Posted by bluedog on December 21, 2002, at 8:30:32
In reply to Re: Carbs are being unfairly demonised!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! » bluedog, posted by Dinah on December 20, 2002, at 4:43:19
> The Atkins diet is pretty old isn't it? I know sugarbusters and the zone are newer. Is Atkins back in favor?
I think the Atkins diet is about 25 years old. However there seems to be a a million and one modified Atkins diets being marketed at the moment including the Zone Diet. They basically all seem to try and tell us that carbs are evil.
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> I think all I really need to do to drop weight and improve my health is to eliminate sugary drinks. But short term they feel so good and are wonderful energizers!!I don't think you should deny yourself sugary drinks if they give you pleasure. Don't eliminate these drinks, just take them in moderation. Did you know that the French have a much lower rate of heart disease than the rest of western society. This is not because they eliminate so called "bad" foods from their diet but becuase they turn eating into a social and cultural event that floods there bodies with pleasure hormones according to the following article see http://www.redflagsweekly.com/kendrick/2002_nov14P.html.
I like to extrapolate the conclusions of this hypothesis and say that trying to adhere to strict diets like the zone diet or atkins diet etc only creates guilt and anxiety in people which is completely counter-productive for your health and why these diets ultimately fail in the long term unless you have superhuman self discipline (I definitely don't possess this quality)I'm a Coke (the Cola variety) addict! Yes it gives me an almost immediate lift in energy but I also know too much makes me anxious. That's why I try to take my Coke together with low GI carbs to try and moderate the extreme highs and lows I know that Coke will give me.
By the way, I believe that eating all healthy foods (and some so called unhealthy foods) in moderation PLUS to underetake regular exercise is the best and ONLY way to lose weight permanently. People always seem to want to avoid good regular aerobic exercise and are constantly looking for the magic diet that will make them lose weight without putting in any physical effort.
I believe this is why the modified Atkins diets are selling so well at the moment (I mean it sounds pretty seductive to be told you will lose weight by consuming as much rump steak as you want as long as you don't have potatoes or pasta with it).
People should really go back to basics and put some effort into learning about the basics of human nutrition and physiology rather than resorting to the latest fad diets ( I mean there are books out there telling you how to "eat right for your blood type"....HONESTLY, give me a break....please!!!!!!!) These so called diet experts are preying on desperate people as far as I'm concerned.
Just my humble opinion
keep well
bluedog
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