Fitness Must

The South Beach Diet, a long, healthy and active life guarantee. The goal is the way we eat and changing lives through healthy eating and be fitter. For the past decades has created an obesity epidemic in the Western world. And this causes a wide range of health problems such as getting a heart attack, stroke, pre-obesity, obesity, many types of cancer, psoriasis, acne, depression, etc …

The obesity epidemic is caused by our sedentary lifestyles and poor eating habits. One reason is because the nutritional value of our food over the years is greatly reduced, because we have to cultivate the crops for resistance, taste and appearance and not with a view to nutrition. The foods are also much longer shelf life through food processing to prevent spoilage and removed important food substances such as sodium and trans fats added. Fortunately, more and more people back to use organic food, traditional vegetables and traditional vegetables, which you can stay healthy and many chronic and degenerative diseases can occur.

But how are we fatter?

Mid 80′s began the UK Department of Health together with FSA (Food Standards Agency) the benefits of low-fat, carbohydrate-rich diet to promote and actively put them to focus on bread, potatoes, rice, pasta and cereals as the basis of a sound pattern . Fats and oils should be used sparingly. This has played a role in the swelling of the population. The problem was that the national recommendations did not distinguish between good carbs and bad carbs or between good fats and bad fats. While sugar was advised, was starch (complex carbohydrates) is recommended.They did not know then that fiber starch, like white bread and potatoes, the sugar to rise as fast as regular sugar. Because this starch had a high glycemic index. In response to the food industry began to promote low-fat baked products including cakes, cookies and cakes with refined white flour and varying amounts of sugar. The use of saturated fats in these products to avoid the fat was replaced by vegetable oils. But these foods a longer shelf life and better resistance to baking to give hydrogenated oils were or were partially hydrogenated vegetable oils used in the formation of harmful trans fats caused. Although trans fats were first developed as a healthier alternative to saturated fats, they later proved to be even worse.

It became clear that we, in our attempt to reduce the fat intake, increasing amounts of bad carbohydrates consumed, ie, more sweets and refined starch products that essentially contain no fiber or other nutrients. These cause excessive fluctuations in sugar levels, resulting in demand for more refined carbs and constant hunger.The reason why we have always hungry, is clearly using the glycemic index, a measure of how carbohydrates in a specific food can affect the sugar. The sugar foods that are good and stable on the low GI, which include whole grains, most vegetables, fruits and sugars (such as berries), which are digested slowly and you feel full a long time. Fibers are a decisive factor in determining the GI of a food, but there are other factors, such as the extent to which a food is processed, how long it is cooked and the acid content thereof.
Conclusion: Fiber-free, starch-rich foods make us hungry due to the fluctuations of our sugar. And the hungrier we are, the more we eat, and the more we arrive. It is a vicious circle.

How can we overcome the obesity epidemic?
The South Beach Diet would have the answer. The goal of South Beach Diet is to help you lose weight safely and the rest of your life to stay healthy and fit. The South Beach Diet is not a protein, carbohydrate-poor diet and it is not a low fat diet. It is a diet with good nutrition, which consists of a wide variety of healthy foods and you learn that your life better food choices.

The principles of the South Beach Diet
You eat three meals a day and at least 2 snacks. You eat large portions, fair enough food, including nutritious, fiber-rich carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables and whole grains), lean protein, good unsaturated fats and low fat dairy products.

Here Are you a brief summary of the Stages of the South Beach diet:

Phase I: Which lasts 2 weeks, and for many people who lose weight or who have strong desire for sweets and refined starches. During this phase begins the weight, touch your sugar stabilized and you pull with a less healthy diet based on lean protein and lots of vegetables and salads, beans and other legumes, nuts, lean cheese, eggs, skimmed milk and good unsaturated fats. What you can not eat are starch (bread, pasta, rice) and sugars (including fruits and juices).

Phase II: This is for people who want to lose 4.5 kg or less and no desire for sweets. If you phase 1 to phase 2, you’ll discover that your weight continues to decrease steadily (but slowly) and you will be feeling less hungry. Gradually take back the forbidden foods in phase 1 were included good carbs (fruits, wholemeal bread, wholemeal pasta and brown rice), and some root vegetables, like sweet potatoes). You may occasional glass of red or white wine to take lunch or dinner h.

Phase III: This phase begins when you’ve come to your goal weight. The principles of this phase are guidelines for how we should all eat.

I put this in another article. But it is mainly about diet, good carbs, good fats and lean proteins. The bad fats to avoid and resolutely choosing fibers.

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