Benefit from the Best Diets of America!
Only think about that – there are about 80 million Americans whose ever life target is to lose weight, $30 billion are spent on various programs and diets annually. If you are one of those 80 million, then this article is for you.
It’s not only about the money, though the amount is great, but it’s also about the number of approaches and methods used, the physical and emotional efforts spent, or in some case wasted. In the range of all existing approaches it’s pretty simple to get lost and at the same time not that easy to realize which one really works and which of them works without any harm to your health. Health made a resolution to find a golden mean, i.e. to choose programs which are a balanced combination of widely known weight loss factors, such as increased physical activity, consumption of less calorie food, reasons and a controlled nutrition.
For that purpose there was created a panel of experts, who were to pick out 60-70 most known diets and then cut the list down the best 7. So, please enjoy this list:
1.The Weight Loss Plan of the Structure House
It was created by Gerard J.Musante, PhD, who is the head of the Structure House, a medical center for obese people, located in North Carolina. You’ve probably never heard about this plan, as its maker has never advertised it before, though his brainchild proved to be successful. The main idea is to understand what makes people lose weight, and going into detail, the way people and food affect each other.
You may ask if the methods of the Structure House center are applicable at home. Our experts say ‘yes’. Moreover, some of our panelists got really fascinated by the approach itself as it strives to explain the reasons of overeating, and help obese people to control their lives.
2.The Walking Method
It’s a well-known fact that walking 10000 per day does bring benefit to your health. You are a real winner in a weight loss fight if your diet is based on this sound method. If you need more motivation, purchase a pedometer; the mechanism which proved to be a great stimulus for losing weight.
Our panelists confirm that the approach does have a significant effect, especially if you make it also your life style, which is if you accept to make yourself move more not only in the gym, but also in your everyday life (for example, do not use an elevator, or park your car far from your office). The logic is pretty simple, burning more calories will benefit much greater than simple eating less calories.
At the same time it was noticed that the combination of both methods (burning and cutting calories) will contribute to a harmless constant loss weight and a healthy life style.
3.The Weight Watcher Program
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No doubts, this program really works. A group encouragement along with a changing life style gives outstanding results. In this respect Weight Watch program gained the highest marks, as being one of the most motivational. Our experts have also noted a general wholesome tempo of this method as well as the physical activity element included.
Moreover, the Weight Watcher offers two basic approaches, namely Flex Plan based on teaching dieters to make sage and well decisions on what to eat and consume; and the Core Plan which is concentrated on eating nutritious products rather than on counting calories.
The Weight Watcher has already helped many dieters and will definitely help more ones, as it gives methods which everyone is able to apply.
4.A Special Diet of EatingWell
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This special approach is based on the research of Jean Harvey-Berino, PhD, RD. She is actually a founder of EatingWell Diet. Being the head of the department of nutrition and food science, she has elaborated the program which is focused on behavioral treatment, i.e. on the process of finding and analyzing the reasons of craving for food, on the process of conscious food shopping, and on the process of making physical activity your life style, along with the special 28-day menus. Our panelists compared the rates of calories consumed and weight loss, and gave the highest scores to this approach.
5.The Eating Plan based on Volumetric Approach
The approach is founded by Barbara Rolls, PhD, director of the Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior at Pennsylvania State University. The main idea of this approach is based on people’s natural desire to feel full. She calls people upon to concentrate on the energy content of products. She is ready to share her plan which will give you a pretty picture of how you can feel full having consumed low-content foods, such as soups, fruit and vegetables, which will not provide you with calories.
This approached is highly scored as it offers a safe weight loss and healthy components.
6.The Diet of thebestlife.com
The approach which allowed this program to get high scores is based on realistic targets and balanced menus and recipes published on the site.
Best Life is divided into three basic stages; each dieter has a chance to follow any stage at any convenient speed. The stages are: slimming, healthy and nourishing eating, increasing of everyday physical activity.
That’s a great approach for those who prefer to get into a new life style little by little.
And although most dieters will find this method less effective since it doesn’t promise quick effect, this quality might describe it as one of the most reliable and safe diets.
7. Find a Solution Plan
The main aim of this method is to explain people why they overweight. This program was created by dietitian Laurel Mellin and it’s actually based on the Shapedown program which she composed for overweight children and young adults. Mellin decided to have a new look at obesity, thus she explains it as a combination of a life style a person leads, his body and mind. Based on her research she marked out five major reasons for overweight and obesity: eating out of a balanced manner, low energy, the feeling of shame for the own body, setting insufficient limits, and weak self-nurturing skills.
Laurel Mellin recommends building up your health with the help of four light components, namely fruit and vegetables, dairy produce, proteins and grains.
You are welcome to stick to any of above approaches. However, no matter which one you will prefer, stay positive and follow your plan!
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By Lisa, March 28, 2009 @ 6:04 am
Thank you for an interesting post. I’ve already heard about a couple of methods from the above list, like Weight Watcher, for example. Indeed, it helped me not to give up. It’s very essential to have a group of encouragement, so that you don’t feel lonely in your everyday fat combat.
I feel like trying another approach, guess it will be the diets of The Best Life, I like the idea, as I’m pretty sure that such a serious process as losing weight just can not be quick without any harm to your health.
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By Cristina, March 28, 2009 @ 6:03 am
The post is interesting indeed, but what more interesting is why not a single plan includes weight loss pills. Many people will have no result only ‘by staying positive and following diet plan”, as they do need to take drugs. Not as a substitution of a diet, but as a weight loss supplement. It’s pretty vital for them. It’s obvious when we are in despair, to believe we can drop some pounds and fat stored in our body, we need to see that something really works. Thus, pills might be a starting point for most dieters.
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