Myths and Facts of Fad Dieting

 

In this video, Keri Glassman, contributor to “Women’s Health” magazine and author of “The O2 Diet,” sheds light on to what so many of us weight loss advocates have become victim to at one time or another- the fad diet.

Fad diets are attractive in that you acheive a small amount of weight loss in a short amount of time. In today’s age of instant gratification and getting to most result for a limited amount of effort, fad diets are extremely popular. What most people fail to look at is long term results. As soon as you resume normal eating from a fad diet, you most always gain the weight back. It’s a vicous circle of starving and binging- one that results in frustration and no long term solutions.

In this clip, Glassman discusses four popular fad diets. The links provide a more detailed look at each fad diet.

1. The Morning Banana Diet- Eat as many bananas you want for breakfast with lukewarm water. Though bananas are fiber rich and full of potassium, they have no magic weight loss ingrediant. Incorporating fruit into your diet is good, but everything should be in moderation
2. The Cookie Diet- Again, for short term weight loss, this diet is a pre-packaged excuse for eating healthy. Cookies cannot be subsituted for meals that ought to contain essential nutrients the body needs.
3. The Grapefruit Diet- Much like the Morning Banana Diet, this diet is good in the sense that it promotes eating fruit, but again, there is no secret ingrediant in the grapefruit. Eating fruit reguarly as a part of a clean eating diet will result in long term weight management versus a quick fix.
4. The Cabbage Soup Diet- This diet has been around for years and is the popular go-to detox diet for those in a hurry to drop a couple pounds. The calorie restriction in this diet often leads to gaining all the weight back when normal foods are introduced back into the body.

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A beginner’s tutorial

This video explains the first steps you need to take to start eating clean. Anyone who is new to this eating trend or does not know how to go about starting it- watch and learn!

Eating Clean Tips

So what exactly makes a diet clean?
In today’s day in age, we spend so much time running around everywhere trying to carry out as many things possible as we can into one shortened time frame. The result usually results in scrounging for time and eating cheaply on the go because of it. Even if it is not fast food, those nutrition protein bars and slim shakes in the diet aisle in the grocery store don’t exactly help your diet either. Many foods contain additives and chemicals that do not do anything for your body besides slow it down and put stress on it. Here is a clip from Rachel Richardson, a dietician in Miami, who explains the basic factors in eating clean.

Richardson quickly goes over the toxins not to put in your body. Here is basic breakdown and definition of each of the harmful additions to someone’s diet she mentions.

• Pesticides: A substance or mixture of substances used to kill a pest.
• Hormones: Hormones are fed to animals to make them gain weight faster and increase their milk production. This shortens the wait period of producing the animals into food, so it essentially profits the meat and dairy industries for their short, fast production timeline. These synthetically used hormones, when consumed by humans, have been proven to show a cancer risk. 
• Flavoratives- MSG: Monosodium glutamate is a crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor. Studies show that MSG causes us to consume more food.
• Hydrogenated Fats:  Fats to which hydrogen has been added; usually causing them to be saturated.

 

Getting Started

Every clean, healthy diet must start with some core fundamentals. In this clip, Lisa Hark, a registered dietitian from the University of Pennsylvania, relays five basic tips you need to carry with you as you begin detoxing your diet of preservatives and artificial ingredients.

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In order to eat clean, you must first become familiarized with the actual process and its Do’s and Don’ts. Eating clean is not just another diet. It’s not just another trend or fad to try. It’s a way of life. You no longer have to worry about depriving the body of certain foods in order to maintain a certain weight. Eating clean revitalizes the body and makes it function the way it’s supposed to.

In the article attached, nutritional freelancer Jennifer Murray gives a complete breakdown of what eating clean actually entails. Essentially, it means eating the healthiest versions of food.

Murray provides a lot of terminology in her article, so I am going to define a few.

• Saturated Fat: A type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat. Found in butter, meat, and yolks; in humans, tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood
• Monounsaturated Fat: Fatty acids that have a single double bond in the fatty acid chain
• Polyunsaturated Fat: Fatty acids that have more than one double bond.
• (Basic breakdown: Trans fat and saturated fat = bad. Mono and Polyunsaturated fat = good in moderation) 
• Refined Carbohydrates: Also referred to as simple carbohydrates. They are highly concentrated and reduce fiber and nutrients.
• Processed Food: Any food that is derived from its natural, raw state.
• High Fructose Corn Syrup: In the 1970s, we started to produce sweetness from corn instead of sugar beets or sugar canes because it was much less expensive to produce. Corn sweeteners are a processed sugars. In short, you treat corn with an acid and it makes sugar. Unused amounts of high fructose corn syrup are stored as fat cells.

Definitions compliments of Right Health

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