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Mediterranean and Low Carb Diets Shine in Study
A landmark study comparing Low fat, Low carb and Mediterranean diets over a 2 year period has shown low carb and Mediterranean diets to be favorable alternatives to low fat. The study looked at weight loss, blood lipids, glycemic control and inflammation.
Let's explore the study details and see what applications may arise from it.
» moreBig Breakfast Diet: A Diet That Works?
Stop me if you've heard this before... but before you click out, keep reading - it gets interesting. Eating a big breakfast with copious amounts of (gulp) carbs and protein, followed by a low carb, low calorie diet the rest of the day has shown some pretty promising results - and get this; obliterates the low carb only! This according to a new study presented at The Endocrine Society's 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
I will now attempt to break this down in the simplest terms possible (so that I can understand what I've written).
» moreThe Good and the Bad of Good Calories, Bad Calories
Now that the dust has settled a bit after the much ballyhooed release of Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories, I hereby offer a critique of it. It took me a while to finally get a copy, read and digest it, plus a 2 week decompression exercise that consisted of reading nothing but People Magazine. Note: Regina Wilshire wrote a fantastic synopsis/commentary of the book here.
» moreGood Calories, Bad Calories
In the recently published book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease, Gary Taubes challenges our dietary beliefs, often accepted as true, by approaching the published research from the perspective of a skeptic.
Taubes finds much of what we think lacks support from findings from data published throughout the last century.
» moreChuck the Apples, Pass the Mashed Potatoes?
For those of us who feel virtuous choosing a big bowl of fruit salad over a serving of mashed potatoes or pasta: a new research report warns that we may not be choosing as wisely as we think. The researchers say fructose, even when consumed in whole fruits, may be more of a problem than starchy foods when it comes to insulin regulation, diabetes and obesity.
The Lunch Box Diet
The Lunch Box Diet is a small downloadable document (10 pages) from UK personal trainer Simon Lovell. Although Simon describes the diet as "no fad" its recent appearance in Elle Magazine may well change that.
So what is the "lunch box diet"?
» morePaleolithic Diet Better Than Mediterranean Diet?
A controlled study of Type 2 diabetics shows that a "stone-age" or paleolithic diet is better at controlling symptoms than a Mediterranean diet.
The main result was that the blood sugar rise in response to carbohydrate intake was markedly lower after 12 weeks in the Paleolithic group (–26%), while it barely changed in the Mediterranean group (–7%). At the end of the study, all patients in the Paleolithic group had normal blood glucose. (via ScienceDaily)» more
Atkins Diet: Most Weight Loss
A randomized trial has compared Atkins, Zone Diet, Ornish, and LEARN. Over a period of 12 months weight loss on Atkins was significantly greater than the other three diets. Those using Atkins also "experienced more favorable overall metabolic effects".
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