Specialist Diets vs . Healthy Eating - Which Approach is best for Weight-loss?

Specialist Diets vs

Specialist Diets vs . Healthy Eating - Which Approach is best for Weight-loss?

When I talk about expert diets I am normally talking about diets such as Atkins', the cabbage soup diet plan, the drop a jean size diet, weight watchers, slim fast, slimming world, low carbs diet programs and low-fat diet plans, to name but a few. But what do all these diet programs have in common?

Most expert diet plans try to give people an easy to follow approach for restricting calorific intake, thus resulting in weight reduction. This is often dressed up as something more than just calorie restriction, but the outcome is generally the same. This is often done by limiting or removing one or more of the macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins or fats) from many or all meals throughout the day. Therefore how does this effect on from dietary requirements of the human body?

One example is the Atkins diet, which aims to modify the way the body makes its energy by practically removing carbohydrates from every meal. In Dr Atkins' book he refer to a state known as Ketosis, where fats are converted directly to energy when carbohydrates aren't present. This diet has been seen to be successful at achieving weight-loss in many research, but how can a diet plan be good for you if it alters your body's normal energy production mechanisms? Ketosis only takes place when the body is starved of carbs, but the central nervous system relies solely on carbs for energy. How can this promote good health?

Another example of these kinds of diet programs is low-fat diet plans. Low-fat diet plans acknowledge that fat accounts for a greater number of calories per gram than protein or carbs and therefore, try to minimise fat intake to decrease calorie consumption. Although saturated fat could be dangerous to the human body in large quantities, essential fatty acids play lots of significant roles like temps regulation, hormone synthesis and most significantly, the intake of many vitamins and antioxidants. Restricting fat in your diet plan may therefore lead to vitamin deficiencies, that may have a dramatic effect on a person's overall wellness.

I'm sure by now you're feeling confused about what diet you need to follow in order to manage your weight and to maintain your overall health. My suggestion would be to aim to follow a normal healthy diet program, whilst trying to evaluate and estimate your calorie intake. For many of you this won't be information that you haven't heard before, but you may have found it hard to develop a healthy diet program for yourself. Low GI (Glycemic Index) diets encourage you to eat foods from all the macronutrient groups, whilst ensuring that the food you eat releases energy gradually for sustained energy. This encompasses the principles of healthy eating.

Therefore what are the downsides of following a healthy low GI plan? The only thing that can be construed as a drawback (and wrongly so!) is that you won't see the miracle weight reduction you see when you begin a professional diet program. To address this point, (and to promote healthy eating) generally the vast amount of weight reduction in the first week of a specialist diet plan is because of water losses. When you hear of people losing three or four kilos in one week of dieting you might be amazed, but let me try to evaluate this for you. To lose 1 kg of fat you have to burn 7000 calories more than you consume and to lose 4 kg of fat would need a calorie shortage of 28,000 calories, but on average most people's bodies burn around 2500 calories per day (17,500 per week). Thus essentially it's almost physically impossible to reduce 4kg of fat in 1 week. If you follow a healthy diet plan, taking in 500 to 1000 calories less than you burn daily, you will reduce 0.5 - 1 kg each week, each and every week and your body will still get the nutrition it needs to maintain a good health. You'll also be developing an understanding of healthy eating, which you can employ for the rest of your somewhat long life!!!

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