Posted on 12/10/2004 3:15:09 PM PST by Rakkasan1
MINNEAPOLIS -- Florida's got the South Beach diet. Now Minnesota's got the "Northwoods Diet." That's what University of Minnesota professor David Bernlohr came up with as the solution when he noticed his waistline expanding. After all, he's an obesity researcher.
Bernlohr said he'd fallen into the traditional American habits of skipping breakfast, eating too much and eating too late at night.
So he put himself on his own diet -- what he jokingly dubbed the "Northwoods Diet," poking fun at the fad diet industry and the popular South Beach diet.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
..."You can't have sex at your desk and you can't drink booze at your desk and you can't inject drugs at your desk, but you can eat a doughnut. Nobody's going to stop you," he said."
guess the Dr. never met Bill Clinton or Uncle Teddy.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Too true.
A snack just before bedtime is necessary to avoid an early morning blood sugar spike.
The problem for a diabetic is that when they are not awake, up and moving around, all that happens is they will have high blood sugar which will damage blood vessels.
There is only one diet that works: eat less and work harder.
And BTW, after each of my children was born I lost 75 pounds on Atkins, and kept it off. I'm what you call middle-aged, but at 5-10 I stay 135 pounds, even when terrible weather or asthma keep me from exercising outdoors.
People don't seem to understand that the metabolism of men and women is DIFFERENT, and even within each sex people are DIFFERENT. Not every diet is going to work for everybody.
my metabolism was the only good thing I inherited from any
relative.
I'm still on the see-food diet.
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