Weight loss diets, weight loss programs and obesity cures explained

You can find a plethorea of weight loss diets on the market or solicitated from weight loss experts or gurus.  

There are also a lot of more comprehensive health programs to be found that both aims at helping people to loose weight and to produce a good health condition. These programs have both diet components, exercise components and psychlogical components.

 There are also a lot of obesity cures fo be found on the market that do not contain any real dieting or exercise program that claim you can loose weight without considering your eating habits and lifestyle, or by only making some easy adjustments to your lifestyle.

There is also a huge industri out there selling diet programs, consulting services or products with the aim to help people loose weight and having the aim to help them stay on a ideal weight once having accomplished their goal.

These diets, programs or cures can be grouped in four cathegories: Those simply not working, at least not in the long run;  those not working and dangerous to your health; those that are effective but will hurt your health at the same time; those that really cure over-weight in many cases and are good for your health.

All diets that effectively cure over-weight or obesity, and also are good for your health, allow a restricted consume of both carbohydrates and fat, and support the need for proteins, vitamins, minerals, fibres and essential fatty acids. They also prescribe sound food types like whole grain cereals, carbohydrates with low glycemic index and the good fat types.

It is also simply not possible to cure over-weight without first gaining a good controle of your lifestyle habits. Some supplements and tricks can help and may even be neccessary to succeed in the weight lost goal, but you must also consider your lifestyle and chenge it the right way.

Diets that do not contain either fat or carbohydrates are not good for the health. Diet with low proteine content are also bad. The same is true about diets that require consume of great amounts of saturated fat, like the fat in bacon and fat milk products.

Here is a list of many of those diets or other cures for over-weight you can find on the market. Both good and bad diets and obesity cures are listed.  Nearly all of these diets have calory restriction as a key component, but apart from this, the food intake is manipulated in several ways. Some of the diets are nearly the same, but marketed under different names or with different degree of individual support.

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Anne Collins Program - This program emphasizes that a strong motivation is necessary to carry through a completed and successful cure for over-weight.  It has therefore a strong component of individul psychologial support. The diet is a calory restriction diet made of healthy food, and it is combined with exercise. It contains a lot of specific food resceipts usable to achieve the goal.

Atkins Diet - In this diet, one increases the amount of protein consumed, radically decreases the amount of carbohydrates and maintain a fairly high fat consume. Most of the energy intake comes from fat. Meat, pultry, eggs, cream, butter and cheese are important ingredients of the diet. The food reccomended in the diet causes a high intake of saturated fat. The philosophy  behind the cure is that carbohydrates is the cause of aquiring an over-weight, and that one can cure over-weight, by changing carbohydrates for fat.

Beverly Hills Diet - Originally this diet had an initial 19 days period of eating only fruit, and then introducig other kinds of food. Nowadays the diet have a plan with animal proteins allready from the first week. The diet is baced on a guide to be followed day for day. In that guide there are descriptions of meals one can use each day in a 35 days period.

Blood Test Diet - In this diet, the blood is first tested for the content of various substances, like minerals, lipids and cholesterole. Then the diet is constructed to lower the concentration of those substances being too abundant and to heighten the concentration of substances being deficit in the blood. Thus some people will be adviced to have a diet that lowers the cholesterole, and others a diet that increases the cholesterole level. to normalize the blood composition this way is assumed to help weight loss and cure obesity.

Blood Type Diet - A hypothesis behind this obesity cure is that persons can have antigens against certain food types. The next assumption is that the composition of the digestive juices vary much from person to person. These to asumptions do not seem too wrong. The third assumption is that the antigens and digestive juices are determined by the blood type, an asumption that seems doubtful. By eating food fitted for one's own blood type, one then more easily keeps oneself slim and healthy. A further hypotesis behind the diet, is that the several blood types evolved at different times in prehistory and history, and that the right diet is that one consumed by people at the time and locations where a blood type first occured.

Body For Life - This is a 12-week diet and exercise program, and also an annual physique transformation competition. It was created by Bill Phillips, a former competitive bodybuilder. It has been popularised by a bestselling book of the same name. Body for Life makes use of principles that have been widely known in bodybuilding, but composed to suit a general public. The Body for Life nutrition plan consists of six meals a day, consisting of a portion of a lean protein-rich food, and a portion of an unrefined carbohydrate-rich food. Some of the six meals include a vegetable portion as well. The vegetable is included for its dietary fiber and vitamin content, and to help bulk out the meal. A portion should be approximately the same size as the person's hand, either open or clenched into a fist. The meals should be spaced about every three hours. Also supplements of essential fatty acids and other essential nutrients are added to the diet. Bodybuilders have long used these principles for take away body fat before competitions, and the same principles are presumed also to work for an averidge person as a cure for over-weight.

