Sugar Busters Diet
The Sugar Busters Diet was originally developed in the '90s. This diet works in a very similar way to the popular 'Zone Diet'. The Sugar Busters Diet is not a low carb nor a high protein style diet. The Sugar Busters Diet recommends that daily calorie intake is split into a 40/30/30 ratio. However this ratio differs slightly from the Zone Diet as the Sugar Busters Diet plan recommends 40% fats, 30% proteins and 30% carbohydrate intake each day. Advantages of being on the Sugar Busters Diet include: Diet Eliminates Intake of Sugar Easy to do for the average user (no calorie counting, measuring or weighing) The Diet cuts out many Sugary Foods that are clearly not helpful for weight loss. (and for good dental care reasons) Disadvantages of the Sugar Busters
Victoza could be used to tackle severe obesity
Victoza has been on the market in Europe since last year. It's used to treat the early stages of type 2. Victoza has been so successful in reducing patients' weight that the company Novo Nordisk is considering testing whether Victoza could be used to treat severe obesity ? a condition often associated with diabetes. Novo is now deciding how to run final-stage trials to test whether Victoza could be used to treat obesity and using the drug for this application could still be five years away. But if successful, it could signal a move by Novo into prevention of diabetes as well as the treatment of a condition which currently affects about 285m people and is expected to affect 483m people by 2030.
Source: Telegraph.uk
Drinking water helps people lose weight and can silence people who say they can't lose weight
The researchers split a group of adults into two groups. Both consumed a low-calorie diet, but one also consumed two glasses of water before each meal. After 12 weeks, those who consumed water lost five pounds more than those who didn't. The researchers attribute the difference in weight loss to people feeling fuller by drinking water before eating. The researchers warn that while drinking water does have health benefits, consuming mass quantities also posses a health risk.
Source: Insurance Corner
Four people on rimonabant had killed themselves
A major trial linked the drug to a slightly higher suicide rate. The trial wasn't testing the drug's weight loss benefits, but whether it might prevent heart problems. It was supposed to follow more than 18,000 patients in 42 countries for three years. Roughly half were given rimonabant while the other half were given a placebo. European officials shut it down and pulled the drug from the market. It was never licensed in the United States, but was sold as Acomplia, Riobant, Slimona, as well as under other names in Europe. "Obviously the suicides are tragedies," said Eric Topol, director of Scripps Translational Science Institute and the study's lead author. "But we accept trade-offs in medicine and the psychiatric side effects might have been acceptable if we had found greater cardiovascular benefits later," he said.
He said rimonabant might still have been useful for fighting obesity, and that measures like stomach stapling surgeries also come with significant risk. Other experts disagreed. "Any mortality associated with cardiovascular preventive therapy is generally viewed as unacceptable," wrote Matthijs Boekholdt and Ron Peters of the department of cardiology in the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, in an accompanying commentary.
Source: MSNBC
Zeltiq: hottest new weight-loss procedure, freeze hard-to-shift flab to death
Zeltiq uses a cooling method called cryolipolysis to target, chill and break down fat cells. Experts are heralding the non-invasive procedure as a revolutionary new concept in weight loss. 'For years, we've been heating fat to melt it away,' says new York dermatologist Dr David Goldberg, who was involved in the clinical trials of Zeltiq. 'Now it appears that the opposite approach is more effective than other non-invasive procedures.' Tests have shown that just one treatment is capable of destroying up to 25 per cent of fat cells in the area. Source: DailyMail.
Diet include: This diet is not always recommended for Vegetarians (Largely based on the protein intake requirements.) Weight loss may be attributed to a general reduction in calories and not necessarily the 40/30/30 ratio. There can be a level of confusion when dieter needs to find out about 'Hidden Sugars' in some foods. The diet may (in certain cases) remove valuable minerals and nutrients. (This is because the diet limits some fruit and vegetables, which are essentially healthy) The diet does also encourage the consumption of a large quantity of proteins found in foods such as fish, nuts, and eggs. As these are three of the most commonly found allergy-related foods, it is important prior to be aware of any allergies you may have before commencing on this eating plan.
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