Diets That Work
Today on NBC (03/14/07), they touched on Stanford University’s study on
diets that work. They took the most popular diets and put about 300
women on these different diets to see which ones worked the best. On
average, the Atkins diet participants lost 10 pounds in a years time,
the rest, on average, 3 to 6 pounds.
What they didn’t ask is if they tested the participants to see what diet they would do better at in losing weight.
You see, every body type is different, so you react differently to foods.
Say for example you take someone with a genetic background that
regularly consumes complex carbs, but not heavy animal protein. You
take take someone like that, put them on a high complex carb, no fat,
no red meat diet, and they will drop weight without doing exercise.
They drop a ton of weight with exercise.
You can take someone with heavy fat and red meat diet, put them on a no
fat, no carb diet, and they will drop weight without exercise. With
exercise, the weight will peal off.
Then you have those that can’t lose weight on low calories…these people
have to have their thyroid tested as well as taking into consideration
their genetic background. Stimulate their thyroid with medium chained
fats, low protein and low carbohydrate along with moderate exercise,
and they will lose weight.
Losing weight is a science and a lifestyle, difficult at best, for the lay person to guess what will work for them.
If you want to lose weight, see what made you gain the weight and eliminate it from your diet. Count you calories and exercise.
Think about what your background is and follow the regional diet from
that area. If you are a “mutt” look into all your genetics and
experiment with those foods. Check your weight in a week and see if you
have gained a pound or lost a pound. If you’ve lost, then stay on that
regional food, and please make sure that is really “regional” and not
processed at all! Processed food is like eating foods that has been
already chewed and broken down in stomach acid and put on your plate
for you to eat. It hits your blood and liver running! Stay with made
from scratch foods, the vegetables and fruits from that region that are
fresh and meats regularly made in those foods in moderations.
Thanks for the Rant!
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