The land of slimming diets, is with no doubt the United States of America. New diets appear all the time; maybe because America has the greatest number of overweight and obese persons in the world, (almost 45-50 % of Americans are fat and obese).
In Europe, Britain is the fattest country. Figures show that 23% of adults are classified as obese, ahead of Spain (13%), Germany (12.9%), France (9.4%) and Italy (8.5%).
But let’s see which are the myths about diets and how they can be demolished.
There Is No Wonder Diet
It’s completely true. There are no wonder diets and no magic slimming pills. ‘The magic lies in our will to loose weight!
If you really wanna loose weight or get fat, you should go to a nutritionist to give you a personalized diet, according to your life style, your health and your food preferences.
Drastic Diets Are Noxious
True. Our body needs daily nutrients: vitamins, minerals, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates. You must not have long-term drastic diets. Yet, those who have a drastic diet, risk to have a poor defense system and thus to be predisposed to diseases and infections. So it’s not really worth to risk your health for loosing a few kilos, is it?
There Are No Visible Results on Short Term
It is not compulsory so don’t panic. What you’ve lost in seven-ten days it’s worthless if you won’t maintain your new weight on long term. Often, after giving up the slimming diet, the lost kilos are gained again. That’s why you should have a long term diet so that the body could get used to the new way of eating. Therefore: true.
Loosing Weight Means A New Life Style
It’s a must to change your eating habits when you decide to loose weight. Bad habits should disappear. There are rules to be fallowed, rules proved scientifically, that should be respected all the time, not only for a short period of time. Changing your way of living is the key to a perfect body and tonus.
A Controversial Diet – The Atkins Diet
Doctors contest the proteic controversial Atkins diet. Yet, it’s good and efficient on short term. It’s purpose is to induce to the body a certain state in order to oblige it to produce and eliminate ketones. All the fruits and the majority of vegetables are forbidden and carbohydrates are limited to 20 g per day (in sauces, different sorts of cheese, or vegetables). Bread is forbidden. This diet provokes cardio diseases, lithiasis (kidney calculus/stone).
Starvation fattens
Well, even if you don’t believe it, it’s true. Haven’t you heard people complaining that, even if they eat less, they gain in weight? They are right. Rare meals lead fatness, even when you eat one single meal per day and then with economy. Fasting, starvation, do not help you loose weight, on the contrary, because the assimilation of nutrients at that single meal is maximum. So, if you do not want to be fat, stick to three meals per day.
The Diet According to Blood Types Is Complicated
True, especially if you have to cook for three persons with different blood types. Each blood grup has its own antigen marker that reacts positive or negative to different sorts of food. The level of stomach acid and blood enzymes also depends on the blood group.
Crunching Is Harmless
False. Foods good for crunching, such as peanuts, nuts, chips, biscuits, mini brezels, seeds and salty sticks leads to the ”crunching phenomena”. This can become an automatism, and if it is practiced after dinner, it becomes dangerous for our weight.
Remember! Do not starve during the day and especially do not try to compensate the lost meals with dinner and crunching in front of the TV! If you wanna crunch something, pick a carrot or an apple!
Breakfast Is a Must
You avoided it as often as you could, I know that. Well, you have to change this habit. You should eat in the morning, not much, if you can’t or you don’t want to live for work with a full stomach. If you’ll do it daily, it will become a habit.
Another false myth: dinner is bad! False. You don’t have to skip dinner and you don’t have to eat at 5 or 6 p.m. But the last meal of the day should be at least at two hours before bedtime!
Fruits and Vegetables
Yes, they are good in diets and not only. The daily consume of fibers is very important. Yet you have to pay attention to what kind of fruit s you eat and when you eat them.
For instance, you shouldn’t eat fruits at night, because they are rich in sugar, vitamins, minerals and water and they have a high absorption ability. So eat them during the day. Avoid those rich in sugars: bananas, grapes, plums.
Dangerous Combinations
Yes, there are dangerous combinations: flour paste ware, rice, potatoes combined with fish and meat at dinner. Such a combination is like a Molotov cocktail for our body. But you still dream at such a menu, isn’t it? It’s ok, you can have pastas with meat, rice with fish at lunch, but with one condition: do some exercises, climb the stairs, avoid the elevator and go to the market by foot.
Cabbage Soup Diet
It is considered to be an extreme and dangerous diet. That’s because those who follow such a diet end at going to the doctor with hipovitaminosis, spasmophilia and mineral defaults. The purpose of a slimming diet is to feel good while you’re having it, and not to loose hair or to have exfoliated nails. Cabbage soup diet is preferred by those who can’t follow a long term diet. If you reached, the weight you wanted you mustn’t stop and you mustn’t go back to your old habits and eat a lot. If you do that, you will put on weight double as you had before keeping the diet. I’m not joking and your body is not joking either, as during the slimming diet he created a compensatory system to reduce burnings and to survive. With a low metabolism, and eating as you ate before the diet, you will definitely gain double weight.
Nutritionist’s Advice:
Avoid the foods rich in concentrated sugars because they are a real danger for your silhouette. The body very quickly absorbs Marmelade, jam, honey, icecream, sugar, chocolate, biscuits, wafles, sweet drinks, fresh juices with no added sugar. You can go for light sodas, but not much. It’s better to drink water with lemon than light sodas with additives. Remember: stay away from high amidine foods, pastas, junk food and fast food!
Physical exercises maintain your weight. You won’t loose weight if you go to the gym but you eat a lot. Physical activities accelerate the burnings but they will only maintain your weight. Yet, if you’re on diet and you go to the gym, you will shape your body and you’ll tonify your muscles.
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