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What is a Diet?
A diet actually refers to the type of foods that you eat. But a diet seems to mean something different to each individual. To some a diet is just simply eating healthy food choices while keeping unhealthy choices to a minimum. This does not fall into what a lot would call dieting but it is still a diet.
To others though a diet is the latest fad on the market that promises to allow the individual to lose weight. This can take place in the form of diet drinks, limited food choices, pills and any other form that wishes to be used to promote weight loss. The question is do these dieting methods work and are these methods safe?
Fad diets have found themselves becoming more and more as dieters are seeking out the perfect way to lose weight. There is a reason they are referred to as a fad diet. Fads changes constantly and these diets will try to change to meet the latest fad that society is mostly following. Fads are not usually long term and most fad diets can not give you long term results.
The Food Pyramid is not a One Size Fits All
For decades the food pyramid was promoted to give a guideline to healthy eating. The food pyramid listed each category of foods that a person needed to eat daily to keep in good shape and be healthy. The problem is that when one does live by the food pyramid and still gains an unhealthy amount of weight. This left it to be questioned as to what was wrong with the food pyramid. The food pyramid was rewritten and a new pyramid was designed. This pyramid failed as a one size fits all pyramid just like the old pyramid had failed.
The latest development with the food pyramid was to realize that while everyone does need almost each and every category of food that is one the pyramid, not everyone needs the same amounts of those food. Factors such as age, height, current weight and level of activity needed to be taken into consideration. Low and behold and new food pyramid was developed to allow for everyone to reach their ideal weight and maintain that weight.
The food pyramid website mypyramid.gov allows for you to enter the determining factors so that it can give you a food pyramid designed just for you. No more trying to eat from a pyramid that is designed for someone else’s body type. This new pyramid will not only tell you how much you as an individual need to consume of each thing daily but also how much you need to work in of certain foods on a weekly basis.
The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet was designed by an established cardiologist, Dr. Arthur Agatston around the mid 1990s. He created the diet based off his disbelief that the diet recommend by the American Heart Association worked in terms of long term results.
The South Beach diet is broken down into down into three phases that a you will work yourself through. Phase 1 is a two week phase in which you will cut out foods that contain carbohydrates, are loaded with sugar and you will also cut out alcohol. Phase 2 is the phase that you will begin at the end of two weeks. You will stay in this phase for as long as it take you to reach your ideal healthy weight. During this phase you will start adding back foods that you had removed during your phase 1 of your South Beach diet. You will be allowed to introduce wine at this phase and you will slowly introduce the right carbohydrates into you meals. Phase 3 is where you will continue to eat the food choices that you were taught during phase 1 and phase 2 for life. This phase was meant serve as a maintaining phase to help you maintain your new healthy weight indefinitely.
The South Beach diet book and website offer up recipes for each phase that can help you to create meals that fit with the phase you are in. It is designed to not only show you a new way to eat but also to help you learn how to fix
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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG
Texte: Noah Daniels
Bildmaterialien: wolfmedia2000
Lektorat: Wolfgang Buschek
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 12.03.2014
ISBN: 978-3-7309-9122-0
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