"Cookie Cutter" Low Carb Diet Plans Explained
"Cookie Cutter" Low Carb Diet Plans
Explained
by Jenny
Mathers
Most diet plans, including low carb diet plans
are best taken with a grain of salt, because although one may
work for your best friend, it may not work for you. For those
with serious weight problems and have co-existing issues such as
hyperglycaemia (high blood sugar levels) or like some of us
hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar levels) etc., the popular diet
plans usually will not be able to cater to individual needs.
We are all individuals and as such we need to feed ourselves as
individuals, having said this some diet plans will be more
beneficial for the general population that others. To assess
which particular diet plan will be beneficial, you can follow
these guidelines. They are very much common sense points, and
provide a good framework which many nutrition professionals
would broadly follow, and within which you can divide the scammy
diet plans from those that can offer you safe and healthy diet
ideas.
- Diet offers sufficient balance and a variety of
carbohydrates, protein and fats.
- Diet does not exclude one
particular food group, and encourage excessive consumption of
another.
- Diet encourages exercise to complement sensible
eating habits.
- Diet encourages awareness of portion sizes.
- Diet does not encourage unrealistic quick weight loss.
- Diet is backed up with medical research data.
In
addition to these points, I've broadly outlined the low carb
diet plans, which seem to be occupying the minds of dieters and
researchers alike, as well as the research for and against
pertinent to the low carb diet plans.
Low Carb Diets
A lot of the diet plans these days center around the low carb
diet plans. These low carb diet plans are considered by some
diet fads, others consider it the new wave in healthy eating.
Diets such as The New Atkins Diet Revolution maintain that obese
people are insulin sensitive and carbohydrates make them gain
weight. Low carb diet plans such as The Zone lay down specific
proportion of carbohydrates, protein and fats that should be
consumed in order to lose weight and while fats are reduced, the
main source of energy comes from the consumption of protein.
Low carb diet plans such as Sugar Busters, believe that sugar is
your body