low fat diet
Healthy Diet
What is a healthy diet? The answer will vary depending on who you ask. Everything from the food pyramid with a “balanced” diet from all food groups, to the calorie counting Weight Watchers to the carb limited Low Carb diet. All of these groups have their own definition of what “healthy” is.
I think it’s easier [...]
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Kimkins Maintenance Plan
Is there such a thing? Not to my knowledge. The very few people that have followed Kimkins to goal seem to maintain the weight by still doing Kimkins. Experimenting with adding a few carbs, then cutting back again to take off any weight regain. A typical yo-yo approach that will work as long as you [...]
What Makes Kimkins Dangerous
It’s not really that it’s an extreme low carb, low fat, low calorie diet.
After all, there are other low calorie diets out there. Just look at the latest issue of Women’s World or some other women’s magazine and I can guarantee that the recommended diet is low calorie. It may not be announced as such [...]
Dieting Makes You Fat
At least the Kimkins diet seems to. Just look at what it did to Kimmer a.k.a. Heidi Diaz.
She went from this
to this
And that was when she according to herself was an “expert” dieter:
I’ve studied weight loss plans for a lifetime, noting what worked. What didn’t. And, most importantly, why. Not only from personal experience, but [...]
Confusing Diet Study
The results from a diet study comparing low carb, Mediterranean, and low fat diets made the news the other day. As always, the results are not easily interpreted. Just look at the headlines this particular study inspired:
Long-Term Diet Study Suggests Success Is Hard to Come By
Diet Plans Produce Similar Results
The Never-Ending Diet Wars
Diet Debate: 3 [...]
Returning to Kimkins
The Kimkins Diet website was launched in June 2006 but had a rather obscure existence until an article in Women’s World magazine caused a large influx of customers one year later.
Many people tried the diet but rightly decided that the diet was not sustainable and disappeared. The $59.95 membership fee was written off as yet [...]
Feeding Off Body Fat
Kimmer, the founder of the Kimkins Diet, has always insisted that starvation mode does not exist as long as there is body fat to burn for energy. Her diet suggested a daily calorie limit of 500 or less, later adjusted upwards to 710. The rest of the body’s needs would be taken from body fat.
For [...]
How Much Fiber?
How much fiber should I eat? It’s not easy to find an answer to that question.
FDA says 28 grams, minimum (14 grams per 1,000 calories).
Numerous google hits tell me that “high fat, low fiber” causes constipation. Of course, none of them say anything about the total carb consumption on the low fat diet they recommend. [...]
Low Carb Fiber
One of the main concerns for people starting a low carb diet is the apparent lack of fiber in the diet. I say “apparent” because it’s really a misconception. One of those accepted “truths” that keeps on being repeated over and over again.
The FDA recommends 28 grams of fiber for a 2,000 cal diet. Using [...]
