Well dear friends, there is a good news for you all. Today i am going to tell you the most easiest way to burn the fat and keep yourself healthy. I know that you work in office and due to your hectic schedules you don't have much time. Or you have to make your kids ready for school or house hold works to do. So, due to all of this you don't have much time not only 45 mins , you doesn't even have 30 mins for yourself. But you want to reduce fat so for that here i am going to tell you the most fastest way to fat burning , Cardioplast but remember this is level -1. So, you must practice thoroughly level -1 then we will take you to level -2.
But in level -1 after warm-up you have to do the exercise for 15 mins as per my instructions. You have to do it non stop, if you can't do it for 15 mins then you can begin with 10 mins. So, here we are beginning with warm up so that you can easily move to level -1. You must remember that we do warm up from head to toe. So, now will do with neck, front & back, shoulder rotations. Then complete hand rotations. Then after that waist bending, side bending front bending and back ward bending .. After that you have to start cardioblast. So for the next 15 mins you have to do these movement with variations which i will explain you in the level -1. I am going to tell you all the variations. It will include all the exercise so , within 15 mins you can do total fat burning exercise.
You can begin with 10 mins and can extend to 15 mins, as 15 mins is enough. You can do this along with this do back kick including jumping jacks on the sides you have to take your hands forward like this then again keep doing- keep doing. You can start with 10 mins non stop & then extend to 15 mins. And you can see that within 15 mins how much fat you will burn. Just take out 15 mins out of the whole day. So, this way continuously you have to jump in the variations told by me for 15 mins & keep burning your fat Yes, only 15 mins. You heard it absolutely right only 15 mins and you can be slim & attractive.
3 Foods That Could Be Causing You To Gain Fat Jennifer Bentley: I am Jennifer Bentley with insanehomefatloss.com and today I am going to talk about the three foods that people think are healthy that may be causing you to gain fat. Socking fact: 67% of US adults get their calories everyday from wheat, from corn, and from soy. Why? Because it s everywhere and it s very inexpensive and so manufacturers are putting it everywhere and you may not even be aware that you are eating it. You are eating it, I am eating it, we are all eating it. And it may be causing us to gain fat, and here is a couple of reasons why.
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So wheat in flour form it s brown, so it hits your blood stream faster, which means that you are going to have a blood sugar spike and then you are not going to feel very full for long, which may cause you to eat some more. Why are these foods unhealthy? Because they are everywhere and it s not a moderation, and in high-fructose corn syrup, there are high amounts of calories, carbs, and sugars. It s almost as bad as a raw sugarcane. They are found in simple foods that you might not even think about, for example, ketchup. I love ketchup, you love ketchup, a lot of American and other cultures enjoy their ketchup. However, there is some high-fructose corn syrup in there, high-fructose corn syrup.
Now soy proteins, compared to other proteins, such as meats and eggs and wherever else you are going to get your proteins from, nutritionally they don t have the same value. Also, soy protein contain xenoestrogens, which cause both men and women to gain fat, which again may not be what you are looking for. Obviously, if you are watching this video today, you are not looking to gain fat. What are good alternatives to these foods? For starches, sweet potatoes are fantastic, beans are fantastic, brown rice is actually a great alternative. If you eat fewer starches and you have replaced your corn, your wheat, and your soy products with healthy alternatives, you will lose weight a lot faster.
A lot of people sort of hyped it up as being some kind of magical dieting solution that everyone should be using. So today I want to give you the real facts about what intermittent fasting is and what it isn’t, so that you can decide for yourself if it’s right for you. So what intermittent fasting is; is that it’s one option out of many different options when it comes to laying out your calories and macros for the day. So we know that meal frequency is basically a non issue when it comes to fat loss, so in other words eating a larger meals less frequently or smaller meals more frequently that’s not going to affect your bottom line rate of fat loss, and so the basic goal of your fat loss diet should be to lay out your daily meals in whatever you personally prefer and in whatever way it feels best for you individually in terms of managing your hunger, maintaining you energy and focus, and sticking to your diet over the longer term.
For a certain percentage of people fasting for 16 hours and then eating two or three larger meals within an eight hour window, which is the most popular I.F. method, for certain percentages of people that is the most effective way of doing things. A lot of people find that they get more physical and mental satisfaction out of being able to sit down and enjoy those larger meals, and they also might find that there’s less margin for error because they’re not eating all throughout the day and so it was easier to not overboard on calories. So for a lot of people it’s just a good way of simplifying things and hitting their daily calories more easily.
But that’s really all intermittent fasting is, again it’s one possible option, one possible way of laying out your daily meals and it’s a way that a certain percentage of the population will prefer. Now, what intermittent fasting isn’t; is some sort of fail-proof way of eating that every single dieter will do better on and on top of that it doesn’t have any special fat burning effects in comparison to eating more frequently throughout the day. In other words, assuming that your calories and your macros are the same it’s not going to make any difference in terms of bottom line fat loss. Someone eating 2,000 calories on an intermittent fasting diet will ultimately lose fat at the same rate as someone eating 2,000 calories on six meals a day.
