P.O.R.N. Diets

I am coining this term as I feel some of the diets out there are so radical they need to be discussed in one place.

We here from our favorite celebrities daily and some of us live for this. We follow them on Twitter, talk about them on Bebo and MySpace or e mail each other about them especially when a new diet is talked about.

There have been some over the top radical diets in the past like the 'Air diet', not a very popular one for obvious reasons unlike the 'Chocolate' diet. Then there is the more main stream 'Atkins' diet or 'The Dash Diet' or even 'The South Beach Diet'. All have there plus and minus points and their advocates and nay sayers as well.

The trick when it comes to diets if there is a trick in selecting one would be to thoroughly research the topic. The mere fact that there literally are thousands of diets commercially available shown on television, billboards or even your local Chemist shop.

Here will be many, many articles pertaining to the topic of P.O.R.N. Diets circulating our media and your opinion on them is most welcome. Maybe you have been on one and would like to praise it or maybe warn others away from it. Whatever you may like to share, diet related, please do.

Monday, June 15, 2009

The Truth About Fast Weight Loss And Atkins Diet

By Christine G. Shannon

When you begin to wonder about the Atkins diet, you wonder who Atkins was. Atkins is actually doctor Robert Atkins. He was an overweight physician who read a diet in the Journal of the American Medical Association and revised it to suit his needs. He wrote a series of diet books about his success back in the 1970's.

The Atkins diet is high in protein and low in carbohydrates. The permitted foods on the Atkins diet include poultry such as duck, goose, chicken and quail, unprocessed meats including lamb, beef, pork, mutton, veal, venison and ham and unprocessed fish such as trout, catfish and tuna. You are also allowed to eat unprocessed shellfish like shrimp, clams and oysters.

Eggs are also allowed on the food list as well as salad vegetables, most fats and some dairy products. Sugar free salad dressing is allowed as well as some other types of condiments. However, you must be careful about the beverages and sweeteners you may use while on this diet. Keep in mind while on the Atkins diet that the majority of fruits are restricted for consumption, with the exception of unsweetened strawberries, cherries, grapefruit, raspberries and cranberries.

Atkins has come out with prepackaged food, shakes and other items to go with this diet, if you can afford it. The 14-day starter kit is to help learn what is allowed on the Atkins diet. The main problem with this diet is, to be successful, it involves a lot of research, reading books and labels of carbohydrate gram counts, and can take a while to figure out what is low carb and what isn't.

With the Adkins diet you do not count calories rather you count carbohydrates. The diet involves various stages or phases. The first is the induction phase. In this phase you severely restrict your consumption of many foods. After passing into the next phase you can slowly but surely begin to add more carbohydrates back into your diet plan.

There are online support, chat groups, recipes, menus and frequently asked questions from the Atkins diet support team. Of course, it also involves gaining the support of those around you, as well.

The Adkins diet does work well for many individuals who seek to lose their extra weight. However, like so many other things in life, the Adkins diet does not work for every single person. If you have tried and failed while using this diet program or any other diet program, then you need to find another diet that will work for you.

No matter which diet you may chose to use the hardest aspect is maintaining a healthy weight. That means keeping it off. This is especially true when you already have a predisposition to be overweight. The only means to success when it comes to maintaining your weight loss is by simply committing yourself to actively changing your habits of eating and your lifestyle. Fat Loss 4 Idiots at the link below may be just what you are searching for.

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