Diet experts and successful dieters agree that good habits are key to losing weight sustainably, focusing on less fattening food and certain exercises. Here are 10 habits that can help you shed extra flab in the fattening holiday season ahead. Read more
Is bottled water better for you than tap? Or should you choose vitamin-enriched water over sparkling? Experts say, skip it all. None of these products are likely to make you any healthier. Below, we look at five major myths about the benefits of drinking water.
But first, how do you know if you’re drinking enough water? Experts say there’s an easy way to judge. If you’re not thirsty, you’re fluid intake is likely “just right.” Read more
The following is a “healthy food hot list” consisting of the 29 products that will give you the biggest nutritional bang for you caloric buck, as well as decrease your risk for deadly illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Along with each description is a suggestion as to how to incorporate these power-foods into your diet. Read more
F-plan of weight loss
The book published in 1982 by British physiologist Audrey Eyton is still popular today. Eyton first has offered a diet for the weight loss, rich with fiber. (The name F-plan – from English “dietare fibre” – fiber, food fibers). Now on sale there is complementary edition that was printed a few years later. This diet is based on fact that (correctly, non-starchy polysaccharide) it is necessary to chew the food rich with fiber longer and consequently the feeling of satiety comes earlier, than you have time to eat too much. Fiber quickly fills stomach, but passes through digestive system almost not digested and consequently an organism acquires only insignificant quantity of calories. Following such diet you do not feel hunger as the rough food, is digested longer, than refined products.
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DASH – presented to the book of Thomas Moore with the same name, the MD of medicine, has been created by group of therapists on purpose to find out, whether there can be a diet not medicament-based means of treatment of a hypertension. The diet consists in selection of the products containing calcium, magnesium and potassium, and the limited consumption of sodium. As the book affirms, you will notice changes of the blood pressure within two weeks.
“Jenny Craig” – the paid center where you get helped to lose weight. Its mix of classes where you learn to supervise the weight, and a master class of fashionable diet.
Substantive provisions of the given program for weight loss remained invariable throughout all time of existence, but various schemes were offered to clients and they updated all the time.
My husband and I just received our first order and were sent a flayer that stated bread is no longer continued. I called to ask what we were supposed to do with the 35 menu items that were supposed to get the rolls. They stated to buy our own bread. When I asked if I could ship back these items for something else, I was told it was up to me to pay for the shipping. When I asked to speak to a manager about the situation, I was given to a person who was not available and had to leave a message. Who knows when I will get called back. So beware they change things on their menu plan on a whim and you are stuck with the consequences. What an unfortunate system. Their program is too expensive to be playing those types of games.
From Leslie (Montgomery, AL)
I have tried this diet and Atkins and I prefer the Atkins diet. I know friends that are on this Beverly Hills Diet and they have all remained thin for months. Do major research before starting any diet of this nature and make sure to follow the diet exactly how the book instructs you to do. I found out the hard way years ago.
From Eddie (Tallahassee, FL)
A year ago, I lost 15 pounds (got down to my target weight) and lowered my cholesterol 77 points eating pretty much the way South Beach recommends – no refined starches (bread and pasta must be whole grain), no (or almost no) sugar, and brown instead of white rice. Also, no full animal fats, “good” fats – like olive and canola oil. Low fat dairy.
I have always been against most “diet” plans, but I read an excerpt from the South Beach book, and found that it totally made sense, gave me a good explanation of what went on when I ate refined carbs, and gave me helpful lists of good foods to eat. Read more
Doing this diet last year was a very gratifying experience. I lost weight at a very quick rate, somewhere between 32-36 lbs in less than 2 1/2 months. My goal was to lose 100 lbs. I stopped following the diet because of all the bad hype and decided to join Weight Watchers. As soon as I did that, I noticed my desire for carbs and junk was back in full force.
Review from Jenny (New York, NY)