To lose weight and keep in shape, many women
have studied themselves and believed in some strange diets.
Vegetarianism and health
Recently, Fit Suger, an American magazine
specialized in nutrition, has asked experts to analyze the truth of the 4
hottest diets in this country.
1. Vegan diet
Pure Vegetarianism usually “says no” to all
kinds of food originated from animal including meat, eggs, milk… Is it proper?
A research of American Journal of Nutrition
shows that vegetarians are often thinner and have lower risk of getting
diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer… because this diet includes
lots of fiber, fruits, vegetables, beans, and absolutely excludes meats.
Therefore, you can call this a healthy diet.
However, meat can be a part of a healthy
and science diet. Particularly, in a research performed by American Journal of
Nutrition in early 2012, scientists had applied a diet containing 150gr of beef
tenderloin every day instead of chicken or fish to the subjects participating
in the study. It’s surprising that their cholesterol ratio decreased by 10%.
This result shows that eating meat properly with the right portion and kind
will ensure you a completely healthy diet.
2. Gluten-free diet
Gluten is a kind of protein found in barley, wheat…
Gluten-free diet means that you reduce some
kinds of food such as bread, noodles, grain, and many other “noshes”. If you
have a trouble of not absorbing gluten, you should avoid this. However, are you
sure that this diet is right?
Gluten-free diet will help you lose weight.
However, according to a research of an American organization in 2012, this diet
may cause stomach ulcers due to the damaged immune system in the intestinal
mucosa and this will make your body absorb nutriments wrongly. In time, the
body will form a non-absorbent mechanism; and the worse is that gluten allergy
can cause some symptoms such as distention, chronic bloating, headaches and
fatigue. As a result, you will be leaner and your body will look like a sick
person with pale, fatigable skin and become lifeless.
3. Ancient diet
This diet is called like that because it is
based on the eating principles of our ancestors during hunting and gathering
period. Ancient diet means eating fresh foods, and the main kinds of eaten foods
are lean meat, fish, vegetables and fruits, no sugar, grain, milk, beans, and
pre-treated foods.
Vegetarians
are often thinner and have less risk of getting diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
In order to learn about this diet, a small
research of scientists from California university, San Francisco, discovers that
when a person change his diet from a normal one to ancient diet, after ten
days, the hypertension, blood fat of these people decrease dramatically and
insulin sensitivity is improved.
Previous research on 14 people also showed that while applying “ancient
people” diet within 3 weeks, they had lost 2,5kg. This result had clarified a
bigger principle that eating fresh foods without being pre-treated will help
you lose weight significantly.
4. Eat raw vegetables
Food experts advise that foods such as
beans, fruits, green vegetables and milk…are most nutritious when eaten raw. Of
course, you need to wash and peel…them.
To test this, a research of American
Journal of Nutrition in 2005 had analyzed the health signals of 200 people who
were applying the raw vegetable eating diet for 3.5 years. In general, these
people had low blood fat and low overall body fat. However, almost 40% of them
were lacking in vitamin B12, and nearly 50% of them had low good HDL
cholesterol.
Some vitamins such as vitamin C in
vegetables can be lost if you cook them. But cooking can also increase the
concentration of other vitamins. For examples, in tomatoes, lycopene will be released more if you
cook them instead of eating raw. In general, vegetables are good for diet
because they have lots of vitamins, minerals and calories whether you eat them
raw or cook.
