Body Type Diet
Top 5 Popular Diets
Executive summary about body type diet by John Parks
the body type diet
With so many various diets available, it’s hard to know which one will work for you. In this article, we’ll weed out some of the diets that have been proven unsuccessful and look at the top 5 popular diets available today.
Body Type Diet - The Body Type Diet is very popular right now because your specific body type determines it. By deciphering your body type, this diet will tell you which foods will help burn fat and keep your metabolism at it’s peak. In this diet you consume small amounts of food very frequently which will continuously fuel your body and help you lose weight.
South Beach Diet - The South Beach Diet is a weight-loss plan that concentrates on eating good carbohydrates and good fats. Because there is such a wide variety of food available on this diet, it is extremely popular among dieters. It is supposed to be used as a weight loss tool and lifestyle change.
Cookie Diet - The Cookie Diet is the answer to many people’s prayers. Eat cookies and lose weight? With the Cookie Diet, you consume cookies that are made of organic ingredients that will suppress your appetite and taste great. Aside from eating cookies, you will also enjoy a low fat dinner of lean protein and lots of vegetables.
Jenny Craig Diet - Jenny Craig uses celebrities to endorse their weight-loss program, which has made them a popular option. With Jenny Craig, you are given the option of purchasing pre-packaged food to lose weight. Different combinations of food are used for each meal, and dieters are allowed one or two snacks per day. There isn’t very much that is limited on this weight loss program, and although you don’t have to buy the food directly from Jenny Craig, it will make weight loss easier and it is encouraged.
Cabbage Soup Diet - If you are in need of a quick weight loss diet, the Cabbage Soup Diet may be for you. For one solid week, you eat from this batch of cabbage soup, which will help clean out your system and help you lose weight. A total weight loss of ten pounds or more is reported to be the norm with the Cabbage Soup Diet
The Right Diet For Your Body Type
Executive summary about body type diet by Robert Rister
Different body types require different weight loss strategies. By “type,” I mean not your blood type but your body type. Bodies can be classified as endomorph, ectomorph, and mesomorph.
For most of human history, the endomorph’s body type has been the type to have. Endomorphs retain fat. They tend to have large joints (”big bones”), a rounded body shape, and excess body fat. Endomorphs lose fat very slowly. Ectomorphs are at the opposite extreme. The ectomorph’s body type is skinny and bony. Ectomorphs tend to have a “fast metabolism” for their weight and have trouble gaining weight. Mesomorphs are the midrange of body types. Repeated loss and gain of body fat can cause lasting disturbances to the metabolism.
Ectomorphs respond best to brief, high intensity exercise. When ectomorphs skip meals, their metabolism tends to reset itself to “normal” speed. While the ectomorph is fasting, the body strips amino acids out of muscle to make glucose. Ectomorphs tend to burn carbohydrates. They tend to store fat. When they shift from a high-carb diet to a high-protein diet, their body fat increases.
The mesomorph has the basic body type of an Arnold Schwarzenegger, low body fat and massive muscles. Almost any kind of diet will help a mesomorph lose weight. We associate the endomorphic body type with excess fat, but this not an absolute. The body compensates by producing more insulin to move glucose into cells.
Unfortunately, insulin is 300 times more efficient at storing fat than it is at storing glucose.
Carbohydrate sensitivity and diabetes are the constant risk of the endomophic body type. High-carb diets pack on fat. Low-carb diets are beneficial for endomorphs, but endomorphs usually find it very hard to lose weight by diet alone.
