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The Atkins Diet
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The Atkins Diet caused quite a stir in the diet world when it first came out. The first book published by Dr. Robert Atkins was published in 1972 and was entitled "Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution." It advocated a completely different approach to weight loss. Rather than advocating the avoidance of meats and fats, the Atkins Diet promoted eating meats and fats lots and lots of meats, meat products, and fats while avoiding such things as fruits and vegetables. The idea flew in the face of accepted diet concepts of the time.
But the Atkins Diet was popular. It was popular because it worked. People could eat a lot and still lose weight. It was a dieter's dream come true for a while. Well-known doctors began to publish papers about the dangers of the Atkins Diet. They said that it would promote high cholesterol and high blood pressure followed closely by strokes, heart disease, and death.
The battle raged on! It's been raging on for the last three decades.
The American Heart Association still doesn't think much of the Atkins Diet. In 2006 a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine said that "women reduced heart disease risk by eating more protein and fat from vegetable sources." The conclusion was that the Atkins Diet and others like it were detrimental to women's health.
Those who rage against the Atkins Diet say that the initial weight loss produced when a person starts the Atkins Diet is a diet phenomenon that is common to all weight loss diets and means nothing.
Most people (especially those who have never actually read one of Dr. Atkins's books) think that going on the Atkins Diet gives them license to gorge themselves on red meat and fat. This assumption is NOT correct.
Collette Heimowitz, the director of research and education for Atkins Nutritionals, has said, "The media and opponents of Atkins often sensationalize and simplify the diet as the all-the-steak-you-can-eat diet. This has never been true."
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BONUS : The Balanced Body Pilates Miracle
A balanced body Pilates workout is ideal for general strengthening and achieving better overall balance. Pilates is known for its benefits when it comes to balance and coordination. There are several reasons why a balanced body Pilates workout helps with these key areas.
Joseph Pilates designed the exercises after studying dancers. And who has more grace and balance than a dancer? A dancers movements are always controlled and strong by their very nature, so Pilates movements that mimic some dancers moves offer those same qualities.
To give you a balanced body, Pilates designed the Reformer. The Reformer is also known as the Pilates machine, a machine designed to reform your body and your muscles. This machine is a precision instrument compete with straps, pulleys, springs and a sliding platform that helps you achieve balance and strength.
A Pilates machine uses your own body weight as resistance. Many pieces of exercise equipment are made this way today, but theyve taken their cues from the Pilates Reformer, as it was the first with that innovative and effective design.
To help you achieve a balanced body, Pilates doesnt just provide a workout; it ensures that muscles are worked at every angle and with every inch of movement. You wont just get the benefit, for example, of a bicep curl that works the bicep muscle alone. In a movement like that, theres just as much resistance coming out of the curl so that the opposite muscle is worked equally.
This method of resistance that targets both the flex and the relax movements makes it possible to get an excellent workout in fewer moves with more benefits, and unlike using free weights or doing other types of exercises, it allows you to achieve a balanced body. Pilates also achieves balance, not just in the size and shape of your muscles by toning them evenly, but it gives you more balance.
Because of the nature of the Pilates movements, people who do it regularly find that their general balance improves. The focus on the core musclesthe muscles in the abdomen and lower backhelps give overall body strength and balance.
This balance isnt just achieved and used while doing Pilates workouts, either. Most people report that they feel more balance and strength while going about their everyday activities. When the core muscles are strong, they support the spine and back, and can make every movement easier and more balanced.
Along with a balanced body, these exercises can also help you achieve a balanced mind. Like yoga, Pilates seems to work best when its done consciously, with awareness. Each movement should be focused on and done with a deliberate intensity. Theres also a focus on breathing, just like in yoga, that helps with the workouts.
These conscious movements and stress on breathing at the right times, deeply and evenly, make it a very meditative exercise. So not only will you get a balanced body, Pilates can help you to achieve a calm and balanced mind, and help to ease stress.
A balanced body Pilates workout is ideal for general strengthening and achieving better overall balance. Pilates is known for its benefits when it comes to balance and coordination. There are several reasons why a balanced body Pilates workout helps with these key areas.
Joseph Pilates designed the exercises after studying dancers. And who has more grace and balance than a dancer? A dancers movements are always controlled and strong by their very nature, so Pilates movements that mimic some dancers moves offer those same qualities.
To give you a balanced body, Pilates designed the Reformer. The Reformer is also known as the Pilates machine, a machine designed to reform your body and your muscles. This machine is a precision instrument compete with straps, pulleys, springs and a sliding platform that helps you achieve balance and strength.
A Pilates machine uses your own body weight as resistance. Many pieces of exercise equipment are made this way today, but theyve taken their cues from the Pilates Reformer, as it was the first with that innovative and effective design.
To help you achieve a balanced body, Pilates doesnt just provide a workout; it ensures that muscles are worked at every angle and with every inch of movement. You wont just get the benefit, for example, of a bicep curl that works the bicep muscle alone. In a movement like that, theres just as much resistance coming out of the curl so that the opposite muscle is worked equally.
This method of resistance that targets both the flex and the relax movements makes it possible to get an excellent workout in fewer moves with more benefits, and unlike using free weights or doing other types of exercises, it allows you to achieve a balanced body. Pilates also achieves balance, not just in the size and shape of your muscles by toning them evenly, but it gives you more balance.
Because of the nature of the Pilates movements, people who do it regularly find that their general balance improves. The focus on the core musclesthe muscles in the abdomen and lower backhelps give overall body strength and balance.
This balance isnt just achieved and used while doing Pilates workouts, either. Most people report that they feel more balance and strength while going about their everyday activities. When the core muscles are strong, they support the spine and back, and can make every movement easier and more balanced.
Along with a balanced body, these exercises can also help you achieve a balanced mind. Like yoga, Pilates seems to work best when its done consciously, with awareness. Each movement should be focused on and done with a deliberate intensity. Theres also a focus on breathing, just like in yoga, that helps with the workouts.
These conscious movements and stress on breathing at the right times, deeply and evenly, make it a very meditative exercise. So not only will you get a balanced body, Pilates can help you to achieve a calm and balanced mind, and help to ease stress.
