November 10th, 2008
Drink Caffeine Cautiously
How caffeine affects your weight loss can vary. Some people can continue to drink a couple of cups of coffee or a caffeinated beverage every day and have great success on a low-dieting weight-loss program. Others may find that it slows down progress.
Caffeine all by itself, even without cream and sugar, can stimulate the production of insulin because it can indirectly raise blood glucose levels by stimulating the release of glycogen stores. And, as stated previously, this can increase fat storage and thwart fat burning. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 26th, 2008
`How do I fry without fat?’ is one of the most common questions my patients ask me. Let me introduce you to the concept or dry-frying, which is used in many of the recipes. Dry-frying is a method of sautéing -rood without using oil or butter. There is no difference in the flavour or the final dish, although the preparation takes a little longer.
Hoff fill a teacup with boiling water and add a teaspoon of’ stock powder. Stir until dissolved, then fill the cup to the top with red or white wine - any cheap plonk will do! CIF you don’t drink alcohol, use apple juice instead.) Read the rest of this entry »
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September 26th, 2008
These tables, printed on the labels of many foods, offer consumers a quick and easy way of detecting fats in food, and are probably your most powerful tool in the quest for fat-free eating! Unfortunately, only some local manufacturers and two major supermarket chains (Woolworths and Pick ‘n Pay) include these tables on their products.
These tables usually show the nutritional breakdown of the food per 100 g of product, showing the proportion of carbohydrates, proteins, sugar, fats, and so on. For the purposes of the X Diet, you can ignore all the food groups except the fats. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 23rd, 2008
Imagine that your stomach is empty. You have not eaten during the night, and you are ready for breakfast. Your blood already has a certain concentration of sugar (glucose) flowing through it. This has an approximate value of 5. To simplify matters drastically, this means there are five ‘bits’ of sugar in each sample of blood, and that this concentration is constant throughout the body. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 17th, 2008
The discovery of leptin has prompted a gold rush of further hormone discovery around appetite. For instance, how does your body know when to stop eating because you are full up? An obvious mechanism is via nerves that run from the gut to the brain which are fired by physical distension of the gut — that too-stuffed-tomove feeling. The problem with this theory, although there are nerves that undoubtedly do this, is that a meal of boiled cabbage can still leave you feeling hungry, even though you feel completely bloated. Nor does putting 600 calories in through a line intravenously make you feel full the way that a 600-cal0rie Big Mac does. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 15th, 2008
A more efficient body
The real way to ‘cleanse’
I do not hold with fasts or ‘detoxifying’ diets. If you are feeling sluggish, run-down or ‘clogged up’, then the only way to remedy these sensations is to make your body work more quickly and more efficiently. Here are some tips:
- Try to empty your bowels at least twice a day. To do this, you need to eat large quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables. If you follow the X Diet to the letter, you will not have any difficulty achieving this goal! Read the rest of this entry »
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September 3rd, 2008
Consider your average working person: let us call her Samantha. She is in a rush to get to an early meeting, so she doesn’t have breakfast. She drives through the smog of the early rush-hour traffic, fretting about being late. When she’s finished the meeting, she rushes out to lunch. She orders a toasted sandwich with smoked salmon, and finishes off with filter coffee that has been brewing on the stove for many hours. She eats her meal sitting in the sun. Then it’s back to the office for more coffee as she frantically races against a deadline. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 1st, 2008
1 Cut out all fats
All plant fats and all animal fats should be eliminated from your diet. These include:
- Olive oil, sunflower oil, other plant oils, salad dressings, mayonnaise and salad creams.
- Avocados, coconut and coconut cream.
- Nuts and seeds of all kinds.
- Butter, margarine, cream, sour cream, full-cream and low-fat
- Milk, full-cream and low-fat yoghurt, coffee creamers and cheese. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 30th, 2008
This delicate and delicious soup combines leeks, asparagus, and parsley for a spring tonic cleansing soup. Serves 4.
1 small leek, sliced into thin crescents
1/2 cup shiitake mushrooms, sliced
1/2 cup carrots, sliced into 1/4-inch half moons 1-inch piece of fresh ginger root, thinly sliced Read the rest of this entry »
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August 29th, 2008
This delicate and delicious soup combines leeks, asparagus, and parsley for a spring tonic cleansing soup. Serves 4.
1 small leek, sliced into thin crescents
1/2 cup shiitake mushrooms, sliced
1/2 cup carrots, sliced into 1/4-inch half moons 1-inch piece of fresh ginger root, thinly sliced Read the rest of this entry »
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