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Vegetarian Atkins diet may be healthier

by angela.booth on June 8, 2009

Here’s a fascinating new study (although small) of the effects of a modified Atkins low-carb diet. Vegetarian Atkins diet lowers heart risks – study | Reuters reports: “After a month, people in both groups lost about four kilograms, or 8.8 pounds. But people on the low-carb, plant protein diet had lower LDL cholesterol and healthier [...]

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High protein breakfast: eat and lose

by angela.booth on May 15, 2009

Do you eat breakfast? I do, and it’s a BIG breakfast on weekends, focusing on protein. On week days, I usually just have a couple of bananas. I started on bananas as part of the miracle banana diet, and I’ve kept up with the bananas because they make me feel good. Here’s something to think [...]

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Low carb diets have been called “ketosis diets”. The theory behind a ketosis diet is that your body will burn fat rather than carbohydrates if you deprive it of almost all carbohydrate sources. This means limiting your carb intake to just 20 grams in some cases. Normally, the carbohydrates in food are converted into glucose. [...]

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Low-carb diets: what you need to know

by angela.booth on April 23, 2009

Carbohydrate is the root cause behind your obesity, or so the supporters of low-carbohydrate diets would have you believe. Low-carb diets have always been more popular than the other dieting methods. After all, who hasn’t heard of the classic ones such as the Atkins Diet and South Beach Diet which continue to be popular even [...]

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Create a Good Diet to Help You to Lose Weight Fast

by angela.booth on April 6, 2009

Are you interested in “Cracking Your Code” to Unlock Your Weight Loss and Fat Burning Potential? Want to lose weight fast? Creating a good diet program which includes proper nutrition can be a real challenge. It’s essential that you eat well while you lose weight, otherwise as soon as you stop dieting you will put [...]

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Low card diets – everything old is new again

by angela.booth on October 9, 2008

Low carb diets seem like a 20th century craze, but actually, they go back even further than that. A man named William Banting may be one of the first people to propose a diet that eschewed bread, beer, sugar, pastries, and all other carbohydrates, and relied heavily on meat. He published a small pamphlet about [...]

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Low carb diets can wreck your health

by angela.booth on October 2, 2008

High protein, low carbohydrate diets all come with exciting promises of quick weight loss and miracle results and pounds melting away. And it is true that when you first start on a high protein diet, you will lose some water weight right away, perhaps as much as a few pounds a week in the first [...]

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Low carb diets – the side effects

by angela.booth on September 23, 2008

New versions of low carb, high protein diets are always appearing on bestseller lists, and every new low carb diet claims to have the perfect combination of low carbohydrate high protein meals that will allow you to shed weight like a duck sheds water. The diets claim that you can lose weight quickly with no [...]

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Looking for a weight loss program? If you’re considering a diet, it might be wise to go low carb for the best chance of success. Low-carb diet proven best for weight control reports: “After two years, dieters on the low-carb diet had the biggest weight loss, closely followed by those on the Mediterranean diet. Those [...]

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Low carb diets and ketosis – is ketosis harmful?

by angela.booth on March 2, 2008

You can certainly lose weight with a low carb diet. However, I’ve always been worried about the issue of ketosis. There are so many conflicting opinions it’s hard to know what to believe. Jimmy Moore’s Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb™ Blog: Is Ketosis Necessary On A Low-Carb Diet? Let’s Ask The Experts! may lay your concerns [...]

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