With so many diets out there and so many opinions, how are you supposed to find the best plan for losing weight?
Finding the right diet can be harder than finding a needle in a hay field.
So here is what to look for when considering a diet:
1. Caloric intake. If the diet requires an extremely low caloric intake, then do not do it. How low? Anything below 1200 calories and you are looking for trouble.
2. Enough carbohydrates. If you have less than 100 grams of carbohydrates per day, your body will cannibalize muscle tissue. Moreover, your brain needs a steady supply of blood sugar in order to function at peak capacity.
3. Inclusion of all food groups. If the plan requires that you exclude a food group, it will most likely be very unhealthy. Why? Because wide varieties of foods interact with each other in ways that we currently do not understand.
4. Sufficient variety. Any plan should have sufficient variety to keep your palate appeased. The level of variety needed will vary from person to person. And if a diet requires a very narrow intake of food items then it will probably not be sustainable.
5. Up selling and cross selling of products. Be weary of diets where the author up sells and cross sells products from which he is affiliated. Such marketing schemes provide very biased information.
6. Supplement centrality. If the whole plan is central to a single dietary supplement, then it probably is based on faulty science at best. Stay away from one-hit-wonder programs.
Wading through all the different diets out there can be very overwhelming. And trying to figure out which ones are based on solid science can be virtually impossible for the average consumer. So follow my tips so that you can make an informed decision.
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