RE: Eating Right & Living Better

The South Beach Diet Is Hot; Here's Why

WebMD:

It started out simply enough. Arthur Agatston, MD, a cardiologist, decided to develop an eating plan that would improve the cholesterol and insulin levels of his patients with heart disease. Now, the South Beach diet has grown into something much bigger. That's because the plan Agatston created not only improves cholesterol and insulin levels, but it also has helped many people lose weight.

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Agatston's book about his plan, The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss, has become a best seller and it appears to be poised to overtake the controversial Atkins diet in popularity.

I've not yet read the book, but it seems to be a common sense, low-carb approach to better health, falling somewhere between the Atkins approach and the Zone diet.

Let me know what you think.

Eat right. Live better.

-Tim

Atkins Studies Report Meaty Results

USATODAY.com:

Just a month after his death, controversial diet guru Robert Atkins may be getting a little more respect. Two new studies in Thursday's prestigious New England Journal of Medicine show that dieters who followed the meat-lovers' low-carb diet lost more than twice as much weight as those on a traditional low-calorie, high-carb diet.

Exciting news on the low-carb diet front.

Eat right. Live better.

-Tim

Is The Zone Diet Good for Health and Weight?

WebMD:

Celebrities including Jennifer Aniston, Madonna, and Demi Moore have used The Zone diet to achieve their highly admired svelte figures. But is this diet that takes into account hormones and balancing acts just another fad diet or can it actually produce weight loss along with good health?

An interesting, and balanced, review of the Zone diet by the folks at WebMD.

Eat right. Live Better.

-Tim