Diet Discovery

I am interested in starting the New Direction weight loss program which uses ketosis in order to maximize weight loss. By doing so and maintaining healthy eating habits, what is the likelihood of regaining weight?
The program is carefully monitored by nurse practitioners and my family doctor through blood tests and ekgs.

Quick weight loss does not work on any diet. The weight always comes back plus more. If you reduce your caloric intake by 500 calories per day you will lose one pound per week and most of the weight will not come back.

Whats the rationale? Do they think you won’t eat unless forced to (the money you pay at the beginning of the year is a sunk cost, so it makes the meals you get effectively free, although you’re still out $3,000 or so for th year)

Is it nothing more than a hidden tuition increase?

I did the math and my meal plan comes out to about $8/meal. This is ridiculous. You can eat out and get better quality food for less than $8.

It isn’t a hidden tuition increase, but the reason is almost undoubtedly economic. Most colleges contract with outside companies to provide their foodservice. The more students there are on the meal plan, the more of a quantity discount is offered to the university by the outside food company. Thus, the fewer students who sign up for the meal plan, the higher the cost has to be for the students who remain on the meal plan. Thus, in order to be able to secure decent foodservice rates, some schools (especially those with limited numbers of resident students) require the meal plan.

Know that it is unfair to compare campus meal services and restaurants, because a restaurant can always attract another patron if it loses one. A campus foodservice is limited to those on campus who participate in its programs. If only 5% of students sign up for the meal plan, they can’t look to other audiences to spread out their fixed costs.

You also need to realize that although you could undoubtedly find cheaper food elsewhere, the likelihood that you would be able to get off campus repeatedly for this food, unless your school is a terribly urban campus in the middle of an affordable restaurant district, is poor. My school is in the middle of a city, but to get off campus to get something to eat in the middle of the day, find something to eat, and get back on campus (including re-parking a vehicle) can take a couple of hours. I hate our school’s food, and often bring in lunch, but I would not dream of going off-campus to eat because of the time it would waste.

What is the best method for quick weight loss for teens? Many want to know this, and for good reason. Let’s face it, as more and more teens spend hours watching TV and being less active, being overweight is not all that uncommon.

Fortunately, there are some ways to help you lose weight quickly, so here are some tips to help you do so. First things first-while exercise is very important for quick weight loss for teens, eating is perhaps even more so in terms of not only losing weight, but also living a healthy life.

If you don’t eat the correct foods, your attempts to lose weight are shot. One of the first things to realize is that restricting your food intake is not the answer-it never is. This will only force you to be hungry all the time, which will result in binging from time to time, and therefore gaining even more weight than before.

Also, weight loss pills are definitely not the answer for easy weight loss for teens. You can lose all the weight you want from eating right and working out, and pills are an unnatural and unhealthy method to lose weight.

Sure, they might help you lose weight fast, but you will become more unhealthy in the process, and chances are, the results will not last.

Don’t ever starve yourself to lose weight fast. Sure, not eating will help you lose weight, but it is not sustainable, and as soon as you start eating again, the weight will come back with a vengeance, in all likelihood more than before.

Also, the kind of weight you lose with this method is muscle, and not fat, so you don’t want to starve yourself, as this simply is not a healthy or effective way to drop those pounds.

Detoxifying your body is the best method for quick weight loss for. What does this mean? I’d recommend you cleanse the system of anything unhealthy in it, by only consuming natural foods.

What does this mean? Any fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, and some grains are fair game, but avoid meat and dairy products, and basically anything man made. Also, consider juicing vegetables daily, as this will help you get the benefit of the vegetables much quicker than you would by eating them.

This is a very effective method for getting rid of the harmful foods and toxins you will have in your body, and you might find yourself not feeling well during the process, which is actually a positive sign, because it means the body is getting rid of the harmful things inside it.

You might even consider only consuming fruits and vegetable juices during this time period, as these are the two best foods to detoxify your system. Sure, doing this will not be fun, but it’s only for a short time. there are many sites online that can recommend more about this, such as specific foods to eat and how long to go about this for.

This is only a temporary process, and I’d recommend you try and eat more natural foods in the future, as this is the best method to help you lose weight, along with an effective exercise program.

Shawn Mitchell

What is the best method for quick weight loss for teens? Many want to know this, and for good reason. Let’s face it, as more and more teens spend hours watching TV and being less active, being overweight is not all that uncommon.

Fortunately, there are some ways to help you lose weight quickly, so here are some tips to help you do so. First things first-while exercise is very important for quick weight loss for teens, eating is perhaps even more so in terms of not only losing weight, but also living a healthy life.

If you don’t eat the correct foods, your attempts to lose weight are shot. One of the first things to realize is that restricting your food intake is not the answer-it never is. This will only force you to be hungry all the time, which will result in binging from time to time, and therefore gaining even more weight than before.

