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To help with weight issues and for overall improved health, many people turn to diets. In
fact, government statistics show that while about 65 percent of Americans are overweight, 38 percent are actually
doing something about it. The most common weight related issues include but are not limited to.
Coronary heart disease
Type 2 diabetes
Cancers (endometrial, breast, and colon)
Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Dyslipidemia (for example, high total cholesterol or high levels of triglycerides)
Stroke
Liver and Gallbladder disease
Sleep apnea and respiratory problems
Osteoarthritis (a degeneration of cartilage and its underlying bone within a joint)
Gynecological problems (abnormal menses, infertility)
And according to a recent survey by the National Health Institute, about a third of overweight
Americans who are trying to lose weight, are doing so by eating less
carbohydrates (carbs) largely because of the increased popularity of diets like
Atkins
Diet and the South Beach Diet.
Although there have certainly been other low-carb or low-sugar diet plans before, and more
will most assuredly come out in the years ahead, let's take a look at the basics behind many of the major plans.
History and Background of Low Carb Diets - Click here to read more.
The terminology low-carb wasn't really coined until around 1992
when the USDA announced America's model food pyramid included six to eleven servings daily of grains and starches.
However, low-carb dieting dates back more than 100 years before the trendy Atkins diet to 1864 with a pamphlet
titled Letter on Corpulence written by William Banting, as close to the first commercial low-carb diet as you could get.
Popular Low Carb Ketogenic Diets - Click
here to read more.
Now, here is a list 14 of the most popular low-carb diet plans and books and a summary of
their requirements.
7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan - Click here to read more.
This book is was written by Drs. Rachel and Richard Heller and is touted as being the book for any low-carb dieter
on any plan who needs help getting back on track right now.
Atkins Diet - Click here to read more.
Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution - Click here to read more.
Perhaps the most widely known of all low carb diets is the Atkins diet. Created by Dr. Robert Atkins in the 1970s
the Atkins diet is considered by some to be the most extreme low carb diet plan.
Carbohydrate Addict s Diet - Click here to read more.
Husband and wife scientist team Drs. Rachael and Richard Heller introduced the term "Carbohydrate Addict"
in their 1993 book The Carbohydrates Addict's Diet. The idea is that some people are addicted to carbohydrates
just like alcoholics are addicted to alcohol and drug addicts are addicted to drugs. This addiction causes strong
cravings, insulin resistance and weight gain.
Hampton s Diet - Click here to read more.
Dr. Fred Pescatore, a former Associate
Medical Director at the Atkins Institute, developed the Hampton's Diet. This diet is a mix of low carb dieting
concepts and the healthiest concepts of the Mediterranean diet. He encourages the liberal consumption of monosaturated fats to aid weight loss and prevent
diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. All of this is laid out in The Hampton's Diet, published in
May of 2004.
Living Low-Carb - Click here to read more.
Written by Fran McCullough, the author of The Low-Carb Cookbook, this book's rather long subtitle promises to teach
"everything food-loving dieters need to know to achieve lasting success, including: strategies for controlling
binges and cravings, dealing with sudden weight gains and secret metabolic weapons".
NeanderThin - Click here to read more.
Ray Audette, the author of NeanderThin touts his diet as a way to "Eat
like a caveman to achieve a lean, strong, healthy body". At the tender age of 33, Audette suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes. After hearing
from doctors that his condition was treatable but not curable, Audette decided to undertake nutritional research to find a better cure.
Protein Power - Click here to read more.
Drs. Michael and Mary Eades, co-authors
of The Protein Power LifePlan hold
views similar to Audette and also
believe that modern health problems are caused by our modern diet that is heavy on grains and processed food. (Notable
is that Dr. Michael Eades even
wrote the introduction to Audette's
NeanderThin.)
Schwarzbein Principle - Click here to read more.
Dr. Diana Schwarzbein is the endocrinologist
to the stars. The doctor of choice for Suzanne Somers, Larry Hagman and many others, Schwarzbein
encourages extensive testing for hormonal imbalances and then suggests various diet and exercise programs and selective
hormone replacement to treat any deficiencies.
Somersizing
- Click here to read more.
Suzanne Somers first introduced "Somersizing" in Suzanne Somers Eat Great, Lose Weight in 1992. Somersizing is a way of eating in which you cut sugar and "funky foods" and eat plenty of fats, proteins
and good carbs like vegetables and fruit. Foods must be combined in certain ways so that the body easily digests
them. Dieters Somersize in two
steps, the first (Level One) to lose weight and induce "the melt" of fat and the second (Level Two) for
ongoing maintenance of their ideal weight.
South Beach Diet - Click here to read more.
