Do Crazy Diets Work? Part 1
Cited: ABC News
Some of the most popular diets today are celebrity diets. However, celebrity diets are sometimes too good to be true. With Spring’s arrival and summer right around the corner, this means that the string bikini sitting in the back of your dresser drawer will be making an appearance soon.
For those fearing stepping out in swimwear, the allure of a quick fat-loss program or a celebrity diet can be too much to pass up. But the truth is that not all of them deliver the results they claim to.
Dr. Marc Lawrence, the self-proclaimed celebrity diet doctor, studied at Cornell Medical School and trained in emergency medicine at Stanford and general surgery at Harvard. On his Web site, celebritydietdoctor.com, he breaks down celebrity fad diets into fact and fiction.
“This is my way of reaching out to people,” Lawrence told ABCNews.com. “A lot of people are interested in celebrities and their nutrition, so I take that and I add real nutrition advice to the celebrity plans.”
Lawrence’s main advice when it comes to dieting is to go fresh and natural.
“The way to get healthy and lose weight is to eat unprocessed foods,” Lawrence said. “For example, take four ounces of corn straight from the cob. That is about 90 calories. Now mash them down into tortillas. Those are about 290 calories. Then dry those out and add sugar to make corn flakes, which are around 400 calories. Finally, press those out and add fats to get 600 calories worth of flavored corn chips. We have gone from 90 calories for four ounces of corn to 600 calories from 4 ounces of flavored corn chips.
“Everybody wants to be a part of the new diet craze,” Lawrence added. “Everybody wants the secret, but the real secret is staring them in the face from the produce aisle.”
Amanda Seyfried — The Raw Food Diet
In her new movie “Chloe,” Amanda Seyfried is looking better than ever. She openly credits the raw food diet for her figure.
The diet consists of eating only unprocessed and uncooked foods. The proponents of this diet believe that when food is cooked, enzymes that aid in digestion are destroyed and the positive nutritional effects of the food can be lessened. The diet includes lots of fruits, veggies and nuts, but it also can include sushi or homemade cheeses and yogurts. If you can hand-make it from raw parts, you can eat it.
Seyfried admitted in the April issue of Esquire magazine that the diet is working to keep her slim. Whether or not she enjoys the diet is another story.
“It’s intense. And sort of awful,” Seyfriend told Esquire. “Yesterday for lunch? Spinach. Just spinach, spinach and some seeds.”
But Seyfried suffers for her art.
“I have to stay in shape because I am an actress,” Seyfried told Glamour magazine last month. “It’s twisted, but I wouldn’t get the roles otherwise.”
In Lawrence’s opinion, the raw foods diet is the best way to lose weight.
“Raw food is a great diet,” Lawrence said. “If you are looking to lose weight, it is good to eat foods that are high in water content like vegetables. The raw food diet purports eating foods that are high in water, low in calories and high in nutrition. The reason we are fat is because we are eating processed foods, so a diet that says only eat unprocessed, natural foods is great.”
Jennifer Aniston — The Zone Diet
Remember when Aniston appeared on the cover of GQ wearing nothing but a necktie — at 40?
Even “over the hill,” Aniston is still looking fabulous. Recently, Gerard Butler, her co-star in “The Bounty Hunter,” said that Aniston “has the best legs in Hollywood.”
Aniston credits a mixture of the Zone Diet and regular exercise in the form of cardio and yoga for her figure.
In the GQ article, she said that by sticking to the Zone Diet, with occasional splurges, she keeps her body photo-spread ready.
The Zone Diet, created by Dr. Barry Sears, tells followers to eat a 40:30:30 ratio of carbs, proteins and fats.
Lawrence believes the zone diet is too high in proteins.
“You don’t need more than 10 percent of your diet to be proteins,” Lawrence said. “Bringing it up to 30 percent is unnecessary. There is also a big difference in plant-based proteins and animal-based proteins. The plant-based proteins like nuts and beans are superior to the animal-based proteins. It has been proven multiple times that cultures with high animal-based protein diets have an increased risk of heart disease.”
Kelly Osborne — The Bar Method
The chubby girl from reality TV’s “The Osbournes” is no more.
Kelly Osbourne, 25, was featured on the cover of Us Weekly last month for dropping more than 40 pounds. The starlet, whose parents are Ozzy and Sharon, has been dropping weight since appearing on last season’s “Dancing with the Stars.” Osbourne said she achieved her new figure by controlling her diet and using a dance-based exercise program called the bar method.
According to the Barmethod.com the routine is a mixture of ballet and Pilates. The workout “creates a uniquely lean, firm, sculpted body” by using “the body-elongating practice of dance conditioning.”
Lawrence said that the most important thing is to just get up and move.
“As far as exercise is concerned,” Lawrence said, “just walk. Find a way to fit walking into your lifestyle. Remember that you are never going to lose a lot of weight through exercise. You will lose the weight by changing your diet, but exercise is going to keep it off.”
Osbourne told Us Weekly that she used to weigh almost 160 pounds and despite being in and out of drug rehab three times, the weight was all that was talked about.
“I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict,” Osbourne told Us Weekly. “I will never understand that.”
Osbourne told Us Weekly that she does not call her weight loss plan a diet; she calls it “a commitment to a life change.” She tries to keep a very positive attitude when it comes to losing weight.
Continued in “Do Crazy Diets Work Part 2” with Kate Winslet
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My Take: I do not like the idea of everybody coming up with your own diet plan. Today people are so into this you can buy weight loss products just that anywhere. I mean, you can even buy colon cleansers at your local drugstore. You won’t lose weight to go see your doctor and follow your doctor’s instructions.
I had an aunt who was into every single fad diet that came along and she ended up with cancer of the abdomen. Needless to say, she died! If she would’ve just taken organic multivitamins and followed her doctor’s instructions, she might be alive today. I remember one of the things she was lacking was whey protein, strange which remember from childhood but someone who died.
Today’s society is so concerned about healthy bodies that it makes it difficult for those people who are obese. Someone who is overweight is very self-conscious. I know that you could ask of Pensacola plastic surgeon how they help someone who is overweight and they will tell you by removing the excess flesh or skin when they lose weight. I know someone who has lost a lot of weight will even get a Tallahassee FL face lift because they don’t want to look at their double chin anymore.
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