How to Choose Types of Diets: The Best Guide on Types of Healthy and Losing Weight Diets

By Thang Nguyen

How to Choose Types of Diets: The Best Guide on Types of Healthy and Losing Weight Diets

With thousands of diet books on the market to choose from, how does any sane person ever know which one is right for them?
 What makes one diet perfect for one person may be a terrible fit for another. Often it is not that you 'failed' yet again on a diet, but the truth is that the menu may have failed you.

Weight loss is a $30 billion a year industry, with everything from fad diets to magic pills to celebrity videos crowding the bookshelves and clogging the airwaves with infomercials. And perhaps the most interesting fact of all– is the observation that the vast majority of that material is saying and advocating the same thing: the fundamental truth about losing weight…

For every single one of these diets, each of these programs can produce measurable results and some impressive before and after photos among its followers. Of course, we never hear about the ones who give up and never see the results.

Take the time to find the right diet for you. Commit to the plan entirely and stop at nothing until you see and feel the successes that you deserve. Be proud of yourself. Use the diet and weight loss to help restore your self-esteem, then go on to affect the lives of others. Pay it forward as you help others become the best they can be. Hopefully, this positive cycle will repeat itself as we help people, one by one, become healthier and lead more prosperous, more fulfilling lives.

Once you get all the weight off you want to lose, change your mindset to focus on long-term health and vitality. Use your diet to start a new way of eating and a new way of living…now and forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thang Nguyen
• Release date: Jul 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386665229

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INTRODUCTION

With thousands of diet books on the market to choose from, how does any sane person ever know which one is right for them?

What makes one diet perfect for one person may be a terrible fit for another. Often it is not that you ‘failed’ yet again on a diet, but the truth is that the menu may have failed you.

Weight loss is a $30 billion a year industry, with everything from fad diets to magic pills to celebrity videos crowding the bookshelves and clogging the airwaves with infomercials. And perhaps the most interesting fact of all– is the observation that the vast majority of that material is saying and advocating the same thing: the fundamental truth about losing weight...

Chapter1: ATKINS DIET

What is the Atkins Diet?

The Atkins Diet is a nutritional plan created by Dr. Robert C. Atkins. His patient work over the years left him questioning why a growing number of people were unfit and unhealthy despite medical advances, wide availability of fresh food, and helpful dietary guidelines that were accessible to all people. He wanted to understand the mistakes people were making while providing a clear-cut way to instruct people on how to nourish themselves while helping them to lose weight and improve their health for the long-term.

The Atkins Diet provides scientifically tested suggestions for what to eat and how to change your metabolic functioning to stay fit. The diet centers around minimal, low-carbohydrates, along with the consumption of healthy fats and protein. This will provide individuals with a full feeling that lasts, leading to permanent physical change and renewed health.

The Atkins Diet focuses on health by sufficiently nourishing the body. Individuals who begin the Atkins Diet will not be hungry. They will feel full and alert, while they gradually lose weight. This diet also leads to a steady, healthy weight for their body, along with eating patterns that can be followed for life.

The Atkins Diet actively discourages the consumption of sugar and useless, refined carbohydrates. This absence of processed carbs (for example, bread or cookies) will eliminate midday crashing and overall fatigue. As a result, the rushed, overeating patterns of consuming most comfortable available food option (usually sleep inducing fast food) will vanish as well. Once the tiredness is gone, energy levels will also rise. Snacking will be minimal if needed at all. Individuals will begin to look for only complete proteins and healthy options. The Atkins Diet will become a way of life.

The Atkins Diet encourages the regular consumption of whole foods while eliminating junk food or fast food entirely. This may seem impossible for you, but eventually, the high salt and sugar found in those foods will become undesirable. Especially, in comparison to the healthy and filling proteins found in lean meats and fish, for example.

The Science behind the Atkins Diet: Why It Works

The Atkins Diet works and has lasted in popular culture’s realm because of the word-of-mouth results and its practical principles. The science behind the Atkins diet focuses on carbohydrates and addictive sugar and flour.

Understanding the dangers of excessive sugar is an essential component for losing weight, keeping it off, and maintaining high levels of above-average health. High blood sugar levels are severely problematic if sustained because the body cannot digest processed foods (like pasta), that are not found in nature. A pasta tree does not exist! And your body is a natural entity.  

Dr. Atkins’ extensive patient work and research through the years led him to examine insulin and its dangerous levels in his patients. Based on this, he proposed that the carbohydrates people were consuming in a standard American diet were (and still are) very harmful. This is because it produces high levels of glucose in people.

The types of carbohydrates consumed will have an effect on blood sugar levels. This can be positive or negative. In a standard Northern American diet, foods filled with flour and processed, refined sugar properties are prevalent. There is high fructose corn syrup in almost everything. From store-bought salad dressings to pre-packaged sandwiches and cookies, refined sugar and flour are everywhere.