Also, weight loss pills are definitely not the answer for easy weight loss for teens. You can lose all the weight you want from eating right and working out, and pills are an unnatural and unhealthy method to lose weight.

Sure, they might help you lose weight fast, but you will become more unhealthy in the process, and chances are, the results will not last.

Don’t ever starve yourself to lose weight fast. Sure, not eating will help you lose weight, but it is not sustainable, and as soon as you start eating again, the weight will come back with a vengeance, in all likelihood more than before.

Also, the kind of weight you lose with this method is muscle, and not fat, so you don’t want to starve yourself, as this simply is not a healthy or effective way to drop those pounds.

Detoxifying your body is the best method for quick weight loss for. What does this mean? I’d recommend you cleanse the system of anything unhealthy in it, by only consuming natural foods.

What does this mean? Any fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, and some grains are fair game, but avoid meat and dairy products, and basically anything man made. Also, consider juicing vegetables daily, as this will help you get the benefit of the vegetables much quicker than you would by eating them.

This is a very effective method for getting rid of the harmful foods and toxins you will have in your body, and you might find yourself not feeling well during the process, which is actually a positive sign, because it means the body is getting rid of the harmful things inside it.

You might even consider only consuming fruits and vegetable juices during this time period, as these are the two best foods to detoxify your system. Sure, doing this will not be fun, but it’s only for a short time. there are many sites online that can recommend more about this, such as specific foods to eat and how long to go about this for.

This is only a temporary process, and I’d recommend you try and eat more natural foods in the future, as this is the best method to help you lose weight, along with an effective exercise program.

Shawn Mitchell

In this article, Dr. Jameth Sheridan shares candidly on the pitfalls of a raw food or vegan diet.

Renegade Roundtable with Dr. Jameth Sheridan. Dr. Sheridan is a naturopath and nutritional consultant. He and his wife Kim co-authored “Uncooking with Jameth and Kim” and they co-own and operate Health Force Nutritional.

Kevin: So you’ve been at this for 23 years now. What are some of the most common pitfalls you see with a raw food or vegan diet?

Jameth: I think the number one pitfall that a raw fooder suffers from is, based on my 23 years of experience in raw food with countless tens of thousands of people, is if they’re a regular person, they eat regular foods, and let’s say they’re ill and they go raw immediately and they get well, I actually think that is ultimately a mistake. Because I see people when they “fall off the wagon” so to speak, they fall off hard and they fall back to what they started from. So if I’m eating regular pizza and regular chicken and regular animal products, things like that, regular cookies, I fall off the wagon with raw, do things with family, I’ll just go ahead and eat those and then, you know, “When I do that, and finish with my binge, then I’ll just go back to being raw.” And, I see a lot of people leaving raw foods or just being less healthy by going back and forth between those things. Because in raw the emphasis is so hard, and this is how I was taught too, on raw, that it forgets all the other things that are important, that make a raw food diet successful. And the number one thing that makes a raw food diet successful – all of a sudden, you are a whole food vegan.

If you become vegan, all of a sudden, if you stop eating animal products, cooked or raw – which are not good for you, you had an immense increase in your health. Your likelihood to get osteoporosis has plummeted; your likelihood to get cancer has plummeted; and as a whole food vegan, your likelihood to get heart disease is almost non-existent.

Now whole food meaning, you’re not just eating white sugar, white flour, and hydrogenated oil – all of which are vegan, but all of which are absolutely abysmal for you. A whole food vegan would eat things like millet, amaranth, quinoa, chick peas, you know, grains, beans, legumes, fruits, vegetables – actual food, unadulterated by nature. You’re also eating an organic diet, when you tend to go raw, and organic is huge. These things are just additives, and you don’t just eat a whole food, organic, vegan diet, you also change completely the types of foods you’re eating. For example, you don’t go from eating, let’s say a frozen vegan pizza, cooked, to a raw frozen vegan pizza. You change your food completely. You go from eating, let’s say a frozen vegan pizza, or a regular pizza, to broccoli, and cauliflower, and fruits, and sprouts, and flaxseeds, and actual foods that are completely different types of foods. So the amount of nutrients you are getting by being a raw fooder, unless you’re fruitarian, is dramatically higher. You’re also usually consuming more water, unless you’re doing lots of dehydrated things, or lots of cacao, you’re more hydrated, which is immensely beneficial. Some diets include lots of raw vegetable juice, which is tremendously beneficial. And, you are also eating a lot of your food raw, which there is a benefit to actually having things raw too, but it’s just one of the many benefits.

