The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss - M.D. Arthur Agatston

The South Beach Diet is based around the principles of eating good carbs and good fats, so it’s in with salads, vegetables, lean steaks, chicken breasts and oily fish, and out with pies, cakes, chip butties, sausages and sugary drinks. The author of this book is Dr Arthur Agatston, a cardiologist based in Miami. He created this diet to meet the needs of his patients, as he felt that the diet recommended to his patients that focused on eating ...
...It is based around the principle of the Glycemic Index – the rate sugars are broken down and released into the blood stream. When we've eaten, carbohydrates in food are digested and broken down into their basic sugars. These are then released into the blood stream for our bodies to either use immediately for energy, or to be stored as fat for later use. This large surge of sugar in our blood causes our body to releases insulin to steady the ...

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Review of The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss - M.D. Arthur Agatston

I came across the South Beach Diet a few years ago as the book was a freebie on a magazine. I'd previously heard of the Atkins diet and thought it far too extreme for me. Don't get me wrong, I'm keen to lose weight but cutting out specific food groups indefinitely isn't something that I would be able to sustain or that imagined would be particularly healthy - not to mention some of the side effects that I had seen on TV and in magazines. In my opinion, ...
...cut out all carbs for the first 14 days, then slowly start to introduce good carbs back into the diet after 14 days. I really likes all the information at the front of this book about how the body functions and uses its food to create energy - the author is a highly respected cardiologist, but he speaks in everyday language so its easy to understand and he adds in great case study stories. I absolutely stuck to the diet for the first 14 days and ...

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Review of The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss - M.D. Arthur Agatston

...what is now known as the south beach diet. The diet is primarily aimed at lowering bad cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure. Unlike the Atkins diet which is high protein and fat, with minimal fruit or veg, this diet encourages the use of low fat dairy and healthy fats (such as olive and fish oils). The diet is also high in vegetables. The resulst is an extremely easy to follow diet based on sound medical advice. There are three phases ...
...number of delicious recipes in the book but the priciples can be adapted to suit your own personal preferences. Breakfast include omlettes, bacon and others. Lunch and dinner tend to be a protein source (either meat or pulses) with plenty of veg and salads. There are plenty of acceptable dressings and sauces as well. The diet promotes three meals a day with snacks in between as well as dessert. Although the desserts are a little limited since sugar ...

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Review of The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss - M.D. Arthur Agatston