For convalescents, soups are a favourite food. They are quick to prepare, packed with nutrients and help to rehydrate the body. Include soup on your day-after menu. Read the rest of this entry »
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If you can face it, a full-protein breakfast — eggs, bacon, sausages, hash browns and the like— is a tried and tested hangover cure that many hangover sufferers swear by. Read the rest of this entry »
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Into this category falls the flesh of any living animal — meat, chicken, fish and shellfish. Or, as the late Linda McCartney, an ardent vegetarian, once put it, ‘anything with a face’.
I have not complicated matters by including eggsand legumesin this food group, although these certainly do contain protein. Once again, bear in mind that these classifications are specifically tailored to the diet.
Proteins are the building blocks of muscles. There should always be small amounts of proteins in your bloodstream, because your muscles may need them in order to build themselves up if the need so arises. I number among my patients a variety of very active sports people, all of whom wish to build up their bodies and increase their muscle mass. They worry that this diet doesn’t provide enough protein for body building and bulking. Read the rest of this entry »
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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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`Why, for so many years,’ I hear you ask, ‘have I been told that too much sugar and carbohydrates make you fat?’ This is a reasonable question, given the huge proliferation of fad diets over the last few decades.
There are two answers. First, in years gone by, foods were not considered interesting enough to warrant in-depth research, so many diets involved plain guess-work. Second, those responsible for formulating traditional calorie-cutting diets noticed that people who ate a lot of carbohydrates got fatter. It was thus quite logical to assume that carbohydrates were the culprits. Read the rest of this entry »
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As I reveal this information, I can imagine women readers squirming uneasily at the mention of building muscle. Rest assured that when I speak of muscle building by eating carbohydrates I do not mean muscle bulking. Even if you were to eat two whole loaves of bread a day, you would not turn into the Incredible Hulk. It’s entirely feasible that a man will become more impressively muscular on such a regime, but a woman will not. Read the rest of this entry »
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Imagine it’s now late afternoon and you haven’t eaten for quite a while. You decide, this time, to eat a low-GI food (a reminder: these are foods that have low scores on the Glycaemic Index, because they dissolve into their component sugars much more slowly than high-GI foods).
You decide to eat a plain bowl of pasta. Pasta cooked for a short time (say 10 minutes) has a GI of about 45, which is very low indeed. Because the carbohydrates in pasta break down into sugars very slowly, the sugar is released bit by bit into the blood over a long period of time. The blood sugar therefore rises gradually, say to 6. It certainly doesn’t shoot straight up to 10, as would be the case if you had eaten a slice of bread or a baked potato. Read the rest of this entry »
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How much water you need to drink every day depends on your individual metabolism and on your weight. Here is a handy formula for working out your estimated needs:
Take your body weight, round it off upwards to the nearest 10, divide by 10 and then add 2. This is the number of glasses (250 ml) of water you need to drink every day.
If, for example, you weigh 79 kg, you should drink ten glasses of water a day (80/10 +2 = 10). This is the amount of water you need to drink on an average day, but if you are exercising, you will need to add at least another three glasses of water. Read the rest of this entry »
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A complication of this upset liver function is the production of more cholesterol-related triglycerides and sex hormones. In men, the levels of the sex hormone testosterone can begin to rise. Apart from many other important functions, testosterone controls the distribution of fat on the male body. Any extra fat that a drinker consumes (and it’s usually a lot) will be directed straight to the gut area, rather than spread evenly over the body, as would happen in a man with normal testosterone levels. Another function of excess testosterone is to speed up hair loss. This may give you a large fright, but the more alcohol you drink, the higher the risk of losing your hair more quickly! Read the rest of this entry »
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Let me let you in on a couple of very sobering physiological truths. Here are some facts about alcohol that may come as a surprise:
Our bodies possess a huge and magnificent factory called the liver. When we don’t eat for a while and our blood-sugar levels become depleted, we begin to feel rather lightheaded. The liver, when it realises that there is a problem, is able to make its own sugar by drawing on any resources of the body it so chooses. It can draw fat from the body or proteins from muscles, and in an intricate cycle it uses these ‘raw materials’ to produce more sugar for the blood. This cycle is known as endogenous gluconeogenesis. Endogenous means ‘from our bodies’ (as opposed to from our diets), gluco means ‘sugar‘ and neogenesis means ‘making new’. Read the rest of this entry »
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11 Eat high-GI carbohydrates to build muscle and speed metabolism
High-GI foods are those that dissolve into their component sugars fast. If your aim is to build muscle bulk and to speed your metabolism, eat plenty of high-GI carbohydrates, such as bread, potatoes, sugar, honey and cereals.
12 Eat low-GI foods to burn fat
If your main aim is to burn fat, eat plenty of low-GI carbohydrates. These are carbohydrates that dissolve slowly in the gut, releasing sugar into the blood.. stream gradually. They include beans, sweetcorn, white rice, pasta, lentils, barley, soya beans, soya mince, peas, fructose and oat bran. If you would like to speed up your metabolism at the same time, include some high-GI foodsin your diet. Read the rest of this entry »
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