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The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life
by Arthur Agatston, Joseph Signorile
by Arthur Agatston, Joseph Signorile
Joanna's review
Jul 28, 10
Recommended for:
anyone who wants to lower cholesterol, triglycerides, or loose weight
Read from July 06 to 16, 2010 — I own a copy
UPDATE to my review:
My cholesterol is down 40 points, my tryglycerides are down 75 points. All that after just few weeks of following Dr. Agatston recommendation. And I have cheated more than once!! Now have to keep it up. Phase 3 for life...
If you need to lower your cholesterol, triglycerides, etc, or just to loose weight this is a very smart book. Dr. Arthur Agatson, cardiologist, has developed this diet to help his patients strugling with these all these issues. He explains in details how certain foods affect our heart, what's good, what's not. I am very rational person, so this kind of talk gets too my imagination. And this edidtion _Supercharged" has more information than the original book, as the latest years brought us a lot of new research and information about our dietery needs.
Basic concepts:
- bad carbs, vs. good carbs. Replace refined grains with whole grain version (bread, pasta, rice, etc). For our organism converts these complex carbohydrates into simple sugars quickly, it is almost like eating candies.Whole grains have nutritients and slow the digetsion process (which is important)
- limit amount of carbohydrated in your diet
- introduction of glycemic index (how much your blood sugar rises after eating certain food), try to choose the food with low glycemic values (vegies the best)
- fish and seafod - for its Omega 3
- good fats vs. bad fats.- Use olive oil, avoid trans fat, etc.
There are 3 phases in The South Beach Diet, with the first one lasting only 2 weeks, and not being neccessary for everybody. This is the hardest part, I call it "carb rehab" - no carbs: bread, pasta, rice, cereal, fruit. The purpose is to stabilize the blood sugar level which should help with the cravings. I am trying this now, not easy, although the worst part is not eating fruit, and I was worried about the bread:):)
Second phase: adding back these good carbs. It lasts until the desired weight has been reached.
Third phase - keeping this weight. Should last for life............
Add importance of interval excercise and you are young, slim, healthy and happy again.......... Just dreaming, I wish it was so easy.
Even If I don't stay on this religiolously, it did teach me a lot about how we should eat, what's important, what shoud be avoided. Next blood test in two weeks, we'll see...
My cholesterol is down 40 points, my tryglycerides are down 75 points. All that after just few weeks of following Dr. Agatston recommendation. And I have cheated more than once!! Now have to keep it up. Phase 3 for life...
If you need to lower your cholesterol, triglycerides, etc, or just to loose weight this is a very smart book. Dr. Arthur Agatson, cardiologist, has developed this diet to help his patients strugling with these all these issues. He explains in details how certain foods affect our heart, what's good, what's not. I am very rational person, so this kind of talk gets too my imagination. And this edidtion _Supercharged" has more information than the original book, as the latest years brought us a lot of new research and information about our dietery needs.
Basic concepts:
- bad carbs, vs. good carbs. Replace refined grains with whole grain version (bread, pasta, rice, etc). For our organism converts these complex carbohydrates into simple sugars quickly, it is almost like eating candies.Whole grains have nutritients and slow the digetsion process (which is important)
- limit amount of carbohydrated in your diet
- introduction of glycemic index (how much your blood sugar rises after eating certain food), try to choose the food with low glycemic values (vegies the best)
- fish and seafod - for its Omega 3
- good fats vs. bad fats.- Use olive oil, avoid trans fat, etc.
There are 3 phases in The South Beach Diet, with the first one lasting only 2 weeks, and not being neccessary for everybody. This is the hardest part, I call it "carb rehab" - no carbs: bread, pasta, rice, cereal, fruit. The purpose is to stabilize the blood sugar level which should help with the cravings. I am trying this now, not easy, although the worst part is not eating fruit, and I was worried about the bread:):)
Second phase: adding back these good carbs. It lasts until the desired weight has been reached.
Third phase - keeping this weight. Should last for life............
Add importance of interval excercise and you are young, slim, healthy and happy again.......... Just dreaming, I wish it was so easy.
Even If I don't stay on this religiolously, it did teach me a lot about how we should eat, what's important, what shoud be avoided. Next blood test in two weeks, we'll see...
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I agree. this thing is banned everywhere else but here - corn farmers lobby working on this hard. I am starting to think this carb cravings are like with an alcohol - if you were an addict, you cannot have any, or you go down again. It is hard to stop after few bites, seems like the whole day becomes "give me more of that poison!".....:))
Life is not fair, that's for sure!............;):)
Oh you are so right on and all of us overweight people cannot be from just "weak will". We have to rise up against these additives of addictive substances. If you can, see themovie, Food Inc. Michael Pollan's books also deal with this lobbying. A few companies are controlling everything. We are trying to "buy fresh, buy local" here where we live at only
2 orchards, farms. We attach food with love and it's again another very multi-layered issue. I'm happy Jamie Oliver, Mrs. Obama and others are pushing for schools to get veggies and fruit into kids and stop the constant pushing of pizza, hot dogs, sugar drinks in schools.
I saw Food, Inc., it was eye-opening, as well as the "Fast Food Nation". i was terrified when during kindergarten round up few month ago the school's cafeteria was showing off with fried, synthetic food from microwafe and cookies. No comparison with what I was getting in my school ages ago. Or the kids choices on the kids menus in restaurants.Today I was very proud of my girls - on the playdate at the friend's house they choose fruit salad over piece of cake. Why can't I do it????:)
processed foods is what is responsible for the epidemic of obesity we have now. Dinner was salmon, sweet potato, avocado salad. But lunch was an iced coffee w.chocolate and a bite of a bagel-and yes, I think about food and say, oh you can have a little goody and
I cannot. My Dad and I used to churn delicious full cream ice cream and we never, never used Karo (corn syrup) as an ingredient. The fact that I cannot buy ice cream without it now is a crime.