Dr. Atkins centered the development of this diet in part on the science and examination of rising blood sugar levels in people. Insulin brings glucose into your blood and moves it until it hits your cells. However, as sugar levels increase, it cannot be converted into energy due to the refined nature of the carbohydrates. So, your body stores that unneeded, excess glucose as fat. This is exemplified physically through noticeable weight gain and physical transformations like beer bellies, love handles, and cellulite pockets on the tummy, hips, buttocks, thighs, and other parts of the leg region.

Excess glucose from refined carbohydrates produces excess fat. And while you may have mistakenly believed that a low-fat diet is needed, you were misguided. The main culprit in preventable diseases like heart disease, stroke, and diabetes is sugar.

High levels of carbohydrate consumption, which is common today and has been for decades, results in high blood sugar levels. When insulin is overproduced, energy is not converted correctly. This leads to shared experiences that you may have felt like midday sleepiness, the inability to focus at school or work, or other ailments that affect your ability to be productive or fully present during the day.

Carbohydrate food staples like mashed potatoes, sugar, cream, or French fries, are familiar in Northern American diets. The serious downside is that they can quickly convert to high levels of glucose. And based on the food pyramid, people are following its guidelines, even though they are harmful to them. Higher consumption levels of vegetables and nutrient-rich proteins are better for blood sugar levels and your overall health.

An overweight or obese person has already experienced harmful changes in their metabolism. Their insulin ability may not be adequate and so their body starts storing excess glucose, which is fat. When insulin becomes excessive, it leads to severe health risks like obesity. This level of insulin can cause a person to have no energy, excessive fat, and physical limitations.

Another result is that you will need more and more refined carbohydrates. Your body will become used to those foods, and it will be what you crave. This is due to metabolic changes, physical routines, and the addictive chemical properties found in refined carbohydrates, processed food and desserts, and nearly all packaged food items that fill the grocery store aisles today.

In his scientific research findings, Dr. Atkins talks about the health issues that result from abnormal insulin levels. According to his book, Dr. Atkins states numerous times that the process of excess blood glucose will lead to an overproduction of what your body needs. In many people, especially those who consume unnaturally, processed carbohydrates, may have a higher chance of developing hyperinsulinism and consequently diabetes. Obesity, breast cancer, and heart disease (which is a leading killer) are entirely preventable through maintaining a healthy weight and limiting refined carbohydrate ridden foods.

The scientific connection between life-threatening illnesses and insulin abnormalities is a trend that Dr. Atkins noticed was rising. Now diabetes and other related diseases are a pervasive part of our societies. This is due to multiple factors like an incorrect food servings suggestion guide as well as the introduction and spread of fast food outlets and chains.

Science data shows that cardiovascular diseases are positively connected to insulin resistance and excessive glucose in the blood and body. Heart disease is the leading cause of death. For most people, this is entirely preventable through lifestyle and dietary changes. These dietary changes need to be lasting, practical, and rational. And the Atkins’ Diet will help you make these vital changes in your life. The best course of action for your mind, body, and overall health can be achieved through the healthy ways of the Atkins Diet.

How the Atkins Diet Works

Doctor Atkins came up with this diet in response to a need to be able to make sure that people are getting as healthy as possible. He saw so many people who were having trouble with their weight and with the fact that their lifestyle was unhealthy. He wanted to show them that the reason that they were having so many problems with their health was not for any purpose other than the vast majority of the food that they ate and the fuel they received came directly from carbohydrates. He designed the diet to be able to make sure that people are never left hungry and that they are not only able to lose weight but also that they can have a healthy body.

The Atkins diet works by making sure that your body is getting the fuel that it was meant to receive. It focuses on what life would be like without sugar. The diet goes back to the roots of eating when people only had the chance to eat meat and other protein sources along with vegetables. People should not be getting their nutrition from the carbs that most of the people in the United States and other developing countries so – they should be getting it from the fat and protein that comes from animals and different types of sources.

When a person consumes a lot of carbohydrates, they are not converted to fuel in the way that protein and fat are. Instead, they are converted to fat and allowed to sit on the body – your body cannot process carbs in the way that it can handle protein and it is not the best source of fuel. While it may last for a short period, you will be hungry again within a few hours of eating since the body pushed it through and had already begun turning it into fat.

Aside from the fact that the body was designed specifically for processing protein and other lean sources of fuel, the proof lies in the millions of people who have seen results from the Atkin’s diet. These are people who have gone from being morbidly obese to people who are now of a healthy weight – it isn’t just about getting skinny but is more about allowing the body to function in the most optimal way – the way that it is meant to function. The diet has been designed to be able to let your body get back to the idea that it is supposed to work and give it the best chance at maintaining