Written by Article by Chuimi Shatsang
Many people jump into low carb and low fat diet without knowing the pros and cons of the concept. They are just following because others are following. They don’t have the informed decision whether they would need low card and low fat diet to lose weight. Many more people are blindly following generalized diet plans without personalizing with their health and body type. With this article we want to bring in some light to low carb and low fat diet benefits and criticisms to help you make a better decision.
Low Carbs Diet
Low carbohydrate diet became popular in the late 1990s to early 2000s and is strongly associated with Atkins diet. With this theory high carbohydrate food intakes are limited and focus on foods with higher percentage of proteins and fats.
Apart from weight loss benefit associated with low carb diets some studies have found possible benefits with low carb diets to fight against diseases like diabetes, cancer, autism and epilepsy. Despite of its popularity for weight loss and other benefits, low carb diets theory is opposed by other researchers. They argue that getting energy from protein rather than carbohydrate cause liver damage and fats originated energy cause heart disease and other illness. On the other hand, advocates of low carb diets are to say that high proteins and fats diet has the same or slightly lower risk as compared to those on high carbs diet.
Low carbs diet is also criticized for reducing intakes of fruits and vegetables which provides our body with important nutrients. Low carbs diet is also known to have cause weakness and fatigue and cannot involve exercise schedule. But low carb dieters convinced that weakness occurs only during the first couple of days when our body adjusts with new diets, and also many vegetables can be accommodate with low carb diets. However, the debate is still on if low carb diets is a healthy solution to weight loss and overall physical fitness by avoiding fruits and grain products which is a common food.
Low Fat Diets
Low fat dieters believe that eating low fat especially saturated fat and cholesterol would help maintain an ideal body weight and prevent heart disease. It is also believed to help control blood cholesterol level and thus avoid blood related illness.
Another group of study points out that, fat especially dietary fat provides energy, essential fatty acids and vitamins like A,D,E and K which are vital for good health. They debate further that fatty meals make you feel fuller and takes longer time to digest, making us less hungry. Low fat meals have the opposite effect.
What is the Best Approach?
Advocates and critics of low carb and low fat diets have valid points and cannot simply dismiss one for the other. Perhaps, the most intelligent step towards a long term good health would be to maintain a balance method for any concept and individualizing before implementing any approach. Following a diet program because you see an advertisement everywhere or lots of people are following a diet program would not be a solution for long term health goal. You’ll be back to square one within no time or even worse.
What you need is a good knowledge and information before you jump into any concept or theory. A low cab and low fat diet can be helpful to achieve short term weight loss goal and be legitimate as well, but it may not be healthy to live on these diets for lifelong. It is a wrong concept to discard all fruits and vegetables as high carb foods though it is technically right and many of them can be incorporated with low carb diets. Not all fats are bad, some of them are essential for healthy life.
The point is, all carbs and fats are not bad for health, we need to make distinction between bad and good and make a better choice.
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Hi I am Chuimi Shatsang. I believe maintaining a healthy weight is a process of education, and we need sound guidance on strategies along with good knowledge to achieve it. Please visit http://www.secureweightlossproducts.com for more Free weight loss tips and information.
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