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Is south
beach diet a fad
or is it fact?
South Beach Diet is one
of the more
healthy yet popular weight loss diets. Unlike others like Atkins
Diet,
South Beach seems to go down fairly well with health experts.
Just
like Hampton's Diet
this
diet
is derived from a book, 'South Beach Diet' and is by a doctor, Dr
Arthur Agatston.
Dr
Agatston is a cardiologist, associate professor of medicine at the
University of Miami Medical School. Dr Agatston developed the South
Beach Diet as an eating plan for his heart patients to improve their
cholesterol and insulin levels.
It
is considered as one of the famous weight loss
diets due to unsolicited endorsements by celebrities.
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refers to such diets as celebrity diets.
It includes a version for vegetarians. Along side the book there is
also South Beach Diet online, which seems to be more popular.
The
online
weight loss version uses an interactive web page as a
companion and guide during the weight loss period. Here you find links
to;
- nutritionist,
- live
Q&A sessions,
- interactive
tools to track you weight loss,
- customizable
meal plans,
- and
recipes more than those found in the South beach Diet book.
The
individually customizable web page is meant to be central in the South
Beach Diet for advice, motivation and support. This is done usually
through message boards, chats with "beach buddies" and in-house
experts.
South Beach Diet online has a complete
meal scheduler, it even
allows you to develop a private journal to make entries about your
progress; which you may or may not choose to share with the public.
The south beach diet guides you through the dieting program in three
stages as follows:
South Beach Diet Strict Phase
This
is the first stage and is called strict because it is restrictive on
what foods you may eat. Everyone joining South Beach Diet is encouraged
to start from here. It is supposedly designed to eliminate cravings for
starch and sweets. Now it is this kind of statements that can start you
into thinking, this is fad. More often than not, craving in this case
may be more of a psychological than physiological.
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differentiates physiological
cravings from
psychological ones. Both create a tendency to over-indulge by default.
However they require different techniques to resolve. Most diets
including this one always approach it from a physiological aspect.
The emphasis of a high protein, high fat low
carbohydrates diet puts
the south beach diet among the contentious Low Carb Diets.
We do know now that low carb diets are effective for short-term loss of
weight. However the argument forwarded by South Beach Diet promoters is
that this phase detoxifies the blood off excess glucose, bringing blood
sugar under control. Considering this diet was first designed to
control blood sugar this is to be expected.
Previously
a high fat diet
was thought to increase the risk of heart disease but now we know it is
not so. And even if it was, the strict phase of south beach diet lasts
only two weeks and it would not really have an adverse effect on an
otherwise healthy individual. Contrary to previous beliefs, diet high
in "good" fats is known to reduce risks of heart disease.
The South Beach Diet Weight Loss Stage
This
phase naturally follows phase one. But if you start dieting with low
body fat you will be allowed to start from this stage. In this stage
you will be reintroducing carbohydrates back into your diet after
eliminating them in the first phase. The south beach diet is specific
to only what they call "right carbs", these are essentially low
Glycemic Index (G.I) carbohydrates.
Low G.I carbs
are carbohydrates
that do not result to sharp increase in the blood sugar after
consumption. There a whole bunch of diets based on this concept called Glycemic Index
Diets. Keeping in mind that the first stage stabilized your
blood sugar, this stage maintains it within safe levels.
Phase
two is
nutritionally and metabolically designed for loss of body fat. Body fat
metabolism occurs in the presence of oxygen and some carbohydrates. In
the near complete absence of carbs, the body may think it is starving
and end up holding more onto body fat the higher energy source and use
muscle tissue instead as source of energy.
Reintroduction
of
carbohydrates continues until one reaches what the South Beach Diet
calls carbohydrate tolerance. This is the point were consumption of
carbs results to increase in weight meaning the body is now getting
excess calories. This stage varies from person to person.
It
is
naturally expected that by the time you are at carb tolerance,
carbohydrates will be the major source of calories in your diet, at
least for most people. This is probably why South Beach Diet promoters
say that South Beach Diet is not a low carb weight loss diet.
The South Beach Diet Maintenance Stage
This
is the last stage, where the participant is released into the real
world. The assumption is that you have acquired enough lifestyle change
to maintain your success.
In conclusion, it would
be wrong to classify
South Beach Diet among the fads. Flirting with contentious dietary
issues doesn't make it fad. However, lack of a comprehensive exercising
regime in the South Beach Diet is quite fad like.
Many
diets, including
South Beach, may need some adjustments so that they can be effective to
an individual.
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