No 2 - Soup. I always end up being hungrier AFTER I eat a bowl of soup than before.
You missed one!
Not sure how this plays on the diabetes front, but for arthritis and gout and bp it’s supposed to be dam near miraculous.
Eat celery!
(I luv the stuff. Lucky, I guess, I like alot of things like celery and spinach and blueberries and eggs that are good for me)
I would dispute the yogurt claim. Yogurt is still dairy and milk is a type of carbohydrate. More scientific research shows that calcium itself seems to boost the metabolism of fat in and of itself. Skip the carbs of yogurt and just take calcium supplements in my opinion. It’s more measured.
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Thanks for posting this. My stepson was told by his doctor yesterday to lose weight or diabetes and heart disease are right around the corner. He’s 42. I just printed it out and will deliver it to him, stat.
I dunno, I go back and forth between eating a healthy diet of the kind described in this article (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, some lean chicken and fish, with a few berries and yogurt for dessert, plus green tea to drink) and eating the South Beach or modified Atkins diet (lots of protein and almost no carbs initially, then gradually adding back in a few low-sugar carbs gotten from vegetables). I’ll tell you, I really want to eat the recommended diet, but it’s the carb-free meat-and-cheese diet that drains the water right out of me and drops the blood glucose levels within about five days. So I don’t really know.
These articles amaze me. Is there really anything new here that anyone over 15 does not already know all too well. We may not follow this good advice but it is not because we have not heard it a million times.
I would tend to think that fruit is high in natural sugars and is ingested and digested rather quickly dumping sugar into your blood sugar.
That grapefruit nonsense has been debunked so many times. I’m amazed that someone who wants to be taken seriously would include it in an article such as this.
Water is not food - it shouldn’t be on the list at all.
Eggs should be on the list. Eat 1 or 2 eggs for breakfast and you will not be hungry the rest of the day.
Bookmarking, thanks for posting!
The whole trick to losing weight is to separate the consumption of carbs from the consumption of proteins and fats.
Leave 3 hours between the consumption of either group, and you will only gain weight if you over eat carbs.
Fruit should only be eaten on an empty stomach.
Follow 20 mins later with carbs and veggies, or one hour later with a protein / fat / veggie meal.
Vegtables are free. :-)
It’s easy, and it works.
Thanks for the post. ;-)
I didn't see vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup on this list... ... ...
OK Doc, how do you reconcile the recommendations in this article with carb and sodium limits? Brocolli, carrots, beans, shakes, and cereals all carry a significant carb load. Most of the broth soups I have looked at are high in sodium.
Here is a curve that I love to throw at my diet advisors. I am allergic to a lot of vegetables, most notably in this article is tomatoes, and almost all fresh fruits and melons. This creates a lot of problems for me in maintaining a balanced diet. Any recommendations?
And while you are recommending, please address the (apparently widespread) problem that diabetics have with not getting enough fiber. My low-carb, 1800 calorie diet makes it a bear to get enough fiber.
Here’s a really novel idea: burn more calories than you eat.
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