In raw food teaching, there is often taught, usually taught, that there’s two categories of food: foods that are raw, and foods that are cooked, and there is nothing in between. So if you’re eating something cooked, well it might as well be cheese lasagna, rather than tofu lasagna, because in the raw food world, there’s really no difference. And I’ve seen that information devastate peoples health, and I seen it have people leave the raw foods movement who would be having, let’s say, 80, 90% of their health has improved, and like “Wow, I love this.” And maybe 10 or 20% hasn’t, or 10 or 20% may have gotten worse, for some reason, some deficiency cropped up somewhere. And, if they usually talk to the raw food leaders or look at raw food text, they say, “Well, there’s a problem with you, you’re cleansing, you’re this, you’re that, blah blah blah blah. You’ve got to stay raw, because all cooked food is poison.” Even the, you know, sometimes even with macrobiotic diets, which the healing macrobiotic diet is an all-cooked food, vegan diet, there are many people who have overcome cancer with that. Now you can’t overcome cancer on poison, and by no means am I an advocate of macrobiotics, by any stretch of the imagination, because I think macrobiotics is very depleting long term but far better than the standard American diet.

So I think it’s important to be a whole food vegan at some point, and get a good basis of that. And if raw foods is not working for some reason, don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

Kevin: So some of the deficiencies that you encounter, with raw food are, maybe…

Jameth: I’m not saying they’re widespread, I just want to make sure it’s clear. I’ve met 20 plus year raw fooders who, for the most part, were following that regime, and who appear to be vibrantly healthy and they’re in excellent health, and I have no interest in trying to change their diet whatsoever. I just want them to live optimally and have the creatures of the planet live optimally and the planet as well. But for those who do, there’s some – there’s a group of raw fooders – I don’t know how to necessarily define the types yet – but it might be, people who tend to be vata, it is, in my experience, don’t necessarily thrive on 100% raw foods. And it could be that there’s possibly deficiencies of a type of protein, because it’s not a deficiency of protein, because on raw foods, if you eat an appropriate amount of nuts and seeds – and I think you can eat way too much of those – but an appropriate amount, let’s say, one handful or so, you can get tons of protein doing that. But there’s some vata types, with my experience, take a long time to recover from working out, and it has a much harder time building muscle, just on nut and seed protein. And you can’t really eat enough broccoli, because broccoli has, I think 20 or 30% – protein, very high. But to get that much grams of protein from broccoli, it’s virtually impossible. To eat that many calories, you would actually have to juice a couple of cases of stalks of broccoli to get sufficient protein – and you would get sufficient protein in that case. But broccoli’s also a cruciferous vegetable, and I love cruciferous vegetables for the liver detoxifying, for their anti-cancer benefits and they have some hormone balancing benefits too. They’re phenomenal foods. But raw broccoli, or any raw cruciferous in a large quantity, is really, really hard to process. It’s hard to deal with. So in cases like that, I’ve seen, if people move over to the legume family, it does not have to be soy beans. Soy beans are one of hundreds of different legumes. If you don’t like soy beans for some reason, just don’t eat them – not necessary. Lentils, chick peas, mung beans, adzuki beans, things like that. Now you can certainly do those raw, but it’s ironic that one of the reasons that soy is indicted amongst the raw foods communities is because research on raw soy shows that it is very difficult to digest. It has enzyme and protein and other inhibitors in it that make it hard to deal with and hard to grow on, but that’s when the soy beans are raw. Now when you sprout any legume, any legume sprouted still has a lot of these anti-nutrients in them and it’s harder to digest and get everything out of a raw legume sprout. Now it’s almost ironic though, when you steam those legumes you do destroy all those enzyme inhibitors and the enzymes as well. But at least you’re enzymatically neutral now. You have not cooked it, or charred it, or burned it so there’s no lucocytosis raising of the white blood cell count, with steamed legumes or any steamed vegetable. For those people who don’t thrive on raw, if they do that, sprouted and steamed legumes, not lightly steamed you’ve got to steam it the whole way. Raw is just hard to digest. Most people don’t even make raw hummus anymore with raw chick peas. Have you noticed that?

Kevin: Yes.

Jameth: Because they are notoriously difficult to digest raw. I’ve made lots of raw chick pea in my day, lots of raw sprouted things and always the thing I used to do and still do is the stuff that’s left over, a dip or pate or something, well you throw it in the dehydrator and make raw chick pea burgers and eat them the next day for dinner. I did that one time and I ate the things in the morning, the raw chick pea hummus we had the day before, a whole bunch of them, I brought them to my seminar and man, I had a hard time even being in the seminar because I had so much volume of gas, that smelled so bad and I was in so much pain that I couldn’t actually socially be in the actual building. I had to walk outside.

Kevin: Wow.

