There are lots of various diets you can choose from, yet the number of overweight people keeps increasing. The issue doesn't rest with the lack of diets, as there are plenty, so could the diets themselves be to blame? The truth is that most people probably don't stick with a diet long enough to see results. However, there's an increased chance that you'll stick to a diet if it's suitable for you.
Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes or the TLC diet is a diet that you may have heard of. This is a diet that's endorsed by the American Heart Association because of its focus on eating heart healthy foods. This is worth thinking about as it is healthy and most diets just have you lose weight and don't keep you healthy. The TLC diet avoids food that will put your cholesterol up such as saturated fats. In this diet you have lots of fruit, veg and whole grains and stay away from red meat, fried foods and dairy. You may want to reduce your weight, or you may want to reduce your LDL cholesterol levels, and there are different versions of the diet for either. You will be supporting your health and eating better either way.
With the Volumetrics Diet there is a scientific element, so this may appeal to you. This diet was started by Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professor, and it is to do with how filling a food is relative to the calories in it, energy density of foods. If a food is high in volume but low in calories then it will help you to lose weight. Vegetables are a good example of this. There is an opposite to this, which is high density foods, having lots of calories in a small volume of the food like cookies or sweets. There are 4 categories for the Volumetrics Diet with 1 being the least dense foods and 4 most dense. You should eat as much of the first 2 groups as possible.
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