Is The Atkins Grapefruit Diet Real?

By Joy Mitchell

The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not endorsed by the company of Dr. Atkins, that plays on the popularity of the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet name. A closer inspection of this diet reveals that it may not be all it purports to be.

Firstly, it's pretty difficult to find information on the Atkins grapefruit diet plan. Smart people realize that when anyone is carrying out a deception, or a con, they will often gloss over facts. This is exactly what the Atkins grapefruit diet seems to do: it tries to get people to associate it with two purportedly effective diets.

So, is the Atkins Grapefruit Diet part of the Atkins Diet or endorsed by the company of the late Dr. Atkins? The answer is a resounding 'no', not only is there no mention of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet on the Atkins website, but there is no fruit of any kind mentioned in the list of permitted foods in the Atkins diet Induction phase.

The induction phase recommends the following foodstuffs:

Fish of any kinds; any fowl such as turkey and chicken; any shellfish; any meat such as beef or pork; eggs prepared in any style, including fried; cheese; vegetables; herbs and spices; fats and oils; low carbohydrate beverages, including diet sodas.

Notice anything? No fruit is mentioned on that list. Later phases of the Atkins diet do include small amounts of fruits such as cantaloupe and even lemon juice, and the pre-maintenance and maintenance phases even specifically permit small quantities of grapefruit. But when compared to the amount of Grapefruit recommended on the Atkins Grapefruit Diet, once more there is a disagreement.

The Atkins Grapefruit Diet advocates a cup of grapefruit juice or a cup of grapefruit sections, with 8 and 18 carbs respectively. Even the most generous phases of the Atkins diet advocates limiting grapefruit intake to less than 8 carbs per day. That's a direct contradiction of one diet with the other.

Most reasonable people would inspect the Atkins website itself the moment they heard about the Atkins Grapefruit Diet. If they found no mention of that diet on the website, then a red light would go off and an alarm would ring.

Generally speaking, you should remember this: any diet that relies too heavily on one foodstuff, such as grapefruit on a grapefruit diet, is not healthy for all but very short periods of time. The Atkins Grapefruit Diet is nothing to do with the Atkins diet, and may disrupt with the results of the Atkins diet in its early stages. - 32002

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A Good Low Fat Low Cholesterol Diet From HFL Solutions

By Dr. Sam Robbins

There are numerous low fat low cholesterol diets. However, before you start one of the diets you should consult with your doctor.

Are you sick of living on a low fat low cholesterol diet? It is difficult for many people to eat beans, rice, fish, oatmeal and veggies as a steady daily diet. You will find that a low fat low cholesterol diet consists of a lot of fruits and vegetables because they are full of vitamins and low in calories. You will increase your cholesterol by consuming saturated fats.

Trans fats such as those found in partially hydrogenated products can increase your cholesterol. You'll find these in some vegetable shortenings and margarines. If you cannot avoid dairy products all together, stick to organic low fat milks and yogurts.

The Mediterranean diet is a diet commonly seen in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. This diet emphasizes the consumption of lean meats, olive oil, red wine, whole grains, and plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. The Mediterranean diet lowers cholesterol by lowering LDL and raising HDL.

A vegetarian diet provides many healthy benefits to you. Typically high in antioxidants and low in fats, some studies are suggesting that a vegetarian diet is heart-healthy.

The National Cholesterol Education Program as a part of a therapeutic lifestyle changes to lower cholesterol and encourages a health heart has designed a diet called the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes diet or TLC diet.

Normally when you think of a healthy diet to lower cholesterol, the first thing that comes to your mind is eating low fat. However, studies suggest that carbohydrate intake is also vital to control your cholesterol.

CholesLo is guaranteed to reduce your cholesterol in 30 days. Many people see a difference in cholesterol levels in only 7 days. That is one week to lower cholesterol without changing your diet at all! This all natural supplement is made from the finest and safest ingredients. - 32002

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Tips To Having A Lower Cholesterol Diet From Dr. Sam Robbins

By Dr. Sam Robbins

A bowl of oatmeal, a handful of walnuts or a baked potato topped with a heart healthy margarine may be enough to lower your cholesterol to a healthy level and keep you off medications.