Brenda watsons fiber 35 diet plan - This diet plan is based on consuming food and supplements  that gives 35 grams of fiber each day, much omega-3 type fat, much enzymes and much of compounds called probiotics.  The theory says that the high content of these constituents regulate the digestion, and thereby also  regulates blood sugar values, gives better general health and helps loose weight. There is a set of food and supplemental products people can buy to fulfill the requirements of this diet. Brenda watson also is running a chain of clinics using her philosophy.

Cabbage Soup Diet - This is a 7 days crash cure for obesity where one predominantly consumes cabbage soup in the amount one whishes, but with very restricted allowance for other food types. The diet is a very low calory diet, containing low amounts of major nutrients, like carbohydrates, fat and proteins.

Camebridge Diet ( Camebridge cure ) - This is a meal replacement diet. The basic tool of the diet are powders, called Camebridge meals, that are blended with water to make a shake.   The powder contain proteins, vitamins and minerals, but very little fat and  carbohydrates and therefore contain very little calories. The powders are said to have a complete nutrient content. The cure is composed of 6 faces. In the first face that can last up to one months, all ordinary meals are replaced with these camebridge meals. In addition it is adviced to drink black unsweeted coffee or tea, and a lot water. In the next 5 faces the meal replacement powder is gradually replaced with a balanced diet, in such a way that the daily calory intake in each step are as follows: Step 2 - 790, step 3 - 1000, step4 - 1200, step 5 - 1500 and step 6 - 1500 or more according to individual need. The originators of the cure advice that a doctor is consulted before beginning the cure, and the cure is supported with a certain degree of medical consultance. They also inform that the cure is not suited by certain health problems. For persons having less serious over-weight they recommend a less radical plan where only some meals are replaced with the Cambridge meal powder.

Carb Addicts Diet - This diet consist of a initial two week period where two of the meals are totally free from carbohydrate rich food. They consist of such things as lean meat, fish, poultry and cheese together with vegetables. A third meal can be composed more freely, but with healthy ingredients. After the two weeks, a more flexible plan is followed, but still mainly using food with little carbohydrates. The hypothesis behind the diet is that many obese persons are addicted to charbohydrates and has a generally high insuline level. This insuline level stimulates storing of fat. By restricting the carbohydrate intake drastically, the insuline level drops, and fat is eliminated.

Carb Diets - In this diet the consume of fat is drastically reduced, but not the consume of carbohydrates. However the carbohydrates consumed are natural unrefined carbohydrats from such things as for example whole cereals and fruit. The diet also mostly uses those carbohydrates having a low glycemic index.

Caveman paleolithic - This diet is based on the food that one supposes the human beings in their original natural state were consuming. The diet consists of such things that can be gathered or hunted in the nature with simple means and consumed with just simple preparations. Diery products, legumes and cereals are excluded from the diet, since these food types were not used in the paleolithic period.

Celebrity Diets - This is not any specific diet program. Diets or cures for obesity that celebrities have followed successfully, or claim to have followed successfully, and are marketed for this achievnent are generally called celebrity diets.

Chocolate Diet - This diet is based on generally healthy meals. In addtition one takes a pouder consisting of chocklate and nutrients to be blednded in milk or water and drubk. This powder has the purpose of replaceing all snacks one used to consume, and to furnish the body with substances that promote fat elimination, and are healthy in other ways. Chocklate contains anti-oxydants and therefore helps the health ib various ways. Other nutrients may also be given as capsules.

Cider Vinegar Diet - In this diet, one consumes two - three teaspoons of apple cider vinegar by each meal. In addition one shall eat generally healthy food, moderate the amount of food and exercise.

Dash Diet - This is a low fat, but carbohydrate rich diet. It consists of much whole corn cereals, musch fruit, much vegatables, somewhat less amount of lean meat, fish an poultry and even smaller amounts of seeds and nuts. The diet has not only the aim of loosing weight, but also of lowering blood pressure.

Detox Diet - The theory of these diets is that people are continually subjected to toxins such as pesticides, food additives, high fat foods and alcohol, and that these substances make the body unable to handle fat and carbohydrates properly, so that fat accumulates in the body.  Detoxification by means of a strictly vegetable diet is supposed to take these toxins out of the body. Main food included are organic fruit, vegetables, juices, herbal teas, rice and drinking much water. Some of these diets are also initated by some days of fasting. These diets tend to be low in protein and low in fat and have a very restricted calory intake.