Jameth: Now that was because I had a concentrated, dehydrated version. Now if you sprout chick peas, and chick peas can be hard to sprout. Sometimes they just go bad before they sprout. Now I don’t mean soak. So actually sprouted chick peas that are steamed then mixed with raw tahini, no reason in any way shape or form to cook your tahini, is phenomenally digestible. Really, really awesomely digestible and to get back, if you sprout your legumes, steam them and put a little bit of flax oil on them and salt them whether it be Himalayan salt, Celtic sea salt, a little bit of gluten free tamari or miso, some sort of good quality source of organic sodium, in my experience I have never seen that not take away someone’s craving or desire for flesh. That is so much better for you nutritionally than eating a piece of flesh, raw or not. By any measurement that science has currently come up including [indecipherable] photography, it’s far superior to do that than it is to eat raw flesh. So what I’m saying is rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water and being 100% raw, if you’re eating an animal product because you’re better off not. You’re better off eating a whole food vegan cooked food like sprouted, steamed, salted, flax oil, legume that I talked about. That’s my experience.

Kevin Gianni
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/the-pitfalls-of-a-raw-food-or-vegan-diet-681939.html

There are a ton of companies out there who promise to help you lose weight. How can you tell the companies that will waste your time, money, and energy from the ones that will actually help you achieve your goals? Here are some questions that will help you choose the best weight loss program for you.

1. Who is Going to Be Working With Me?
The best weight loss programs employ experts in the field: dieticians, nutritionists, doctors, exercise gurus, and professional counselors.

2. What Kind of Training Will I Receive?
Long term weight loss is not just about taking off a few pounds, but about keeping them off permanently. The best weight loss program for you will go beyond simple food education to help you to identify and avoid situations where you overeat, training you to live a healthier, fitter lifestyle.

3. What is the Average Weight Loss of Participants?
The best weight loss programs are glad to share their statistics with potential members, because they have a solid, positive track record of success. Steer away from any company that will not do this.

4. How Many of Your Clients Maintain Their Weight Loss?
The best weight loss program will focus on long term, not temporary, weight loss. Therefore, they should be able to tell you the percentage of members who keep the weight off over time.

5. How Flexible is the Plan?
The best weight loss program will take your food preferences into consideration. If there is no flexibility in what you are allowed to eat, the likelihood of being able to stick with the program for a lifetime is extremely slim.

6. What Will I Have to Pay?
The best weight loss program will have no hidden fees. If you are required to purchase their food or supplements, this should be revealed up front.

7. What Side Effects Can I Expect?
The best weight loss programs are able to describe their disadvantages and side effects up front, to prepare you to deal with them in advance.

By asking these seven questions before you start, you can ensure that you pick a weight loss program that fits your personal needs.

Carl Walker
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/how-to-find-the-best-weight-loss-program-174749.html

With a country whose waistlines are increasing as steadily as the years are increasing, many individuals seek out fast weight loss ideas.  Dieting has always been the first thought that comes to mind for somebody who is seeking to lose weight quickly, but can dieting produce the type of results that instant gratification seekers are looking for?

The premise of dieting

Dieting comes in different shapes and forms, and quite honestly, there’s a diet out there for every taste, temperament, and lifestyle.  However, to say with 100% certainty that dieting can lead to fast weight loss is at the very least irresponsible, and in all likelihood, an outright lie.

The way dieting works is quite simple — you simply need to control, and monitor, the number of calories that you consume on a daily basis. What many people fail to understand is that you do not always have to completely remove your favorite foods, or meals, from your diet in order to lose weight — it’s all about knowing and understanding your BMR, or Basal Metabolic Rate, and lowering your daily caloric intake to some number below your BMR.  Losing weight is dead simple, at least on paper, and this is all there is to it.

Fast weight loss through dieting

There are several problems with the concept of fast weight loss, and some that are specifically applicable to dieting.  Our bodies need a certain number of calories on a daily basis just to function.  If we do not consume enough calories, our bodies will be less effective throughout the day, will be fatigued, more prone to sickness, and whole slew of other negative side effects.  The only way to lose weight quickly through dieting is by seriously restricting your daily caloric intake, or even completely eliminating it; neither of which are recommended.

Diets can be a wonderful thing, and your diet will be even more effective if you eat the right types of foods, eat at the right time of the day, and incorporate a sensible exercise routine.  However, dieting, in almost any sense of the word you can imagine, cannot be used to help you with your fast weight loss goals.  You can lose weight quickly, albeit temporarily, through certain types of diets to help remove excess water from your body, but the losses in weight are short lived as they are technically water weight loss as opposed to fat weight loss.

At the end of the day, it’s important that you know this: fast weight loss cannot be achieved through a traditional diet, and fast-fat weight loss, at least outside of nonsurgical means, is not impossible, but implausible at best.

Rob Ferrall
http://www.articlesbase.com/weight-loss-articles/fast-weight-loss-does-dieting-work-690522.html