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The Facts on Five Major Diet Plans
The Atkins Diet
Works on the assumption that high carbohydrate consumption is the major cause of being overweight. The intake of carbs is greatly reduced to allow the body to gradually burn its large stores of fat. Very few restrictions (or none at all) are placed on the amount of food that you eat. You just can’t have very many carbohydrates. In theory, this should make you less hungry and allow you to eat less, slowly adding small amounts of carbohydrates to your diet over time.
The Xenical Diet
This is a low calorie, high exercise diet that is complemented by the use of the weight loss drug Xenical. The drug works by preventing the body from absorbing certain types of fat as they pass through the digestive track. This keeps the body from gaining excess weight from the consumption of fats. However, there are some side effects associated with this medication, so it is only available as a prescription. If you are interested in using Xenical to complement your diet, talk to your doctor.
The Baby Food Diet
This one is said to be popular in Hollywood. Essentially, you limit yourself to eating fourteen jars of baby food per day. In some cases, you can substitute a number of these jars for one healthy and low calorie adult meal. While this diet obviously has a high gimmick factor, it can achieve limited success if you follow the rules rigorously.
The South Beach Diet
A variation on the Atkins diet that is considered by some to be a bit more heart healthy. It is still low on certain types of carbohydrates, but also places limits on some types of fats as well. It is often viewed as a slightly less extreme version of the Atkins diet, although its effects are roughly the same. It intends to reduce the total intake of carbs so that the body can begin to burn its stores of fat instead.
The Flexitarian Diet
This diet operates on the assumption that a diet high in meat content is bad for your overall health. Hence it mandates that you reduce the amount of meat that you eat to approximate a more vegetarian-like lifestyle. Hence the name: a portmanteau of flexible and vegetarian. People on this diet eat two thirds or more of their meals using vegetarian ingredients or eat only small amounts of meat with meals, shifting to plant based meals as often as possible.
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