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[no dialogue]. my name is tiffany cavaretto,and i'm a graduate dietetics nutrition student at easternillinois university. today, i want to talk to youabout fad diets. a fad diet is a diet thatbecomes popular very quickly how to lose weight without dieting, and just as quickly fallsout of popularity. there are many ways that youcan recognize a fad diet. a fad diet often makes claimsthat are too good to be true, such as lose 10 poundsin two days. it also promises a quick fixor makes recommendations based on a single study. fad diets also may eliminate oneor more of the five food groups and may label foods as goodor bad and it may have complex rules or guidelinesfor you to follow. there are many examples of faddiets out there, but today i want to highlightspecifically three of them and i will explain what thepremise of the diet is, the pros and cons of the diet,and why it is a fad diet. the first i'd like to talkabout is the atkins diet. i have the book right here,you can still ge...

You don’t have to be new to low-carb diets in order to make one of these 6 dieting mistakes . They are just as common among those who have been dieting for a while. That’s because as time goes on, we tend to become more relaxed in the way we implement our personal carb-restriction programs, and forget what’s most important. So whether you’re new to the low-carb lifestyle or have been journeying for months, here are the top 6 dieting mistakes you’ll want to avoid. 1. Not Eating Enough Salt Mistake #1: Not Eating Enough Salt (Photo by Casey Konstantin ) This mistake cannot be stressed highly enough, because it’s the foundation for the low-carb myth that the Induction Flu is about detoxing from carbohydrates or sugar. It’s not. When you begin a low-carb diet, the body loses most of its glycogen stores. Since there’s 3 or 4 grams of water attached to each gram of glycogen, you’re going to lose a ton of water in the first few days. That will throw your electrolytes out of balance. Electroly...

There’s a thread over at Low-Carb Friends specifically devoted to those who have decided to return to a low-carb diet. It isn’t really about anything. It’s just a place to announce your intention of trying again. In a way, it’s a spot where you can declare your New Year’s Resolution to return home to where you know you belong. To return home to where you know you can shed the weight you’ve regained over the past few months or years. The problem is that achieving success with a low-carb or moderate-carb diet often takes more than just a choice to return to carbohydrate restriction. Only a strong nutritional foundation can convert a low-carb diet into a lifestyle. Yet, most of these individuals have returned wearing their dieting mindset on their sleeve. They believe that this time things will be different. This time they will do better. This time they won’t stray. If that’s your attitude as well, you might want to reconsider what you’re doing, and why. Weight Loss Success as Taug...

I’ve received a few questions lately asking me how I managed to make a low carb diet work so well for me. These questions are coming from individuals who have tried The Atkins Diet, as written, but have not found it to work as promised. With all of the various Atkins' diets to choose from – Atkins ‘72, Atkins ‘92, Atkins ’99, Atkins 2002, and the latest version called A New Atkins for a New You – which one did I use? Which version worked best for me? Other questions have asked how to make a low carb diet work, period. What can people do when Atkins stops working or when it doesn’t work to begin with? How can you tweak a low carb diet to achieve success? So this first post is going to be an introduction to that topic, and then future posts will go more into detail of how I actually lost over 100 pounds following a low carb diet. The Atkins Diet as written is an attempt to reach the greatest majority of individuals. It is a general guideline that works for most people, but it does no...

(This is part 4 of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . It discusses my weight loss journey so far. If you didn’t read part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link. Part 1 also includes links to the rest of the series.)  I took a quick glance at the archives to see if I could discover exactly when I first started doing the Kimkins Diet back in 2007, but I kept it quiet due to the controversy surrounding that plan. I can remember communicating with Jimmy Moore several times back then, as he was doing the Kimkins Diet himself, but I couldn’t find anything I had actually posted to this blog. People were very emphatic back then that you had to eat a certain amount of dietary fat. You had to eat a ton of protein, and you had to get a certain amount of calories, or you were not doing low carb. Because of these self-made dietary restrictions, these same individuals refused to call Kimkins a low carb diet. They insisted it was a glucose-burning diet, even though it...

(This is Part 2 of a two-part series. If you didn't read Part 1, you can find it here . This post was originally published at my Sharing the Magic of Low-Carb Living blog. I'm moving it here because the information is important and I have other plans for that blog now.) Once I realized that the zero-carb folks didn't understand biology, I stopped posting to that particular forum. I didn't know if I was hurting myself by being there. However, I was enjoying the thread on Frankenfoods, and I couldn't read and participate in that thread unless I was a member of the forum. So I just kept silently reading. In addition to the forum, I read everything about biochemistry that I could find on education websites. I read everything on the Bloodsugar 101 website. And I read everything on the "Over 50s" thread at the zero-carb forum as well. That thread began to reveal a lot of things that I was going through. From the gain of belly fat, to the rise in blood sugars, I ...

♪♪♪ when it comes to nutrition,i rely heavily on the research that's been publishedin journals and done by scientists allover the world. but just because something'sbeen discovered in the lab does not mean that it'snecessarily gonna carry over into the real world. so i test it on myselfand thousands of people who follow my advice. so with all that data, i'm ableto sort of bring it all together into the best nutritionadvice that's out there. with the nutrition programfor "shortcut to shred," it's all based onmacronutrients. getting the protein tocomplement the recovery from the training helps you to buildmore strength and muscle. that's gonna keep youalso burning more body fat. in the "shortcut to shred"program, the macronutrients are ranked protein first,fat is actually second, and then carbs comein third place. protein is the most criticalmacronutrient on the "shortcut to shred" programfor the simple fact that muscle is m...

♪♪♪ when it comes to nutrition,i rely heavily on the research that's been publishedin journals and done by scientists allover the world. but just because something'sbeen discovered in the lab does not mean that it'snecessarily gonna carry over into the real world. so i test it on myselfand thousands of people who follow my advice. so with all that data, i'm ableto sort of bring it all together into the best nutritionadvice that's out there. with the nutrition programfor "shortcut to shred," it's all based onmacronutrients. getting the protein tocomplement the recovery from the training helps you to buildmore strength and muscle. that's gonna keep youalso burning more body fat. in the "shortcut to shred"program, the macronutrients are ranked protein first,fat is actually second, and then carbs comein third place. protein is the most criticalmacronutrient on the "shortcut to shred" programfor the simple fact that muscle is m...