Developed by Dr. Arthur Agatston,
The South Beach Diet touts itself as teaching dieters to eat the right carbs and the right fats. The diet has three
phases. In the first dieter's banish their bad carb cravings and induce rapid weight loss. In the second phase,
some types of carbs are reintroduced and weight loss is slower. The final phase is the "Diet for Life"
phase. This is the maintenance diet and will be followed for the rest of the dieter's life. If at any time the
dieter begins to gain unwanted pounds, then he simply goes through the induction and pre-maintenance phases again.
Sugar Busters - Click here to read more.
On Sugar Busters! dieters cut sugar
to trim fat. This diet was created by a group of doctors and the CEO of a Fortune 500 business from New Orleans
who realized that low fat foods are full of sugar and that it is the sugar in foods that produces a negative insulin
response and leads to weight gain.
The Glycemic Index Diet - Click here to read more.
Written by Rick Gallop, a former President of The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, The Glycemic Index (GI)
Diet claims, "if you can understand
a traffic light, you'll understand this diet".
The Zone - Click here to read more.
Created by Dr. Barry Sears, The Zone encourages balanced carb and protein intake. Dr. Sears suggests that you divide
your plate into three sections, one for protein and two for fruits and vegetables per meal. This works out to 30
percent protein, 40 percent carb, and 30 percent fat. For each meal, the protein portion should be roughly the
size of your tightly closed fist. The carb portion should be the size of two loosely closed fists and the added
fat portion should be about the volume of your thumb.
Thin for Good - Click here to read more.
Before he began extolling the virtues of Australian macadamia nut oil, Dr. Fred Pescatore wrote the book Thin For Good: The One Low-Carb Diet That Will Finally Work for You. This plan explores the mind-body connection
in lasting weight loss and includes plans for men and women as well as a low-carb diet plan for vegetarians.
Diets and Popular Dietary Treatments - Click here to read more.
Americans spends millions of dollars each year on diet books, products, and weight-loss plans.
With all of this dieting, you would think obesity would be decreasing every year instead of increasing. So, why
aren't they working?
Subscriber Diet Programs - Click here to read more.
There are many subscriber programs available both online and in the real world for dieters.
In order to help choose one or just learn more about them in order to help round out your daily life and coordinate
your activities, foods - - i.e. perfect diet lifestyle, here are some of the membership programs available.
And let's take a look at how they fit into the real world today. Because while it might be great to lower the body's
sugar content and be healthier, wouldn't it be great to learn how to do so while being part of this fast-paced
world?
In the world of instant messaging, quick Internet interaction and the already multi-faceted
day-to-day hectic schedules, dietary food budgeting, planning, preparing and shopping are issues that can become
major sources of stress and reasons for dieting failure. Dual income families on-the-go and other super-busy wage
earners and dieters often already suffer from more than their share of everyday stressors like fears of being laid
off, their jobs being relocated or terminated, juggling more than one job, dependents (both elderly and minors)
and trying to fund and juggle continuing education into their lives, budgets, and daily routines.
People want and need simpler solutions. And they need simpler dieting plans. Forget spending
mega bucks on gourmet, hard-to-find items. Forget spending hours just to prepare meals. And forget counting, measuring,
and weighing ingredients.
Natural Dieting Alternatives
- Click here to read more.
Nutrition and Dietary Basics
- Click here to read more.
The Dieting Twelve Steps - Click here to read more.
Basic Meal And Menu Planning
- Click here to read more.
Social Eating and Traveling Tips
- Click here to read more.
Basic Weight Management - Click here to read more.
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MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 2007.
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- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthy People 2010. 2nd ed. With Understanding
and Improving Health and Objectives for Improving Health. 2 vols. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office,
November 2000.
- Eades, Michael R.; Eades, Mary Dan: Protein
Power: The High-Protein/Low-Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health--in Just Weeks!, Bantam Books, 1999, ISBN 978-0553380781.
- Bowen, R.: The Endocrine
Pancreas, Colorado State University: Hypertexts for Biomedical Sciences, 8 December
2002.
- The Ketogenic Diet, Johns Hopkins Epilepsy Center.
- Banting, William: Letter On Corpulence, Addressed To The Public, 4th, London, England:
Harrison, 1869.
- Bowden, Jonny: Living the Low Carb Life: From Atkins to the Zone, Sterling Publishing,
February 2004, ISBN
978-1402713989, 352pp.
- Carr, Timothy P.: Discovering Nutrition, Blackwell Publishing, October 2002, ISBN 978-0632045648.
- Freeman, John M., Kossoff, Eric H., Freeman, Jennifer B.: The Ketogenic Diet:
A Treatment for Children and Others with Epilepsy, Fourth edition, Demos Medical
Publishing, October 4, 2006, ISBN 978-1932603187.
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