Oatmeal is one food item that has soluble fiber which will reduce your low density lipoprotein (LDL), the bad cholesterol. You can find soluble fiber in kidney beans, apples, pears, psyllium, barley and prunes.

To decrease your total and LDL cholesterol eat ten grams or more soluble fiber a day. Eating 1 1/2 cups of cooked oatmeal provides 6 grams of fiber. If you add fruit, such as bananas, you'll add about 4 more grams of fiber. You can also eat cold cereal made with oatmeal or oat bran.

To reduce your blood cholesterol you should eat walnuts according to research. You can keep your blood vessels healthy and elastic with you eat foods such as walnuts that are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. Almonds and other nuts produce the same effect, however, only eat a handful because nuts are high in calories.

Because of its high levels of omega 3 fatty acids eating fatty fish has lowered cholesterol according to researchers. Reducing blood pressure and the risk of blood clots is another way Omega 3 fatty acids helps the heart. Fish oil or omega 3 fatty acids reduces the risk of sudden death in people who already have heart problems.

To get heart healthy benefits it is recommended by the Food and Drug Administration to eat 2 tablespoons of olive oil a day. You can get olive oil into your diet by adding it to a marinade, by using it to saute vegetables or mix it with vinegar as a salad dressing. When you are basting meat use olive oil rather than butter. Olive oil contains a potent mix of antioxidants that can lower your "bad" (LDL) cholesterol but leave your "good" (HDL) cholesterol untouched.

Food items such as margarines, orange juice and yogurt drinks can reduce LDL cholesterol by more than 10 percent because they are fortified with plant sterols. By drinking two 8 ounce glasses of sterol fortified orange juice a day gives you the needed 2 grams of plant sterols.

Before you make other changes to your diet, think about cutting back on the types and amounts of fats you eat, which can raise your cholesterol. That way, you'll improve your cholesterol levels and health overall. - 32002

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A Good Low Fat Low Cholesterol Diet From HFL Solutions

By Dr. Sam Robbins

There are many low fat low cholesterol diets available. However, before you start one of these diets you should consult your doctor.

Are you sick of living on a low fat low cholesterol diet? It is difficult for many people to eat beans, rice, fish, oatmeal and veggies as a steady daily diet. You will find that a low fat low cholesterol diet consists of a lot of fruits and vegetables because they are full of vitamins and low in calories. You will increase your cholesterol by consuming saturated fats.

Your cholesterol will be increased by trans fats which are found in partially hydrogenated products. Trans fats are found in some vegetable shortenings and margarines. Stick to organic low fat milks and yogurts if you cannot avoid dairy products.

The Mediterranean diet is a diet commonly seen in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. This diet emphasizes the consumption of lean meats, olive oil, red wine, whole grains, and plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. The Mediterranean diet lowers cholesterol by lowering LDL and raising HDL.

A vegetarian diet provides many healthy benefits to you. Typically high in antioxidants and low in fats, some studies are suggesting that a vegetarian diet is heart-healthy.

The National Cholesterol Education Program as a part of a therapeutic lifestyle changes to lower cholesterol and encourages a health heart has designed a diet called the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes diet or TLC diet.

Normally when you think of a healthy diet to lower cholesterol, the first thing that comes to your mind is eating low fat. However, studies suggest that carbohydrate intake is also vital to control your cholesterol.

CholesLo is guaranteed to lower your cholesterol in thirty days. Many see a difference in cholesterol levels in only seven days. You do not have to change your diet in those seven days. This is a natural supplement and is made from the finest and safest ingredients. - 32002

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Low Carb Diet Recipes

By Joy Mitchell

So you're going on the Atkins Diet. It's not necessarily your first diet and until you try this, you can't be certain that it will be your last dieting attempt. Everything you've tried so far has failed you and you're on the verge of giving up dieting altogether. Naturally, this has been the case many times before and yet you've still found yourself trying diet after diet without too much remorse. Now however you live in the hope that with the Atkins low carb diet recipes that you have tucked firmly in your pocket, that you'll be able to beat your track record of yo-yo dieting.

You go home full of excitement and plans to buy that little black dress you've been looking at now for a few months. You won't go out and buy it immediately of course, no, that would just jinx your dieting efforts, but with the help of the Atkins low carb diet recipes you shouldn't have too long to wait.

