Low-carbohydrate diet

The South Beach diet is a commercial diet created by a cardiologist, Doctor Arthur Agatston. Dr. Agatston was a professor at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida, where he used the diet for his obese cardiac patients who had trouble staying on a standard low-fat diet. The diet became popular in the 1990’s and was originally referred to as the modified low carbohydrate diet, for it is based on low glycemic index foods but then was renamed for the glamorous area of Miami where Dr.…

carbs from his diet is helping John lose weight it doesn't always mean it is the right choice of weight loss. Carbohydrates can be helpful for the body and helping with nutrients. Carbs can help with metabolism speed up by using some sugars for guidance. The negative impact of this can cause the immune system to be slower. The effects can help lose weight but it is also hurting the rest of his body. John needs to slowly introduce carbs back into his body to be healthier. A low-carb diet is…

paleo diet is one in a long line of fad diets that has captured the imagination of the country. Its supporters are posting wild lists of benefits across the Internet that seem almost too good to be true. Is such a severe diet a good idea for you during the delicate and difficult drug rehabilitation process? Read on to find out. What is the Paleo Diet? The paleo diet is a variation of the “high protein and low carbohydrate” diets that have been sweeping the nation. The creators of the paleo diet…

Carbs and diets, we all know they don’t go together. You constantly hear people saying they’re on a diet, so they can’t eat things like pasta and potatoes. Why can’t we eat these things when we are on a diet? what defines a carbohydrate? In lecture and lab, we learned all of the basics about Carbohydrates and how it is applied in real life; things like the different groups, what they do, where they come from, and their importance in the body. In lecture, we learned that carbohydrates are…

Results Subjects Eight subjects completed this study with a mean BMI of 22.18 ±2.9 kg/m2( range, 19.5-28.15),aged 22 ±1.2 year (range 21-24 year), fasting glucose concentration of high carbohydrate meal is 4.9 ±0.071 mmol ( range, 4.6-5.2 mmol) and fasting glucose concentration of high protein meal is 5.0± 0.098 mmol (range, 4.7-5.5 mmol).There is no significant differences between the two test meals in the fasting values. Metabolic response Results for plasma glucose is depicted in the…

Discussion The glycemic index of the dosa prepared from foxtail millet was low. This is due to the high levels of soluble dietary fiber in the millet. The total dietary fiber was reported to be27.02%, soluble dietary fiber 11.56% and the insoluble dietary fiber 15.44%11. It has been reported that the high viscosity of the soluble fiber delays digestion and absorption18. The glucose levels can be maintained to near normal with the help of dietary modification. It can be inferred from the above…

regarding diet and nutrition have come and gone; most claim that they are healthy, sustainable, and help you lose weight fast. While most dieting trends have been debunked or disproven, some still exist today, all while flying in the face of conventional healthy eating habits. However, after a year of starting the ketogenic diet and only consuming three of the five food groups recommended by experts,…

Best Meal Replacement: Shakes for Weight Loss If you are a busy person, then the eating hours are going to alter at least once a day. Whether it is your work or diet, eating habits are paramount for your health. Instead of buying junk food, consider shakes and meal-replacements (MRP), which can enrich your body with all the necessary elements at the size of a cup. Know that shakes are lower in sugar than an average protein bar or an MRP. What are the pros of meal-replacement shakes? They can be…

on a diet and only 20% of them are successful. We are constantly consumed by the ideal image and body type that our society enforces upon us. This “ideal image” is shown to us through TV, magazines, and advertisements that cause men and women to diet in order to attain it. This is not practical because the bodies of the people we look up to in these images are their entire work, and it is unrealistic for the average person to assume that they too can achieve this body type through a simple diet.…

Introduction The Atkins diet is a low-carbohydrate and high protein diet that focuses on achieving weight loss in a short amount of time. As their website guarantees that one can “see results quickly [and] after just a few days...” (“The Program: Overview”). Showing that being on the diet consists of minimizing on the carbohydrates and increasing the protein that the body needs, it causes more health benefits. Atkins consists of four different unique phases that allows a person to limit…