October 12, 2007, Newsletter Issue #85: Plateau on South Beach Diet

Tip of the Week

The South Beach Diet is the lost moderate of all recent fad diets. One of the most attractive (and fulfilled) claims the SBD author Dr. Agatson made was "the belly fat goes first". Why? Because this diet works mainly by removing all bad carbohydrates from your menu and those bad or refined carbohydrates cause the so called "apple" shape body type when most of the fat concentrates around the middle. This belly fat Dr. Schwarzbein (The Schwarzbein Principle diet) called "insulinometer" because this fat goes insulin resistant first. Remove the bad carbs and "insulinometer" reacts first making the belly fat go.



But most people have another fat, which is evenly spread all around the body under the skin. This fat isn't that sensitive to the bad carbs, it is rather calorie-sensitive. Strict low carb, higher-fat diets insure lower calorie intake by lowering appetite but not the South Beach, which limits fat intake while allowing more carbs than the body can automatically handle. At this points, calorie intake is necessary and this is a weak point of any diet.



There's lots of anecdotal evidence that people stalled on diets that don't emphasize high enough fat intake, succeeded on higher-fat diets, for example, see bantadiet.com

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