I don't know if anyone else laughs at diet programs like i do, but man have i seen some weird ones. Only eat meat! Don't eat any meat! Don't eat any fats! Don't eat any sugar! Just don't eat at all! And then there is the great food pyramid, which before its revision was even more difficult to functionally use. and what about the Super size me program where they 'proved' that by eating any thing and everything from a fast food restaurant they could kill themselves. Or the rebuttal program where another person ate selectively and moderately at a fast food restaurant for every meal and became more healthy!
All I'm saying is there are a lot of choices out there, and most of them will not help you permanently lose weight, mainly because there is no permanent loss of weight unless you always take steps to keep it off. The only real secret to weight loss is to burn more calories than you consume. Period. While this may seem simple, doing this one thing will result in the stated goal. Of course the hard part is eating less than you burn off, as just about every thing we can buy helps us go over.
Sugar, fats, dressings, greases: They are all tasty, and everything that is tasty has one or more of them, and usually a lot of calories too (OK maybe not EVERYTHING, but most things). So whats a person to do? Well obviously you can go ahead and eat whatever you want, as long as you still burn more calories right? The only problem is not everyone has the time to work out 5 hours a day, nor do we all have the ability to work out that long.
Well assuming we are consuming a reasonable amount of calories (2k-3k) and working out occasionally, theres those other things about health to think about. Vitamins, cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar and countless other factors that indicate a healthy human. Which i guess is where all of these unique diet plans sprang up. Someone must have been following one plan and discovered that they were not reaching the goals they wanted. Thus they experimented to find out what worked for them, and proclaimed to the world that they had the secret to dieting right!
But sure enough another person tried their plan, failed, and came up with their own that worked for them, and then proclaimed to the world that the others were wrong and they had the right diet plan! If we rinse and repeat this process for 50 years, well its easy to see how have so many diet plan choices today. What i find odd about all of these diets is that very few people have reasoned that perhaps something more is at work here, such as how individuals process foods differently, how genetic differences give some individuals the ability to eat some foods and not others.
I recently came across the first diet plan that actually makes sense in light of the past 50 years of scientific research called the Blood Type Diet (http://www.dadamo.com/). Essentially, it is wisely suggested that once your body breaks down foods into proteins, those protein interact with the proteins created by your body and are either allowed to enter into the blood stream or are rejected. Seems reasonable right?
Well everyone has a slightly different make up genetically, and each person therefore has a slightly different protein set in their blood. This means potentially there will be some proteins from food that we will be unable to process, some that we are able to process, some that react very poorly with our system, and some that seem to aid our body in its functioning. You can read the exact reasoning or watch the embedded videos for a more detailed explanation, but that's the general idea.
Really what I'm getting at is this is one of the first examples of and individual truly designing a diet plan, testing it in the field, analyzing the results, refining their plan, testing it, analyzing results, refining, testing, analyzing, repeat repeat repeat. This is exactly what we are supposed to be doing for our applications, and here someone is doing it for food! Personally i believe what Dadamo is suggesting about the connection between blood type, food, allergies and the like. But i more respect the process to which he has reached these conclusions, and the updating and on going testing of his theories.
Check it out, you may find your new favorite diet!
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http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=obertancat
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I'm always really interested in diets, not because of how much weight I'm trying to lose but for the type of food that I intake. I feel it's healthier to go on diets based on the types of food you eat compared to the portion of the serving.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you about diets, I think they're all crap. At least if you try to apply them as a universal law for a lot of people. Everyone's bodies are different, process food differently, have different metabolisms, etc. While the metabolic process underlying how our body functions is basically the same, minor genetic tweaks and ind. differences can really matter when choosing a diet. Also diets seem somewhat artificial because our bodies need a lot of different things (including sugar fat and carbs) and choosing the good ones to ingest for your body cannot come in a non-personalized and/or uncostumized diet. I don't exercise but I don't think I'm unhealthy; I just keep active and eat less than what I consume. Personally I think its a matter of laziness, people know what is good for their bodies, what is bad in excess (alcohol, mcdonalds, too much greasy food, etc). Its common sense. You eat when you're hungry, stop when you're FULL. That's what a lot of people have problems with, and thats, mainly, is why they get FAT. In which case, sorry, they have to eat less so their body eats itself for a little bit. Its difficult, but it won't hurt that much. People have been surviving off a lot less food than we eat for many years. Come on.
ReplyDeleteI like to think you can eat anything you want, but if you want to stay healthy then you have to respond accordingly. Eat healthy and little, don't have to work out. Eat terrible and lots, have fun on the treadmill. One way or another, it all boils down to personal responsibility, something severely lacking in our society.
ReplyDeleteDiet commercials and radio ads are hilarious! The funny thing is, diets just don't work. You have to learn to eat the right foods-healthy foods. And moderation is key. Walking is a must. Even if you do not like excercising, you won't get anywhere in life if you don't start walking.
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