No thanks, I’m on a diet!

How many times have you heard that phrase many times and has spoken? How many times have you started a diet that has never finished?. That phrase is one of the most heard in the United States and still continues to obesity figures reaching dangerous, why will it be?

According to the Dietetic Association of American nearly 40 million people who currently follow a diet, only five million achieved its goal. The rest, if you’ve lost a kilo, recovered or worse weight gain.

The reason lies in the schemes and evil brought primarily on the lack of supervision by a professional.

In general, persons wishing to lose weight fast and comfortable pursuing solutions, and expect to obtain effective results without effort, which is completely illogical.

If there is something in which they agree all specialists in nutrition is that, in order to lose weight, there is only one formula: eat less and exercise more practice.

Then diets may hear more famous around the world, are encouraged to continue if we suggest that any consult with a nutritionist and / or dietary so that the results are favorable.

1. The Diet dissociation

It basa in combination or separation of food in one meal, ie separate intake of carbohydrates, fats and proteins.

Affirms that should not be mixed, for example, fat with protein, carbohydrates with proteins or starches and acids.

Another diet coupled called Antoine, is nurtured daily food of a single category: or dairy products or vegetables or meat or fruit.

It promises: To achieve the ideal weight by manipulating the metabolic process.

To whom should: Those who want to eat almost every type of food but are willing to change his eating habits on what at each meal.

Actual and contraindications: It is a diet that tends to be unbalanced, especially if it is known that in practice, his followers chose to cling to certain foods and as a result there are serious nutritional deficiencies also affect metabolic processes.

On the other hand, is a diet that can become boring because of the monotony in food intake.

2. Macrobiotic Diet

Michio Kuchi, a follower of Oshawa (creator of the macrobiotic) devised a menu less restrictive. The principle of this diet is that food biologically closer to us are those that we agree more.

Thus, those whole grains that have the ability to digest very slowly (slow absorption of food) are the basis of the diet.

While this proposal does not prohibit carbohydrates, but did have marginalized those who have undergone a process of refining.

It promises: Balancing energy points in the body, achieving greater harmony between the levels psychological, physical and spiritual.

Actual and contraindications: In general, the macrobiotic diet is a healthy way of feeding, besides allowing a real food on learning how to balance the two forces (Yin and Yang). However, its drawbacks are a small protein content and vitamin C.

3. The Diet Dr. Atkins

Calling his time in the “diet revolution”, is a proposal that allows freely eat foods rich in fats and proteins, but in return restricts the maximum carbohydrates: bread, biscuits, cereals, menestras, potatoes, fruit, soft drinks and beverages alcoholic.

It promises: Lose weight quickly, finishing with fatigue, depression and stress.

Actual and contraindications: In the eyes of large dining rooms, one of the diets seem easier to follow because it does not impose severe limitations, however, since a diet rich in fats (above 75%) favors an increase in cholesterol and a high concentration of uric acid in excess proteins.

Also, the restriction of cereals, vegetables and fruit makes it a poor diet of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, so it ends up being weak and unbalanced.

If this is done for a long time and without medical supervision can cause serious illness.

4. The Cron diet

This type of diet allows for eating everything but following a schedule, since it basa on the principle that certain foods may weight gain depending on the time of day they are ingesting.

Thus, some vegetables can be eaten at any time; carbohydrates (cereals, potatoes and menestras) should be eaten in the first part of the day to give energy that the body needs; proteins, in the evening to promote the degradation fats, and from five p.m. prohibiting fruit and carbohydrates.

Hours food

• Cereals and derivatives: Before 3 pm. • Menestras: From noon to 3 pm. • Fruit: Prior to 5 pm. • Meat, fish, eggs and dairy: From 8 pm. until 10:30 pm.

It promises: a slimming cure in the short term as well as educate the body to accept a new form of food.

Actual and contraindications: This diet has some scientific basis but is novel and is still under experimentation. However, it achieves a certain general welfare as they lose weight.

5. Medical Diet Scardale

Proposal created by American cardiologist Dr. Herman Tarnow which caused a stir in the United States. This is a diet of “shock” that can be done only for 14 days at a time.

It is also low in carbohydrates and requires compete on a daily basis with the balance.

It promises: To achieve the ideal weight according to standard tables that relate weight, gender and height. In addition, healthy people ensures the loss of six to seven kilos in fifteen days, or approximately 500 grams. per day.

Actual and contraindications: It is a poor diet, unbalanced and totally inadequate because it alters the structure of normal intakes of food.

It is forbidden to patients in general, particularly diabetics and pregnant women.

One of his worst mistakes is to remove the pasta, potatoes and menestras. Moreover, their results are short term.

6. The Weight Watchers program

Born in the United States invaded too soon and the whole world has become very famous. It not only eat less but also sufficient quantities of the right foods.

Its originality lies in the particular partnership scheme with psychological help through group meetings.

The program taught learning what the Weight Watchers (weight watchers), a self-help group that has been formed in almost all major cities.

Members meet regularly to exchange experiences, seek advice and weighed staff.

The program Weight Watchers se basa in a kind of mixed feeding with few calories. It covers all the needs and is easy to integrate into everyday life.

Basically the program is developed in three phases:

1. A basic programme, during which should lose most of the weight. 2. A transition plan, which allows overcoming the mark of the last 5 pounds. 3. A maintenance program to preserve the ideal weight has been achieved.

It promises: To achieve the ideal weight with a real psychological motivation.

Actual and contraindications: This is a good hypocaloric regime, the only drawback is that they can only join the association people who weigh at least five kilos more than their normal weight. Have a good impact on dietary habits and is not required to lose more than one kilo per week.

On the other hand, if we want to belong to the association must pay a registration and a monthly fee.

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