Prasouda Diet

Prasouda Diet

Prasouda Diet is proven to reduce cancer and heart illness symptoms and is thought to increase life by up to 30 years in some cases. It is a variation of the Mediterranean Diet. Both are diets that promote the benefits of cooking in olive oil and of eating more fruit, vegetables, nuts, pulses and fresh fish than is normally consumed in the Western World. It is loosely based around the naturalness benefits witnessed by US Army nutritionists in the northern Mediterranean countries of Greece, Southern Italy and France in the years after World War II.

It has been shown that following the Prasouda diet and traditional Mediterranean diets both reduce the risk of heart illness in western adults. A recent survey of over 1.5 million healthy adults in the USA and Canada showed that those who follow a similar diet lived longer, had healthier hearts, a reduced incidence of cancer and were less likely to get Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s diseases.

The Protein Power Diet

 The Protein Power Diet

The Protein Power Diet, by Michael and Mary Dan Eades, is similar in many ways to the Atkins diet program. The fundamentals of Protein Power are primarily the same: reduce your carbohydrate intake until your body switches over to using fat for fuel (a process called ketogenisis). Then, slowly reintroduce low glycemic carbs back into the diet, until you’re eating slightly more carbs than you are protein.
The Protein Power diet differs only slightly from the Atkins diet, and is really more like a cross between a ketogenic diet (like the Atkins diet), and Barry Sears Enter The Zone.
The key to this diet is the drastic carbohydrate narrowing required for the initial phases of the diet. Phase 1 is to be implemented by those individuals who are 20% and over their ideal body weight. These folks need to reduce their carbohydrate intake to a maximum of 30 grams per day.
Phase 2 is for those individuals who are less than 20% over their ideal body weight. They need to reduce their carbohydrate intake slightly less drastically – to 55 grams per day!
I like the 2 phase approach. Low carb dieting is difficult to do for extended periods, and many folks don’t need to severely reduce carb intake. A substantial narrowing (like that recommended on Phase 2 of the diet), and a later switch-over to good carbs will be plenty effective.

The One Low-Carb Diet

The One Low-Carb Diet

Salvatore Colasciones online excellent seller, The One Low Carb Diet That Always Works, isn’t really a new diet at all. In fact, this publication might be more accurately entitled A Day in The Life of a Low Carb Dieter.

Salvatores publication doesn’t really shed any new light on low carb dieting (he’s basically following the Atkin’s diet), but instead documents one persons day-to-day experience with a low carb diet, and provides handy tips for living the low carb lifestyle (in this way, Salvatores publication adds a nice dose of practicality missing in typical low carb diet publications).

In fact,The One Low Carb Diet That Always Works, isn’t really the ideal publication for those of you who aren’t yet familiar with the basics of low-carb dieting.

In fact, so little information is provided about the actual mechanics of low-carb dieting, and why it is a viable weight loss strategy that the novice low-carb dieter may have difficulty understanding exactly what it is he/she should or should not do. Of course, you will pick up the basics over the course of the publication, but it would be nice to see the low carb fundamentals outlined concisely in a single chapter early on.

The Grapefruit Diet

The Grapefruit Diet

The traditional Grapefruit Diet gained widespread popularity in the 1980s. The weight loss plan involved a dramatic reduction in calorie intake dieters were encouraged to assimilate no more than 800 calories per day.

The main thrust of the diet involved eating large amounts of fat-burning grapefruit in order to rev up one’s metabolism. Dieters could burn up protein each day mostly boiled eggs an occasional piece of dry toast, and as much black coffee as one’s heart desired.

Some nutrition experts, however, scoffed at the diet, saying that the fat-burning qualities of grapefruit were more myth than reality. They maintained that any weight loss on the Grapefruit Diet was the result of restricted calorie intake, rather than the supposed medicinal qualities of grapefruit.

Makes sense to me. With caloric intake limited to 800 calories, you could lose weight eating Mars bars.

However, a recent study indicates that adding grapefruit and grapefruit juice to your diet can enhance weight loss.

Gycemic Index Diet

Gycemic Index Diet

The G.I. of the G.I. Diet stands for glycemic index, which is a measure of how fast the body breaks down carbohydrates to form glucose, the body’s energy source. The glycemic index was developed by Dr. David Jenkins, a professor of nutrition at the University of Toronto.

So what’s the deal with the glycemic index? Ah, good question

Foods with high GI ratings break even down and get out their stored energy quickly. This causes a surge of insulin (insulin is the hormone in charge of shuttling gluose to the muscle cells). If you’re not involved in a vigorous activity, it’s likely that released energy will be stored as fat (if you’ve lived a lifetime of consuming high glycemic foods, you may be on the cusp of Adult Type II diabetes, and experiencing symptoms like mood swings, intense cravings for sweets, and wildly vacillating energy levels).

In analogy foods with low G.I. scores come off down and release their energy more slowly, leaving you feeling full for a longer period of time. These foods do not result in the dramatic releases of insulin and wildly vacillating energy levels discussed earlier. Low GI foods form the core of the diet.