what is the healthiest diet to live by forever?
vegetarianism, pescatarianism? atkins, south beach, or simple healthy eating, everything-in-appropriate-amounts diet?
thaaaaanks:]. and FYI i am trying to lose weight in a way which i can stay by.
I advocate a high fat diet, more commonly referred to as a low carb diet or a high protein diet which is actually a misnomer. Though the carbohydrates are low, the protein is only a little higher than adequate but the magic happens in this plan with the fat.
Normalizing blood pressure, blood sugar, insulin, cholesterol, triglyercerides and hormone levels are all bonus features of doing a low carb way of eating. Atkins program was a cardiologist’s health plan easier sold as a "diet" (since weight loss was just a side benefit).
Glucose is the bodies preferred fuel (if you want to get technical, if actually burns alcohol most efficiently, but that doesn’t make it any healthier for the body than carbs), the body can convert 100% of carbs, 58% of protein & 10% of dietary fat into glucose. The body can also be fueled by fat (dietary fat & fat cells) but only in the absence of carbs. Your brain actually prefers to be fueled by ketones (part of the fat burning process), only the heart requires glucose, but glucose can be easily converted from fat stores or excess protein if needed or dietary fat.
Your body requires fats, you will die without them. Your body requires protein, you will die without them. You will die if you eat protein without fat. You do not require carbohydrates. The body can manufacture all it needs from the protein/fat combination.
High fat, adequate protein and very low carbs will after 3 days convert your body to burning fat as fuel (ketosis). While in ketosis you will burn dietary fat and if dietary fat is more than sufficient, body fat directly. High calories will keep the metabolism at maximum fat burning capabilities.
Eating carbohydrates while trying to lose body fat is terribly inefficient. When in glycolysis (burning glucose as fuel) you have to lower your calories (which slows your metabolism) and exercise heavily to deplete your glycogen stores before burning body fat.
A calorie is not a calorie. The body does not follow logical mathematical equations. Metabolism is controlled by nutrition. You can’t eat 600/1200/2000 calories of fruit (pick a number, it doesn’t matter – only the amount of fat stored changes) , your body will treat it as being starved (which it is, starved of nutrition) and will shut down your metabolism as if you’re eating nothing, but will store every possible ounce as fat. Inversely, you wont gain weight on 4000 or more calories of fat & protein (if fat is 65% of calories) because insulin (the fat storage hormone) is not activated.
Your body won’t release fat stores if you lower calories below what it needs. It will slow your metabolism to compensate & store every spare ounce as fat. If you continue lowering your calories, it will continue lowering that set point, til you can survive off nothing and store fat on anything. The body will only release it’s fat stores if it knows there is plenty of food. Read the diet boards about the young girls eating 600 calories a day for months (but fruit is so healthy!) & not losing weight and considering lowering their calories further. Sure they lose some weight at first but it’s water weight & lean tissue but their bodies become fat storage machines.
Although it is completely possible to live on a fat/protein only diet for long term (as proven by research done in a hospital setting) it becomes boring fairly quickly. Luckily many, many vegetables and some fruits, nuts and seeds are low in carbs and greatly expand the diet. Most long term low carbers eat as many, if not more non starchy vegetables than vegetarians.
Detractors of the high fat, high protein Atkins diet claim that Dr. Dean Ornish’s low-fat vegetarian diet as the optimal diet. I believe that Atkins & Ornish’s plans are not that incompatible, they both promote ultimate health as their goal. They both agree that the major problem occurs when you mix carbs with fat. They both agree that highly refined non nutritional carbs with man made fats (trans fats, hydrogenated fats) in mass quantities produces the current obesity/health degradation epidemic that is of global concern.
Ultimately, your diet needs to be what can you live with? I personally wouldn’t be happy living without meat, fat, cheese. I like not having calorie restrictions. It’s easier for me to do without than to do "in moderation".
Probably a vegetarian one.
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I am a practitioner of the Body for Life program (but I don’t spend tons of money on their products, I use generic brands mostly).
