All Entries Tagged With: "dieting"
Choosing the Right Diet
Despite all the fads of the last 30 years or more, it remains true – backed by a large amount and variety of nutritional research – that a good diet is the old-fashioned ‘balanced diet’ that has remained largely unchanged for 60 years or more. The keyword deserves repeating: balanced.
There are fad diets that emphasize [...]
How to Keep Your Cravings Under Control While You Diet?
Even a healthy diet doesn’t eliminate all cravings. The desire for a chocolate bar, a high-calorie cappuccino and other high-sugar, high-fat items doesn’t disappear overnight. But cravings can be managed, and with more than just ’sheer willpower’, important as that is.
Some people diet by simply foregoing meals, such as breakfast or lunch. But that ‘all [...]
An Overview of Dieting and Weight Loss for Everyone
Dieting to achieve weight loss is difficult enough. Doing it right is another matter. Of course, what is ‘right’ for one may not work well for another. Creating a natural weight loss from a balanced, healthy diet takes a little research.
You could just stop eating for a while, at least. But the cravings could drive [...]
The Advantages and Risks of Dieting
Nearly everyone thinks that dieting would be a good idea. For many, it is. A recent study showed that the average American now consumes about 22% more calories than those of only a generation ago. With that, it isn’t hard to see why obesity could be a problem.
But dieting is not without risks, especially in [...]
Why You Can’t Just Stop Eating
One sure way to lose weight, it might seem, is simply to stop eating for a while. Simple as it sounds, that idea is fraught with potential problems.
The basic weight loss equation certainly remains valid in this case: using more calories than are consumed results in weight loss. If you don’t take in calories by [...]
An Overview of The Zone Diet
The Zone Diet is similar to the South Beach diet in some ways. But here the emphasis is less on adjusting the Glycemic Index by adjusting the types of carbohydrates and fats consumed and more on the proper ratio of these with proteins.
The basic idea of the Zone Diet is to adjust the ratio of [...]
An Overview of The South Beach Diet
The South Beach Diet is a phased approach to weight loss and nutrition. In the three major phases dieters will eat selected foods and avoid others, in order to balance the glycemic index to lose weight and achieve optimal metabolism.
The Glycemic Index
The GI is a measure of the relative amount of blood sugar created in [...]
A Better Understanding of Low Carb Diets
It’s unfortunate that the phrase ‘low carb’ (like many diets) is sometimes associated with diet fads. Sensible people may dismiss them because of that. But far from being based on junk science, a low carbohydrate diet can be healthy and just the right choice for some.
No single dieting method is perfect for everyone. But low [...]
A Better Understanding of Low Fat Diets
Like any approach to dieting, the benefits of a low fat diet can be overstated. One of the largest studies on the subject, following over 50,000 women for eight years, found no evidence to support the view that a low fat diet lowered the odds for heart attack or stroke. Nor did it help reduce [...]
Is Dieting Right For Everyone?
There’s no single answer to the question posed by the title that is right for everyone, of course. There are a variety of natural body types, some very thin, others on the stocky side. Still, official sources state that people now consume about 22% more calories daily than they did a generation ago. In light [...]
