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The "Flat Belly" Diet
Hope this finds everyone well! I noticed this week that there is a link from my Google homepage to this "flat belly diet." Funny, Web MD just happens to have an article about it too. I generally have a lot of faith in Prevention Magazine and I think that a lot of information contained in it is well researched and worth while, but sometimes I think they get swept up in the nonsense too.
This "diet" is one such example and I think that WebMD's registered dietitian (RD) does a great job of supporting what is right about this eating plan, as well as dispelling the myths about it. This plan is a healthy, Mediterranean-diet based plan, and you will certainly lose weight on on it, as well as probably lower your cholesterol and improve your blood pressure, but it won't melt away fat from any particular body location.
It is important to realize that any diet that seems to have a "magic" ingredient to melt away fat/pounds, no matter what the source of the information, is full of horse feathers! Please look to a trusted, well-researched source for your dietary information, such as your own RD, or a site such as WebMD or a university-based health site. The critical thing to ask yourself is, "does the writer of this diet article have something to sell, such as food items, food supplements, or a book?" If they don't, then you'll be more likely to get unbiased information.
On another note I have been away in Washington, DC this past week at the American Association of Diabetes Educators meeting. This was a mixed business and site-seeing vacation trip, and my traveling companion and I had a wonderful time. If anyone is going to DC and wants a recommendation for a place to stay, please check out the B&B called the Aaron Shipman House; you will not be disappointed!
Lovely hosts, fabulous food at breakfast, and a great neighborhood location (less than 15 min walk to the convention center at a moderate pace). While there I began reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. If you are at all interested in the topics of eating locally (aka "relocalizing" food or being a locovore), and the environmental impact of our food choices, you'll want to read this book. Here is a factoid taken from her pages that amazes me: "If every US citizen at just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally grown and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week." That's not gallons - it's barrels! Think about how fast this would decrease our dependence of oil.
Eating well for our improved health and the environment are important. Be certain that the recommendations that you follow are from an informed, unbiased source.
Take care.
~Laurie
Related Topics: Technorati Tags: healthy diet, belly fat
This "diet" is one such example and I think that WebMD's registered dietitian (RD) does a great job of supporting what is right about this eating plan, as well as dispelling the myths about it. This plan is a healthy, Mediterranean-diet based plan, and you will certainly lose weight on on it, as well as probably lower your cholesterol and improve your blood pressure, but it won't melt away fat from any particular body location.
It is important to realize that any diet that seems to have a "magic" ingredient to melt away fat/pounds, no matter what the source of the information, is full of horse feathers! Please look to a trusted, well-researched source for your dietary information, such as your own RD, or a site such as WebMD or a university-based health site. The critical thing to ask yourself is, "does the writer of this diet article have something to sell, such as food items, food supplements, or a book?" If they don't, then you'll be more likely to get unbiased information.
On another note I have been away in Washington, DC this past week at the American Association of Diabetes Educators meeting. This was a mixed business and site-seeing vacation trip, and my traveling companion and I had a wonderful time. If anyone is going to DC and wants a recommendation for a place to stay, please check out the B&B called the Aaron Shipman House; you will not be disappointed!
Lovely hosts, fabulous food at breakfast, and a great neighborhood location (less than 15 min walk to the convention center at a moderate pace). While there I began reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. If you are at all interested in the topics of eating locally (aka "relocalizing" food or being a locovore), and the environmental impact of our food choices, you'll want to read this book. Here is a factoid taken from her pages that amazes me: "If every US citizen at just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally grown and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week." That's not gallons - it's barrels! Think about how fast this would decrease our dependence of oil.
Eating well for our improved health and the environment are important. Be certain that the recommendations that you follow are from an informed, unbiased source.
Take care.
~Laurie
Related Topics: Technorati Tags: healthy diet, belly fat
3 Comments:
A great article.
The whole notion of eating locally benefits in so many ways.
Seasonal food means variety. Local food means fuel that is closer to its original form and there by, infinitely healthier than the dead food that gets to us after weeks if not months.
Local trade becomes a viable proposition, again and of course as you state quite incredibly, fuel consumption drops by billions!
This is surely something to strive for.
Fifteen minute BBC film about what you want to know about flat belly diet. The story of how to get quick results, doctors advice, stories of those who have already done so.
http://tubedirect.net/index.php?q=BBC-flat-belly-diet
Highly recommended!
8times trips to the delivery room mom says ----streached to the max is just that & short of surgery I cannot imagine muscles having been streached that many times in the same area just melting away---w/ diet --not going to happen so doc's lighten up & face it.....those muscles once built may loose streangth but not size.forget the flat belly at this point live w/ it & be happy.
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