Some Diets Out There are Dangerous!
I would like to break down a couple to shed some light on the veracity of their claims
. I chose the two that have recently been getting attention. To be honest, I am astonished that these books are still on the shelves. Please let me be clear, I am not against "diet books" per se, it is just that some of them are truly hurting people, and that infuriates me. There are plenty of "diet" type books out there that support healthy eating, but then again they are "diet" books. And a diet it something someone does for a short period of time to achieve a goal. Afterwards, almost all of them leave you hanging and wondering, "What do I do now?" I believe in making healthy changes that will support a healthy life. My plan allows the body to reclaim the energy of youth, supporting it's nutritional needs so that you experience a sense of actually growing younger, feeling your physical, mental, and emotional load lightening every day. I believe there is only one way to lose weight and to keep it off, and that's by making changes in your lifestyle, not changing things for a few weeks around the holidays.
I would like to start with Dr. Atkins. More so than any other plan, I have recently begun hearing many people speak about trying the Atkins Diet. That people would want to use his method always surprises me. Read on to understand why that is.
The Atkins Diet Right from the start Dr. Atkins advises us to eat a cheeseburger when hungry. He also suggests that "[eating] rich foodscan be the [path] to weight loss." He promises we will see "amazing results in 14 days." His book has sold over six million copies. Now this number would seem to suggest that everyone and her grandmother is on this plan, and that makes me feel as if I am missing out on something. However, I tend to be wary when a diet plan promises that I can eat whatever I want and that losing weight will be very easy for the first time in my life. I get suspicious when I hear that my weight will basically drop off without much effort. And, unfortunately, my doubts are not unfounded, because, alas, not much of what he claims is actually true.
As you might know, Dr. Atkins' diet is based on the process of ketosis. He actually says, "Ketosis is an indicator used at the Atkins Center as a marker for whether a person is staying on the diet.the Atkins diet is a lifelong nutritional philosophyThe important thing is that you are in ketosis."
The real deal with Atkins is that by restricting your caloric intake, you enter the state of ketosis. Ketosis occurs when there is an imbalance in metabolizing fat; the same thing occurs in diabetes or starvation. In ketosis, the body begins to metabolize muscle tissue instead of fat and Atkins actually touts the weight loss advantages of this!
Some say that if it brings about weight loss, then what's the problem? The problem lies in what he doesn't bother to tell you: the consequences of long-term ketosis are muscle breakdown, nausea, dehydration, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, bad breath, kidney problems, and increased risk of heart disease. He also doesn't bother to tell you that a potential consequence of extended ketosis for diabetics is death, and for pregnant women, fetal abnormality or death.
The American Institute for Cancer Research cautioned consumers considering trying the Atkins plan.
The Atkins diet can lead to the kind of rapid weight fluctuations that adversely affect the heart. Moreover, the breakdown of fatty acids that occurs during ketosis may also increase the risk of heart disease. One of the basic tents of Atkins' diet is that sugar causes cancer. Such misleading pronouncements are essentially scare tactics, meant to direct the dieter towards foods on the Atkins plan. Finally, nothing about this plan encourages the dieter to learn some very basic weight management strategies like portion control and serving sizes, let alone develop the skills necessary for a lifetime of balanced nutrition.
This is a diet that consists largely of pork rinds and sausage, not to mention bacon, pork, steak, seafood, eggs, butter, cream, and artificial sweeteners. I hope I'm not turning you guys on mentioning all of these foods, because even though the Atkins diet will help you lose weight, for a moment, it is absolutely the worst diet you could imagine for promoting long-term obesity, heart disease, and some forms of cancer. This type of diet will ruin your health, and I honestly cannot believe that they still have his books out on the shelves. Furthermore, I am astonished that so many people still find their way back to this way of eating. !
Let's move on to the next diet book that gets a lot of attention. In Eat Right for Your Type, Peter J. D'Adamo suggests that there are four different ideal diets, one for each blood type: A, B, AB, and O. If you follow the diet that is "right for your blood type," you can lose weight, cure ear infections, fight off cancer, heal yourself from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and much, much, more. He says that by "eating right for your type," you will be eating like your prehistoric ancestors.
Now this sounds good, and it's a very interesting readbut. Dr. Stephen Bailey, a nutritional anthropologist at the Tufts University Health and Nutrition Center, says that D'Adamo has his blood typing all wrong.
It's a fallacy even to speak of original' type O's or original' type A's because blood types did not originate with humans. They came on the biologic scene long before humans did. Furthermore, there is no anthropologic evidence whatsoever that all prehistoric people with a particular blood type ate the same diet.
Simply put, D'Adamo says that if you are of blood type A, then you should follow a mostly vegetarian diet and to eat plenty of snails. If you are of type O then you should eat a mostly red meat diet. Type B, should eat plenty of dairy products, in addition to plenty of rabbit, lamb, and mutton. And the AB's, should avoid corn, peppers, olives, sunflowers seeds, sesame seeds, and lima beans, but should eat jam, jellies, rabbit and turkey.
The fact of the matter is that many people have lost weight on his diet, as all diets actually do work for short-term weight loss. However, the reason people lose weight isn't actually because of they specific diet, per se, but because they are all low in calories, sometimes as low as 1,000 calories in a given day.
Let me finish by quoting the Department at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Eating Right For Your Type is not only one of the most preposterous books on the market, but also one of the most frightening. It contains just enough scientific sounding nonsense, carefully woven into a complex theory, to actually seem convincing to the uninitiatedD'Adamo has pieced together the outrageous hypothesis that blood type determines which foods an individual should or should not eatThis outrageous theory is nothing short of sheer nonsense. Were there any truth in it, it's reasonable to hypothesize that the human race would have died out centuries ago.
I couldn't have said it better myself!
Some of the information in this weeks DYK came from "The Food Revolution", by John Robbins.
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