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Good Calories for Permanent Weight Loss
By Grace M. Navarro[ http://ezediets.com]
As the dust and cookie crumbs from festivities during the
holidays began to settle, many people made resolutions to
take better care of their health, and maybe shed some
weight. By now, some are still carrying on with those good
intentions. Others have gotten a little off-track, and are
hoping to renew their healthy intentions. Either way,
here's some encouragement and information.
You're not alone if you're on a diet or thinking about
starting one. On any given day, there are about 60 million
U.S. Americans on a weight reduction diet. Out of a
population of about 300 million, that means one in five of
the people you might encounter today are right now in the
process of attempting to take off extra pounds, whether
they need to or not. During the course of this year, if
data from the previous several years are predictive, half
of the entire population will start a diet in the hopes of
losing some weight, meaning that every alternate person you
meet today will try to lose weight this year. Among women,
3 out of 4 feel they need to shed some pounds.
A simple fact, commonly known and frequently ignored, is
that some diet products don't work and some actually keep
you from losing weight. Buyer beware. Understanding a few
key concepts would help many people avoid the mistake of
starting a diet plan that is doomed to failure. Often, it
is not the dieter who fails, but rather the flawed premise
of the diet plan that ends up failing to work for the
dieter. It is heartbreaking to know that someone who is
giving their best effort, and suffering discomfort,
unnecessary hunger, and emotional pain during the process
of dieting has a 98% chance of regaining all the weight
they lost, plus a few pounds more. The most important thing
for anyone contemplating a diet to understand is this one:
Dozens of studies have shown conclusively that
'traditional' dieting - restricting caloric intake - does
not work.
In a nutshell, here's why simply reducing calories will
not ever work. Our bodies are programmed in miraculous ways
for survival, and the part of our brain that does the work
to keep us alive couldn't care less about fitting into a
smaller sized pair of jeans. Faced with a radical reduction
of food, the alarms go off and our bodies set to work:
conserving energy, creating more fat, slowing down
metabolism, and engaging in a battery of survival
mechanisms that keep us from starving. In the process of
restricting calories, people inadvertently trigger these
"starvation responses," which make weight loss very
difficult and which guarantee that when the diet is over,
all the lost weight will be regained.
People fall for diet programs that defy common sense for a
number of reasons. First, there is confusion because so
much conflicting information is published by the media.
Second, we are barraged with some very effective marketing
as companies compete for our dieting dollars (35 billion is
spent annually in the US alone). Third, the truth is that
most of us want to believe there is some magic answer, an
easy, quick and effective way to get fit. Despite the
claims made by promoters of many diet plans and products,
research is consistently showing that the big four dieting
concepts do not work in the long-run. They are either
unsustainable, or too simplistically applied. Low-calorie
is over. No-fat is out. High-protein is finished. Low-carb
is on the wane.
Well then, what does work? Eating the foods our bodies are
designed to eat, in proper proportion and combination.
Combining the right foods for weight loss is not tricky,
but it doesn't seem to be common knowledge either. There
are, however, good books available on the subject of
effective food combining. The most clearly written and
workable book I've found so far is "Good Calorie Diet" by
Dr. Phillip Lipetz. The book was written in 1994, but it is
based on sound research. And besides, the principles
regarding what foods we should eat in what combinations are
as old as humankind.
The concepts in the book are easy to understand. The
basics boil down to a few principles. The main two I'll
give here so you can get started on the road to changing
your eating habits for permanent and real weight loss. Eat
whole food, not processed (that is, avoid foods that come
in a package, can, or box). Avoid combining animal protein
with starchy carbohydrates (bread, potatoes, pasta, rice)
or fruit. This is aligned with the way our ancestors ate,
and it makes sense to eat according to the diet humans have
thrived upon for millennia.
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Michael E. Richardson : I like the article because it states upfront we all being miseducated and explains how and why. This gets a 10 in my understanding. It goes on to say calorie restriction only switches the defense mechanism 'on' and assures us of unwanted results. Real dieting consists of eating foods that match our constitution. This involves proper food combining for your metabolic type. Pretty simpe and direct.
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