So, you get home and sit in your kitchen going through the lists of low carb diet foods you're allowed to eat, and you start to worry about what you have got yourself into. You have absolutely no idea how you're going to cook some of these low carb diet foods, and besides that they don't sound half as appetizing as Frank's pizza from over the road.

Despair hits you and you kiss that little black dress goodbye, there's no way you can live off these low carb diet foods, and you don't even think you could prepare them if you did go out and buy the ingredients. That's when inspiration hits you, naturally enough, and you remember the Atkins low carb diet recipes that you have lying in your purse.

You had put the two objects in two different parts of your cavernous purse and had entirely forgotten about the Atkins low carb diet recipes which you had been given previously. You are happy again and you can see the black dress within your grasp. So now you sit down and make a list of the low carb diet foods that you'll need to start your very first Atkins low carb diet recipes.

The first thing you need to do though, is take all that lovely high carb food from your cupboards to the nearest shelter and make a healthy donation of food. You don't care what the family says, they're all going to eat Atkins low carb diet recipes.

Next, you hightail it to the supermarket and buy the things on your food list which you'll need to cook the first meal of your Atkins low carb diet recipes. And on the way back, you'll stop off at the little dress shop around the corner and promise the little black dress in the window, that you'll be it's wearer soon, as long as you stick with those Atkins low carb diet recipes! - 32002

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Learning from Other Cultures

By Chris Arribbat

Most people have learned something about cholesterol, and many of us have been to the doctor for a blood test to learn our cholesterol "number." Now, however, it turns out that there's more than one kind of cholesterol, too. Almost every day there are newspaper reports of new studies or recommendations about what to eat or what not to eat: Lard is bad, olive oil is good, margarine is better for you than butter-- then again, maybe it's not. Once upon a time, we didn't know anything about fat except that it made foods tastier. We cooked our food in lard or shortening. We spread butter on our breakfast toast and plopped sour cream on our baked potatoes. Farmers bred their animals to produce milk with high butterfat content and meat "marbled" with fat because that was what most people wanted to eat.

Doctors recommend that total blood cholesterol be kept below 200mg/dl. The average level in adults in this country is 205 to 215mg/dl. Studies in the United States and other countries have consistently shown that total cholesterol levels above 200 to 220mg/dl are linked with an increased risk of coronary heart disease. LDL-cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol act differently in the body. A high level of LDL- in turn increases the risk of a heart attack. Thus, LDL-cholesterol has been dubbed "bad" cholesterol.

At first glance, it seems reasonable to think that eating less cholesterol would reduce a person's cholesterol level. In fact, eating less cholesterol has less effect on blood cholesterol levels than eating less saturated fat. However, some studies have found that eating cholesterol increases the risk of heart disease even if it doesn't increase blood cholesterol levels.whole-milk dairy products. Only foods of animal origin contain cholesterol.

In'08, scientists first observed that rabbits fed a diet of meat, whole milk, and eggs developed fatty deposits on the walls of their arteries that constricted the flow of blood. Narrowing of the arteries by these fatty deposits is called atherosclerosis. It is a slowly progressing disease that can begin early in life but not show symptoms for many years. In'13, scientists identified the substance responsible for the fatty deposits in the rabbits' arteries as cholesterol. In'16, Cornelius de Langen, a Dutch physician working in Java, Indonesia, noticed that native Indonesians had much lower rates of heart disease than Dutch colonists living on the island. He reported this finding to a medical journal, speculating that the Indonesians' healthy hearts were linked with their low levels of blood cholesterol.

Omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids have also been found in some studies to reduce both LDL- and HDL-cholesterol levels in the blood. Linoleic acid, an essential nutrient (one that the body cannot make for itself) and a component of corn, soybean and safflower oil, is an omega-6 fatty acid. At one time, many nutrition experts recommended increasing consumption of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats because of their cholesterol-lowering effects. Now, however, the advice is simply to reduce dietary intake of all types of fat. (Infants and young children, however, should not restrict dietary fat.) - 32002

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A Healthier You Quite a few years back, we didn't know anything about fat except that it made foods tastier. We cooked our food in lard or shortening. We spread butter on our morning toast and poured sour cream on our jacket potatoes. Farmers bred their herds to produce milk with high butterfat content and meat "marbled" with fat because that was what most people wanted to eat. A Healthier You