South Beach Diet

Cardiologist Dr Arthur Agatston developed the South Beat Diet to help his patients lose weight. When his diet plan was compared sided by side with the AHA recommended diet of the time his patients had significantly lower cholesterol, triglycerides and lost almost twice as much weight during the same time period.

While this diet became popular about the same time as other low carb plans such as Atkins they really are different approaches. The South Beach Diet has a much less restrictive diet, once you are past the first stage you are allowed to introduce some carbohydrates back into your diet as long as they are complex and unrefined carbohydrates. Additionally the first phase of the South Beach Diet last two weeks, where as the Atkins plan is an open ended time frame. Additionally this diet doesn’t advocate eating foods with high fat or soluble fats like other plans. While tests on these kinds of fats remain inconclusive many nutritionists advocate keeping these types of fats to a minimum. Additionally the South Beach Diet teaches you how to make healthy food choices choosing foods which have a low Glycemic Index number. Foods with a high glycemic index have been shown to increase the blood sugar in the body causing an energy boost followed by an energy crash, triggering a craving for foods with high sugar content.

That said the South Beach Diet is very popular plan that millions of people have used to successfully lose weight. Additionally it is viewed as one of the most open and least restrictive of all of the low carb diets today. This makes it a perfect choice for those who have failed on other low carb plans as well as people who haven’t tried any low carbohydrate diets.

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