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Pritikin Diet
What is the Pritikin diet?
The Pritikin diet is named after its creator: Dr. Nathan Pritikin that created in the 80′s.
Initially used to treat heart disease, but when he saw that allowed to lose weight, began to be used also as a weight loss regimen.
Dr. Pritikin is author of “The Pritikin Principle, the calorie density solution (Pritikin Principle: the solution of the density of calories.) It explains the importance of basing food in natural products that have lower caloric density.
Pritkin diet is a diet that is based on the low consumption of fat and a diet rich in complex carbohydrates (75% -80%) and fibers. Read the rest of this entry »
Erroneous diets (I)
Every day, lots of wrong diets that are followed faithfully by many gullible and that not only do not produce an adequate weight loss, but can be harmful to health.
1. Diet Water
It consists of drinking only water and vitamins and mineral complexes. On this diet, glucose needed by the brain will be extracted glycogen (a type of carbohydrate) stored in the liver.
After the first days, the glycogen stores are depleted and the brain gets the 100 grams of glucose need per day from protein.
The muscles and other body obtain energy by burning fat in a process that generates acetone, a substance that removes the feeling of hunger.
The use of proteins, which are plastic material of the muscles and other parts of the body, makes them suffer a deterioration in structure and function, making them especially dangerous when it affects the heart muscle.
The basal metabolic rate, which would be our caloric needs if we were to no activity, is reduced and tend to decrease in physical activity. If it continues to insist on water diet, muscle failure risks, especially the heart, which can kill the patient.