This week, our search for a healthy diet brings us to the South Beach Diet. The South Beach Diet is a creation of an M.D. in—guess where—Miami Beach, Florida. Cardiologist Arthur Agastson came up with the diet as an alternative to low-fat diets, which his patients had difficulty staying on. Dr. Agastson’s goal was to [...]
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Is Dr. Barry Sears’ Zone diet a truly healthy diet? The theory behind Barry Sears’ Zone Diet is that when you tightly control the balance of the macronutrients—protein, fat, and carbohydrates—your body produces the right kind of eicosanoids. Eicosanoids are the body’s superhormones, and when you stimulate the production of the “good” ones your blood-sugar [...]
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Did Nathan Pritikin provide the world with a healthy diet when he came up with his “Pritikin Plan”? He was a believer in the dietary fat/cholesterol leading to heart disease. So, when he came out with his diet in the 1960′s, one of the main components was that fat provided no more – preferably less [...]
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Anyone figuring out a healthy diet plan knows that water should be the number one “food” they consume every day. You probably know it. I know it. Yet, whenever the weather suddenly becomes cold (there is no gradual temperature change in north Texas; one day, it’s 85 degrees, the next, it’s 50 with a forecast low [...]
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Looking for a healthy diet? In today’s post, as I continue with a ten-part series, “Why Diets Suck”, I analyze The Raw Food Vegan (or, Raw Vegan) Diet. This diet has gotten more and more press lately, as it gains more and more adherents to its radical lifestyle. It’s almost a sort of cult, with [...]
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Should a good healthy diet include soy-based foods? Tofu and other soy-related products began to grow in popularity in the United States back in the 1960’s and 70’s. The hippie vegetarians, with their cries that eating animals was cruel and that animal fat caused heart attacks, began using soy products as a replacement for meat and [...]
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Soon, healthy diets to lose weight will be in high demand. Come January 1, thousands upon thousands of well-meaning Americans will resolve to lose so many pounds. Books on weight loss will fly off bookstore and library shelves. Amazon will probably see a nice increase in profit that month. And while a handful of those New [...]
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There are a lot of claims out there as to what constitutes a healthy diet. Some say unpasteurized milk products are dangerous; others say they are not only safe to consume, but extremely healthy. Some say meat is bad for you; others say you need it daily if you don’t want to risk nutritional deficiencies. [...]
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How do you prevent osteoporosis? There is a lot of talk in both the medical and natural health field these days about how to answer that question. The usual response is, “Take a calcium supplement”, or, “Drink more milk.” But is extra calcium really the answer? Let’s look at the milk factor first. The command [...]
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What is the truth about grains? Are they good or bad? Who’s right, the pro-meat Paleos or the anti-meat vegans? Weston A. Price supposedly found that people with healthy teeth ate a lot of animal products. But John Robbins’ research leads him to believe that the longest-lived people eat meat only on occasion, and dairy [...]
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