Diabetic Diet - This is the diet recommanded for diabetics, but it can also be used by other persons to help loose weight. The diet recommended for people who suffer from diabetes mellitus is one that is high in dietary fibre, especially soluble fibre, but low in fat (especially saturated fat). One also reduces the intake of carbohydrates that have a high glycemic index. Furthermore the diet is based on a strict controle of the carbohydrate portions consumed during the day, not too much and not too little.

Diet Cycling - This is not any specific diet, but a habitual way of repeated dieting that results in a weight gain in the long run. A person start to diet with an approach with the aim of loosing a lot of fat in a short time. Weight is lost, but the loss is as much muscle mass as fat. During the process the body also benin to economize with the energy resources and burn less fat than before. Then the person gets tired of dieting and goes back to their original eating habits. Because the body by now has been accustomed to using less energy, the person rapidly gain back the original weight and somewhat more. Then he once again start dieting, loosing some weight and some muscle mass and stop the diet once again. By repeating this cycle many times over some time, the person gets steadily more over-weight and looses stedily more muscle mass.

Diet Divas Diet - This diet has a high protein cntent and a low carbohydrate content. It starts with a jump plan of 3 - 7 days where one eats protein rich food, but no food with carbohydrtes, except for some fruit. in this way the body goes into a ketosis state that start a fast fat burning activity. The proponents of the diet sell protein pouder to be mixed with water and drunk, and they also sell vitamins, salads, dressings, galtin, soups, cold drinks and herbs they recommend. They also recommend using diuretics.

Diet Workshop - This is a diet program with a balanced composition of all nutrients with the food pyramid as the theoretical base. It is also possible to buy ready meals based on these principles.

Dr. Phil's Diet - The diet is based on low fat and low sugar content. The food shall also be fibre rich and of a kind that it takes time to digest. Furthermore the food shall contain enough of all needed nutrients, like proteins, vitamins and minerals. Cognitive councelling and motivation is an integral part of the program. People with pear shaped or apple shaped body types are said to need special nutrients that also are sold by the program.

eDiets Weight Loss Plan - This is individually guided diet plans. The individual diets are composed according to healthy principles, and have the aim of reducing calory intake, but are also composed according to the individuals specific needs and preferances. Therefore two individual diets can be very different.

Fad Diets - Diets that are promising easy and speedy weight loss without being effective in the long run are called fad diets.

Fat flush diet - This diet both has the aim of detoxifying the body and weight loss. It is a low carbohydrate diet running over three faces with very restricted rules for what to eat and wht not to eat, and for calory consume. In face one of 1-2 weeks the calory intake shall not go over 1200 per day.  The aim of this face is to detoxyfy, loose excessive water from the body and loose some fat. In this phase one is not allowed to consume margarine, alcohol, sugar, oils or fats (except flaxseed oil), grains, bread, cereal, starchy vegetables, dairy products.

In face 2, the calory shall not exceed 1500 a day. face 2 continues until the goal for weight loss is achieved. In face 3 some gluten free cereals and other carbohydate rich food is reintroduced. This is a maintainance face whith the aim of preserving the results achieved. The program also contain a dayly exercise program.

Fibre Rich Diet Plan or High fibre diets  - This diet contains a lot of fibre rich food like whole corn cereals, and little fat. It is further baced on restricting the calory content of the food and on eating healthy types of food. The fibre will swell in the stomach and hinder too much consume of high calory nutrients. The fibres also help for the digestion.

Food Combining Herbal Life - This diet is based on a set of strict rules for how to combine nutrients in one and the same meal. In each meal one has to choose one of the allowed combination. If the meals are not combined according to the rools, the food will not be digested properly and fat fill deposit in the body. For example is it not allowed to combine proteins and carbohydrates in the sam meal. Antother rule is that fruit should only be consumed during the first part of the day.

GI Diet - Glycemic index is a measure of how fast energy is taken up into the blood stream and converted to a usable form, which is glucose. The theory of this diet is that food whose energy is taken up slowly and thus give a stable blood sugar eases weight loss, besides from preventeng and helping for diabetes. Each food type is given a GI index figure, and the aim is to hold the GI index of the dayly food intake as low as possible.

Grape fruit Diet- In this diet grape fruit and coffeine are used as stimulants to enhnce fat burning. The diet also has a very low calory intake. The diet is to be held in only 12 days, but may be repeated after a break, according to the proponents. Except from the carbohydrates from the grapefruit, nearly no other carbohydrates are allowed. All meals contain grapefruit and some source of proteine and fat lik bacon, meat, fish or eggs, and one drinks coffee or tea to the meals.  Vegetables are allowed in any amount.

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