There actually is some data on this that I’ll link in the description box below, which looked at 40 different studies comparing an intermittent calorie deficit with a continuous calorie deficit, and the conclusion was basically that not only were the actual fiber-rating(?) results the same but the number of people who stuck with the diet versus how many dropped out, that was also the same. The reason why a lot of people swear by the intermittent fasting and say that they got better results with it, isn’t because I.F. itself burn fat faster but instead it’s because for a lot of people using the I.F. structure helps them stay on point with their daily calorie targets more effectively, which is a huge issue because most average dieters will tend to under-report their calorie intake by a pretty big margin.
So they lose fat faster simply because of better accuracy and better overall adherence, and that’s something that they might have been lacking when they were eating more frequent meals. As a final note, yes you will see plenty of client testimonials from people who promoted intermittent fasting, but you can very easily find testimonials for pretty much any type of diet and keep in mind that for every person who reports, you know, great results with intermittent fasting there’s also going to be plenty people out here, who you never hear from, who don’t get the results that they’re after. So it’s pretty easy to have those positive testimonials take out but there’s probably just as many people out there who tried intermittent fasting and didn’t like it but you just never hear from them. So what’s the bottom line here?
If you’ve tried dieting on a traditional structure of four to six meals spaced throughout the day and you have a hard time sticking with it or if you just want to give something different a try then, yeah, intermittent fasting is a perfectly reasonable option to try out, and a lot of people do prefer it and you might also. That said, it doesn’t have any magical fat burning effects and if you do just fine on a more traditional fat loss diet, don’t think that switching to I.F. is going to make any difference because it probably won’t. I personally have tried intermittent fasting. It wasn’t for me and I’ve gotten fairly lean and then just fine using the typical five meals spaced throughout a day. I personally always prefer eating breakfast and I like eating later at night too, and I don’t like training fasted and I also don’t like going long periods without eating.
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Hi. I'm Bex and welcome to part two in my series of You Have Four Minutes for Meditation. Today we're talking about meditation for weight loss. When it comes to junk we put in our bodies, we often think of junk food. But I would like to offer that we also have junk thoughts and junk speech that get in the way of us reaching our weight loss goals or our healthy living goals in general. So I'm going to give you a simple meditation, a little bit of a mantra type meditation that's going to help you focus for your entire day and hopefully keep you away from foods that aren't so good for you. Let's get started.
Go ahead and sit with your legs crossed or one foot in front of the other, whatever is comfortable for you. Today I want your hands upturned on your knees because we're going to be doing a simple exercise where we meet our first finger, then our middle, our ring and our pinky together. Sit up nice and tall by bringing your shoulders up over your hips and your chin parallel to the floor and close your eyes.
The concept of being healthy from the inside out is so important to me and I think that starting with our thoughts is a really good idea. Just like junk food, I call these junk thoughts. There are negative things that we tell ourselves that aren't necessarily true, that something is going to take too long or it's going to be too hard or it's going to be too difficult for us to overcome. You may feel overwhelmed.
So for our first action today, I would like us to practice telling ourselves to think positively. Bringing your first finger to your thumb, my, middle finger, thoughts, ring finger, are, pinky, positive. My thoughts are positive.
Inhale, my thoughts are positive. My thoughts are positive. Before thoughts become actions, they become words and we must be careful to not only speak kindly to others but just speak kindly about and to ourselves. Saying good things about our body, not saying we're fat, not saying we're lazy or that we're not strong enough. So bringing your pointer finger to your thumb and then going through all of your fingers. My words are kind. My words are kind. My words are kind.
Now our bodies truly are our temples. We must honor and respect them and when we have regard for our body, when we understand that it's something that takes us through our day, that provides us with children, with movement, with so many wonderful things, then we will honor it.
So when you start your day with a good exercise then maybe you will eat better throughout the day and today we're starting out with a healthy meditation and the four words are, "Eat with self-respect." Eat with self-respect. Eat with self-respect.
One last inhale to open your eyes and that's it. Just four minutes that we've spent telling ourselves good things, convincing ourselves that it's better to think positively, to speak kindly, and to always eat with self-respect. Remember that every bite that you take is a way that you honor yourself. So honor yourself with good and healthy foods. Love you guys. Let me know how it went and come back in a couple of days because I will have another meditation for you.
How to lose weight fast for teens .Teenagers have a lot of energy ,and can very easily lose a lot of weight in a relatively short period of time. Even though, teens are always surrounded by unhealthy food choices.In this video I will be sharing with you 7 steps for fast weight loss for teens.
1.Start eating breakfast. Some teens think skipping breakfast is a quick way to shed pounds. However, eating breakfast will jump start your metabolism and prevent overeating during the day. Chose a meal that has protein for staying power, such as an egg white omelette with mozzarella cheese, fruit and milk. High-fiber foods, such as whole wheat toast or whole wheat cereal are also good options.
2 Watching your drinks Too many sodas, juices and sports drinks can really add up. Replace them with water. You should have at least 8 glasses of water a day! Water rinses out unwanted toxins from your body and keeps your brain sharp. It keeps you hydrated.
