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Wanna lose weight? Go for good carbs
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December 29, 2010, Wednesday
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IF living without pasta and bread, or giving up cheese and bacon make losing weight difficult, a latest diet book may provide some incentive to drop that added holiday weight.
Instead of deprivation, restricting food groups or counting calories, a new weight loss plan offers a different approach to slimming without feeling hungry.
"It's really a diet that brings food back on to the plate that people thought they were not allowed to eat," said Ellen Kunes, the editor-in-chief of Health magazine and a co-author with dietician and nutrition expert Frances Largeman-Roth of "The CarbLovers Diet."
Unlike other weight-loss plans that restrict carbohydrates, at least initially, the core of the CarbLovers diet is carbs and resistant starch, an ingredient in bananas, oatmeal, beans and lentils, wholegrain pasta, barley, brown rice, peas, polenta, potato chips and rye and pumpernickel bread - foods the authors have dubbed "carbstars."
"It acts like a fiber in the body and it does not get absorbed in the small intestine, and also at the same time it triggers fat-burning enzymes and helps to feel fuller," Kunes explained about resistant starch.
The 28-day diet includes a kickstart phase with carb-filled recipes totaling 1,200 calories a day, followed by a 21-day immersion plan during which foods such as steak, french toast and chocolates are reintroduced.
Followers of the diet lost up to six pounds (2.7 kilograms) in the first week and 50 pounds over five months, according to the authors. "The best thing you can do is to incorporate good carbs back on to your plate and that is the secret to losing weight and keeping it off," said Kunes.
Instead of deprivation, restricting food groups or counting calories, a new weight loss plan offers a different approach to slimming without feeling hungry.
"It's really a diet that brings food back on to the plate that people thought they were not allowed to eat," said Ellen Kunes, the editor-in-chief of Health magazine and a co-author with dietician and nutrition expert Frances Largeman-Roth of "The CarbLovers Diet."
Unlike other weight-loss plans that restrict carbohydrates, at least initially, the core of the CarbLovers diet is carbs and resistant starch, an ingredient in bananas, oatmeal, beans and lentils, wholegrain pasta, barley, brown rice, peas, polenta, potato chips and rye and pumpernickel bread - foods the authors have dubbed "carbstars."
"It acts like a fiber in the body and it does not get absorbed in the small intestine, and also at the same time it triggers fat-burning enzymes and helps to feel fuller," Kunes explained about resistant starch.
The 28-day diet includes a kickstart phase with carb-filled recipes totaling 1,200 calories a day, followed by a 21-day immersion plan during which foods such as steak, french toast and chocolates are reintroduced.
Followers of the diet lost up to six pounds (2.7 kilograms) in the first week and 50 pounds over five months, according to the authors. "The best thing you can do is to incorporate good carbs back on to your plate and that is the secret to losing weight and keeping it off," said Kunes.
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