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The Grapefruit Diet
Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by admin.
MAIKEL WOOD asked:
The Grapefruit Diet is one of the fad diets that were really popular back in the 1980s although it has been in one form or another since 1930. Most of the time, the grapefruit diet has been discounted by experts as dangerously unbalanced or simply unable to deliver on its promises. It was generally thought that consuming vast quantities of grapefruit cannot influence weight loss in any way, which relegated this diet to the status of yet another fad, one of those things people go crazy about without any real reason. However, time has passed and new discoveries are about to rock the traditional view.
The basic idea behind this diet is to eat grapefruit whenever you can, drink a glass of unsweetened grapefruit juice with every meal, add grapefruit to cocktails and also to salads. Grapefruit is supposed to go well with the lean meat from crab and chicken and with vegetables, such as red onions, spinach and celery. The biggest advantage is, of course, the fact that grapefruit is virtually fat-free and has few calories. An entire grapefruit has about 70 calories, which means that you can eat about as much as you can stomach and still lose weight.
The best thing about the Grapefruit Diet is a recent study carried out by a team of scientists led by Doctor Ken Fujioka, from the Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center of the Scripps Clinic in San Diego. The study has found that, contrary to the opinions voiced by experts in the 1980s, adding grapefruit and grapefruit juice to your diet can actually help you lose weight. And what’s really great about it: you don’t have to change your eating habits at all. Naturally, eating less fat and sweets and doing some exercises is a very good way of speeding up the weight loss process, but you don’t have to go out of your way with this diet.
According to the study, eating half a grapefruit before each meal and exercising a bit every day helped a group of obese people drop an average 3.6 pounds in 12 weeks without any change in their eating habits whatsoever. A second group had to drink a glass of grapefruit juice before every meal and lost 3.3 pounds in the same 12 weeks. While it’s true that losing 1 pound per month gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “slow diet”, you have to appreciate a diet that lets you eat whatever you like and still shed a pound per month. If weight loss is not a stringent affair, then you can stick to this diet for a long time and reap the benefits.
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Your Metabolism And The South Beach Diet
Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by admin.
Ryan Cote asked:
The claim made by the South Beach Diet is that it is a scientifically proven plan that will definitely assist you in fulfilling your goals to lose weight safely. The South Beach Diet will help you to drop pounds quickly as well as increase your heart health. Most individuals average a weight loss between eight and thirteen pounds after the first two weeks of participating in this diet.
Because the South Beach Diet is neither low fat or low carb, it is totally different from the famous Atkin’s Diet. Rather, the South Beach Diet encourages you to depend on the correct carbs and the right fats. This is made easy to do by implementing a three phase process that starts with eliminating your cravings and concludes by making a lifestyle change that incorporates the ideals of this diet.
What is most valuable about the South Beach Diet is that it gives you sound nutritional advice. While the diet retains eating meat, the most important part of the Atkin’s Diet, it discards the philosophy that you can only have low carb foods. Rather, you are advised to eat a proper, well-balanced diet for the rest of your life. That seems rather simple, doesn’t it?
The South Beach diet should consist of lots of fruits, whole grains, vegetables, nuts and healthy oils. Numerous people all over America are raving about the successful way this diet has enabled them to lose weight. The program is effortless to learn and put into practice and because of the dietary freedom it provides along with its success ratio, it is rapidly becoming one of of the most popular forms of dieting available.
The original clamor abut the South Beach Diet original with celebrities, who seem to love this diet as well as swear about it. Its popularity and notoriety does not mean, however, that the South Beach Diet does not work. Even everyday people are finding that that this program is one of the simpler, less expensive diets to maintain because it is based upon balanced eating habits as opposed to denial and deprivation. This may be the main reason that so many people remain on this diet for the rest of their lives.
What is wonderful about the South Beach Diet is that there is a wide variety of foods you can eat and you can really enjoy your meals and leave the table without that hungry feeling. It is worth taking a little bit of time of learn this diet because it is really easy to follow over the long haul. When you incorporate this diet permanently into your current fitness regime, you will ultimately find that you have increased energy and your metabolism will receive the boost you were looking for.