Low fat? High fat?
Low protein? High Protein? Eat only cabbage? Drink
only wheatgrass? With the plethora of conflicting diets
available on the market today, it's no wonder that those having to
watch their weight are left to sift through all the confusion. The
reality is, when it comes to sensible dieting advice, it seems the
best place to turn to is medical science. Through careful
analysis drawn from clinical studies presided over by The American
Heart Association and the American Dietetic Association, clearer facts
about what makes a good diet are coming to light.
To begin with, good diets have two key components:
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The ability to give us control over the amount of energy
we
consume, and hence, the amount of fat which accumulates on our
bodies
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A wide varying selection of healthy food groups
Unfortunately, most diets don't live up to one or even both
criteria. Diets which restrict the food groups from which we can
eat, excluding some and overeating in others, can have a serious
deleterious affect on our health, and importantly, don't teach you
anything about sustainable, long-term fat loss. And this is
where most diets do fail. Creating an "artificial" eating
environment, for example from packaged foods, teaches you nothing
about the actual eating habits that are needed to sustain weight loss
once your initial dieting period is over.
So which diet do dieticians recommend? Only diets which are
balanced, calorie controlled, and set about educating you in the right
way of eating and giving you long term independence, get the
dieticians tick.
The National Diet Center carefully evaluates new and existing diets
everyday. Following the guidelines set by the American Dietetic
Association, we recommend a diet like
The Weight Loss International
Slim for Life Program which is designed to give you the right
skills to maintain permanent weight loss, and allows a choice of
fresh, healthy foods.
Most importantly, avoid fad diets and promises of rapid, miraculous
fat loss. Research has shown that fast loss is always fluid
loss, and more muscle than fat is lost in the process.
Which diet will you choose?
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