Facts About South Beach Diets
The South Beach Diet has been designed and developed by Dr. Arthur Agatston who is recognized as the prominent cardiologist and the Director of the Mount Sinai Cardiac Prevention Center in Miami Beach . In fact, the Dr. had initially desired to design an eating plan for improving the cholesterol and insulin levels of his parents. But to his utter surprise his parents also lost some weight due to his eating plan. Hence after further studies, Dr. Arthur Agatston contacted Marie Almon – RD, the Chief Clinical Dietician of the same hospital, in this context and requested him to help in developing the effective and ideal diet plan. Thus the South Beach Diet plan was created.
The South Beach Diet is the three-staged carbohydrate restraining diet plan which accentuates the foods having lower glycemic index – GI, having lower saturated fats that include lean meats, vegetables, cheese, nuts and eggs. The South Beach Diets are said to encourage good carbohydrates like grains and fruits dissimilar to the various other carbohydrate restraining diet plans like Atkins or Zone diets.
During the initial two weeks of taking the South Beach Diet is believed to be noticeably beneficial since it exhibits the faster and remarkable weight loss
like 8 to 13 lbs i.e. 4 to 6 kg. However, after the initial couple of weeks too, the weight loss continues at the slower rate at an average weight loss of around 1 to 2 lbs or 0.4 to 1 kg every week. Besides losing weight, the diet also helps reducing cholesterol and insulin levels resulting in the minimized risk of diabetes and heart ailments. The diet is so designed that it eradicates s hunger or eating desire besides having more flexible food options following the initial couple of weeks.
In the South Beach Diet book, the creator writes that the typical diet is neither low carbohydrate, nor low fat whereas the diet is intended to emphasize on the ‘good’ carbohydrates like fresh fruits, vegetables as well as whole grains, besides good fats such as olive oil and nuts instead of completely discarding them from your routine diets.
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Posted on September 7th, 2007 by m.jane
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