Nutritional Diet

Atkins Diet is the high-protein, high-fat but considerably low carbohydrate course of therapy related to the weight loss. This diet plan focuses on meat, cheese and eggs whereas discourages foods like breads, pastas, fruits and sugars in any form. Atkins Diet is almost the type of ketogenic diets. Basically this is the quick and significant weight loss diet. It helps the body burning more stored fats through controlling the carbohydrate intakes. There is no specific restriction on the quantity of calories or food quantity permitted on the diet, but there is slight appetite between meals. As per Atkins, the diet can ease symptoms of conditions like fatigue, irritability, headaches, depression besides certain kinds of joints and muscle pains.

The diet is the low carbohydrate or ketogenic type diet, signified by the faster weight loss primarily, especially because of loss of water in the body. Excessively minimizing the quantity of carbohydrate ingestion affects the loss of liver and muscle glycogen that has strong but transient diuretic effects. However, the extended weight loss develops due to the consumption of reduced amount of carbohydrate forcing the body to burn out stored fats for required energy levels.

Atkins Diet is the four step diet plan which initiates with the two week induction plan which is intended to rebalance the metabolism. There is no restrictions on fat or protein intake but the carbohydrate consumption is however limited to just 15to20 grams per day. The other foods permitted include butter, oil, meat, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese and cream. The daily quantity of permitted carbohydrates is equivalent to nearly three cups of salad vegetables like lettuce, cucumbers and celery.

There is no advance preparations required for initiating the Atkins Diets , yet like any other diets, it is widely suggested to consult the doctor for having the physical evaluation before going for it as the nutritional treatment. Necessary examinations such as blood tests for ascertaining cholesterol levels, triglycerides, glucose, insulin and uric acids are required to be done, besides the tolerance test for the glucose. So far side effects are concerned; Atkins states that this diet plans does not have any such effects reported as yet.

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Posted on September 14th, 2007 by m.jane
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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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