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BS in Kinesiology from Penn State Univ.
everything-in-appropriate-amounts
this way you have a better chance of sticking to it
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Do not become a vegetarian!!!!!!!!!
You would need to see a specialist about this. They will take your IGf-1 levels and all that good stuff.
No one can tell you this online.
It has to be done through testing
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I am Dr. Pure
I advocate a high fat diet, more commonly referred to as a low carb diet or a high protein diet which is actually a misnomer. Though the carbohydrates are low, the protein is only a little higher than adequate but the magic happens in this plan with the fat.
Normalizing blood pressure, blood sugar, insulin, cholesterol, triglyercerides and hormone levels are all bonus features of doing a low carb way of eating. Atkins program was a cardiologist’s health plan easier sold as a "diet" (since weight loss was just a side benefit).
Glucose is the bodies preferred fuel (if you want to get technical, if actually burns alcohol most efficiently, but that doesn’t make it any healthier for the body than carbs), the body can convert 100% of carbs, 58% of protein & 10% of dietary fat into glucose. The body can also be fueled by fat (dietary fat & fat cells) but only in the absence of carbs. Your brain actually prefers to be fueled by ketones (part of the fat burning process), only the heart requires glucose, but glucose can be easily converted from fat stores or excess protein if needed or dietary fat.
Your body requires fats, you will die without them. Your body requires protein, you will die without them. You will die if you eat protein without fat. You do not require carbohydrates. The body can manufacture all it needs from the protein/fat combination.
High fat, adequate protein and very low carbs will after 3 days convert your body to burning fat as fuel (ketosis). While in ketosis you will burn dietary fat and if dietary fat is more than sufficient, body fat directly. High calories will keep the metabolism at maximum fat burning capabilities.
Eating carbohydrates while trying to lose body fat is terribly inefficient. When in glycolysis (burning glucose as fuel) you have to lower your calories (which slows your metabolism) and exercise heavily to deplete your glycogen stores before burning body fat.
A calorie is not a calorie. The body does not follow logical mathematical equations. Metabolism is controlled by nutrition. You can’t eat 600/1200/2000 calories of fruit (pick a number, it doesn’t matter – only the amount of fat stored changes) , your body will treat it as being starved (which it is, starved of nutrition) and will shut down your metabolism as if you’re eating nothing, but will store every possible ounce as fat. Inversely, you wont gain weight on 4000 or more calories of fat & protein (if fat is 65% of calories) because insulin (the fat storage hormone) is not activated.
Your body won’t release fat stores if you lower calories below what it needs. It will slow your metabolism to compensate & store every spare ounce as fat. If you continue lowering your calories, it will continue lowering that set point, til you can survive off nothing and store fat on anything. The body will only release it’s fat stores if it knows there is plenty of food. Read the diet boards about the young girls eating 600 calories a day for months (but fruit is so healthy!) & not losing weight and considering lowering their calories further. Sure they lose some weight at first but it’s water weight & lean tissue but their bodies become fat storage machines.
Although it is completely possible to live on a fat/protein only diet for long term (as proven by research done in a hospital setting) it becomes boring fairly quickly. Luckily many, many vegetables and some fruits, nuts and seeds are low in carbs and greatly expand the diet. Most long term low carbers eat as many, if not more non starchy vegetables than vegetarians.
Detractors of the high fat, high protein Atkins diet claim that Dr. Dean Ornish’s low-fat vegetarian diet as the optimal diet. I believe that Atkins & Ornish’s plans are not that incompatible, they both promote ultimate health as their goal. They both agree that the major problem occurs when you mix carbs with fat. They both agree that highly refined non nutritional carbs with man made fats (trans fats, hydrogenated fats) in mass quantities produces the current obesity/health degradation epidemic that is of global concern.
Ultimately, your diet needs to be what can you live with? I personally wouldn’t be happy living without meat, fat, cheese. I like not having calorie restrictions. It’s easier for me to do without than to do "in moderation".
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The Spartan Diet is the healthiest diet to live by forever: http://thespartandiet.blogspot.com/
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