Diet Recommendations

[samkinison75]

Currently I been going with the lo carb ones. Its sorta depressing in a way, cause I find a lot of the food I eat is carbs. Is there any good recommendations for a good diet, maybe not so much with cutting out lo carbs? I am just looking for some diets that you would think have good results?

Currently, doing the south beach diet. Don't know really if I dig it or not.

[jayelowell]

forgive me for laughing!! haha! do not be fooled by the main stream diets! your body needs carbs! the best diet is a organic diet!

[samkinison75]

Is there any particuliar organic diet which you would recommend. I can definetly see the point your at with the mainstream diets, i guess I just don't know of too much else.

[zen_fox]

eat lots of plants and check here for the best on nutrition: naturalnews.com

[samkinison75]

That web site looks pretty good. Never heard of a plant based diet even though I was vegetarian for a while.

Do you know if Rice is really harmful? I hear both yes and no on this.

[samkinison75]

I think I can find some good info on this site. Thanks a lot. I was veggie for a while and its amazing how much of a new age thing it is. But being unhealthy seems to be bliss in these times.

[madthumbs]

eat lots of plants and check here for the best on nutrition: naturalnews.com

Why did they change the name from NewsTarget?

What is the purpose of the diet? What are the motivations behind the people promoting diets (like vegetarian)?

If you're trying to avoid obesity, I'd suggest checking out this article: Why You're Fat! (http://www.opposingdigits.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=95)

[megafish33]

Do you exercise?

If you love starchy carbs (like rice) try eating smaller servings of them with a fibrous carb source, like a big salad or broccoli. Eat something protein rich too. You can have both, your protein and carbs, with meals centered around beans, legumes, peas, and whole grains. Make a batch and eat smaller more frequent meals, with your breakfasts being the most dense on calories.

Think protein, starch, and fiber for each meal, while decreasing the amount of your starchy portions during the day(except for after a hard workout if you do it in the evening). This way you can still get your carbs but you put yourself in a muscle saving, fat burning, and very thermic mode. If you add oils or make your fibrous carb source something naturally high in fat (like a green salad where you add lots of avocado) just choose leaner choices of protein. Same goes if you leave you salad naked/cook greens and add a pat of butter to your broccoli(fibrous carb) or sweet potato(starchy carb) or what have you... In that cause, don't use the fattiest cut of beef you have on had/full fat tofu... choose leaner turkey or lighter tofu. Make sure to eat the protein portion first, as it has the most thermic effect of all types of foods. While this is hard to do for carboholics, it allows your starchy portion to work more effectually during digestion. Even better if you eat your meat or "meat" first and work on your starch while eating your fiber-packed veggies as well. And if you start to get full, stop eating, and preserve the food until you're hungry again.

Things to keep in mind:

Remember to choose most of your grains as whole grains... brown rice is better than the tastiest fragrant basmati rice. And no, rice isn't bad. Pastas are also very refined... after much milling and heating it becomes more of a refined food. Whole wheat bread is good, but fresh milled coarse whole wheat berries made into muesli is even better.

You can still eat foods with a high glycemic index, just make sure you're aware of the glycemic load-look it up if you don't know what I'm taking about. A high GI food like a small potato is perfectly healthy if eaten with fiber and protein; think, chicken breast, lightly steamed spinach, and potato.

If you're not accustomed to burning lots of fat(ie. you don't do some regular steady state cardiovascular exercise for more than 20min at a time) go easy on the oils. Yes, carbs can make you fat, but so can fat. High amounts of elevated blood sugar can make you fat, but so can high amounts of fats. The conversation of sugar into fat is quick and deadly but it's actually not as simple as the conversation of dietary fat into body fat. :p Many oil-rich whole foods are great, and full of important nutrients, but make sure you eat them whole, most of the time anyway... just like, when trying to be healthy you don't add tons of sugar to a bowl of oatmeal, don't add tons of oil to a salad if you already have olives in there, or seeds, or slivered almonds, or avocado slices, etc.

On your low carb diet being "depressing..." well it possibly is. Many carb rich foods have tons of B-vitamins and also increase serotonin, both in the brain and in the gut. Have you tried "low" carbing for more fat oxidation and having a carb up day/weekend to make sure your muscles and liver are full? You can get plenty of trace carbs by eating tons of fiber-rich veggies and a fruit or two as a snack. One eats this way for 5-6 days or so and then gradually introduces more carbs on his carb-up day or days... adding more whole grains, tubers, etc. Lots of people who train use this to increase their sensitivity to insulin and so they can properly respond to carbs instead of just getting overweight and sluggish on them.

Good luck!