate modified, fat reduced, weight loss diet geared to help you burn pure fat from the body. It also help to do so without deprivation or loss of energy.

How The Biggest Loser Diet Works

The Biggest Loser Diet guides you to choose foods that are closer to their natural source, particularly fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, because your body processes and uses them much more efficiently to build health. Whole foods are those that have not been modified from their natural state, or have been modified only a little bit, for example, through cooking. Foods that have been substantially modified are classified as processed foods. For example, blueberries are a whole food but blueberries toaster pastries are not. Read the rest of this entry »

The Three Day Diet Reemerges

The cabbage soup diet is a 7 day meal plan, aimed at achieving fast weight loss. It is said to have originated Sacred Hearts Hospital to stimulate weight loss for surgery patients.

How the Cabbage Soup Diet Works

The cabbage soup diet is based on a fat-burning soup that contains negligible calories. The more soup you eat the more weight you should lose. The cabbage soup diet is a radical weight loss diet designed around heavy consumption of a low-calorie cabbage soup over the time of seven days. It is generally considered a fad diet, in that it is designed for short-term weight loss.

The typical claimed intent of the diet is to lose 10 pounds (4.5 kg) of weight in a week, though nutritional experts point out that it is impossible to lose that much fat within a week. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you in search of a healthy weight loss diet plan that can help you lose weight fast and keep it off? If you are, there are a few things you should keep in mind when attempting to lose weight. Although there are many different ways to effectively lose weight, keeping the weight off is an entirely different story. The key to efficiently losing weight is not so much about how fast you lose the weight, rather it is a question of whether or not you can sustain your new lifestyle and keep the weight off for good. Here are some weight loss tips to help you towards your goals.

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Society has this grand illusion of how a person should look; keeping that in mind, there is a great deal of people out there making profits feeding off this notion of how a person should look. Fad diets have come to age and it seems they are making a huge impact on people and not always in a positive way. Fad diets are designed to help people lose weight fast and usually not in a healthy way.

Common fad diets:

A liquid diet restricts you from having any sort of solid food or eatables. It suggests the inclusion of only liquid juices etc. whenever you feel hungry. This manner may ensure that you lose weight, if you cope with this regime regularly, but the moment you start eating back, the lost pounds would start showing. Reason for the same is that your body is no more accustomed to digest the solid diet. Also this fad diet doesn’t provide your body with necessary vitamins and nutrients. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s no more a genuine market of fad diets which give you hopeful advice of losing weight. You look around and everyone is hovering to sell their products and grab money. It hardly matters to them what weight is lost after having their medicines and following their diet regime. The fad diets are not always good. One need to choose them wisely. Some can be injurious to your health and can cause serious damage.

Some of the medical practitioners have been voicing their views on opposing these fad diets. Diets like cabbage soup and Atkins can make you lose weight in no time but that does not necessarily ensure that you are healthy. Obese people being physically active are rated as healthier than the thinner ones who do not exercise. Under the influence of fad diets, you should not skip meals. This causes you to eat more at one sitting rather than having a controlled diet in three meals. Read the rest of this entry »

Cabbage soup diet, as the name suggests, consists primarily of cabbage which is a low fat and fiber rich vegetable. Since it is fiber rich and low fat, it helps the consumers to lose weight fast. It is an easy to follow diet. Cabbage soup diet is recommended for around seven days. Users claim that cabbage soup helps in losing around 10 pounds within a week.

If you have been trying to lose weight over a long time and have not succeeded, you may try cabbage soup. It will restore your confidence in your ability to lose weight.

It must be noted that cabbage soup diet is a short term measure and requires no commitment for a long time; it has become quite popular among the weighty persons. Read the rest of this entry »