3.Filling up on fruits and veggies Most fruits and vegetables are high in fiber and nutrients while low in calories. That means you'll fill up faster and eat less. Try having fruit as snacks or before meals to cut calories without feeling hungry.
4.Avoid fast food There's nothing wrong with having an occasional burger and fries, but avoid having those types of foods every day. Make them a treat that you only have every now and then.
5.Avoiding mindless snacking If you get hungry in the afternoon, keep your snacks healthy by avoiding candy, cookies, and other tempting sweets. Also, pay attention to other reasons you may eat, like being bored, tired, or feeling blue. Emotional eating only makes things worse and doesn't make your problems go away.
6.exercise every day Get at least 1 hour of exercise every day, even if it is just taking a long walk. Chose activities that you enjoy. An easy way to lose weight quickly and meet the daily physical activity requirement is by joining an after school athletic team. Basketball, tennis, track and other organized activities will assist in burning calories and losing weight quickly. Enlist your friends to join you on your journey to weight loss. If you're embarrassed about asking them to help you out, just ask if they want to go to the gym with you. And don't spend your days sitting on the couch watching TV! Fast weight loss will only be achieved with diet and exercise.
Green smoothie time, people! All right, to make a green smoothie it's simple. We know how to do that but this particular green smoothie is going to help us lose weight. This has some ingredients in here that are going to help your thermogenic, they're going to help improve our metabolism, bodies, just our natural ability to lose weight. We're going to start off with the fruit, okay? This is a honeydew melon and, you know, even the seeds are used.
These seeds are actually where our multivitamin supplements come from. Just crushed up seeds from melons and grapes and it's the second most nutritious fruit on the planet they say. Number one is po po. All these black seeds, okay. I'm going to throw that skin away. Now, some banana, some pear, some apple, an orange. And again I'm going to leave the white pith on, okay? The white pith is really high in a lot of minerals, a lot of fiber and things like that so I'm not going to cut it off. Leave it on, okay? A whole orange.
Now we're going to put in the dark leafy greens, we're going to turn it into the green smoothie now so baby spinach, kale, okay? Get it in there and that's, oh hang on some grapes. There you go, put them on top, some grapes. So that's our green smoothie, right? That's how you make a green smoothie. You put a combination of fruits and dark leafy greens in there and blend it up, okay? So green smoothies on their own will actually really help you with losing weight, okay?
When our bodies are given the right nutrition, we don't crave the fatty foods and the crappy foods and the processed foods, okay? So you get the right nutrition into your body and you start losing weight naturally. The other things that are really going to help boost this smoothie to help you lose some weight are these super foods I've got here. Particularly things like chia seeds, okay? These are really high in the good fats, omegas, that are going to help us remain full for longer. So some chia seeds. This is a weird one, powder. It's a superfood. We're going to put in half a teaspoon of that. Now cayenne pepper, OK? It's going to increase our bodies temperature and metabolism, this is really going to give it a big kick.
Now, I don't want to use too much but, you know, feel free to add in more chili if you want, that's just going to be half a teaspoon. Some honey, just a teaspoon, put that in there and some coconut oil, okay? Coconut oil, hemp oil, flax seed oil, all these natural oils are really good for us .
They say we can have up to three tablespoons of this a day and the fats are going to help all these sugars be processed in our bodies a lot slower. So instead of getting a big sugar rush, the fats slow down the absorption of the sugars into our body, so that's a good thing. So, this is how you strain it out. And a cup of ice. OK, we need ice. Gotta get the ice out of here. Whoop, there we go, that's good enough, and a cup of ice and blend it up for about 90 seconds.
All right, we're done. All right, it's our green smoothie. okay? Total nutrition in here, got the stems, the leave,s the piths, the cores. All the fiber in there, very nutritious for us, so it's going to stop us, you know, from craving all the crappy food out there. Then all the super foods that are in here that are naturally going to increase our metabolism and thermogenic ability in our body and balance our blood sugars with the cinnamon and everything. So, here goes.
All right guys, I'm back again making a green smoothie. This time we're going to make a bit more of an intermediate to advanced level green smoothie. All right, so it's going to be less fruit and more dark leafy greens, not vegetables.
We all want to lose fat and stay healthy. But with all these diet pills and plans, what does science have to say about weight loss tips? Let's get the obvious out of the way first. -Exercise- Not only does the physical active exercise burn calories immediately scientist recently found that it continues to burn fat while you sleep. During exercise your body uses up most of its available carbohydrates for energy and replaces them over the next 24 hours. In the mean time, it begins to break down your fat storage for basic functions such as walking, talking and even sleeping. Don't skip meals. Especially breakfast. We've explained in our last video the science behind appetite.
When you starve yourself, your body and brain create intense urges to eat high-calorie foods as opposed to healthy options. Breakfast specifically helps to keep blood sugar and hormone levels regular and gives your metabolism a boost to burn more calories through the day. Adding more protein and low fat dairy to your diet helps as well. Protein induces a large release of the chemical PYY, which goes to the brain and suppresses hunger signals. Simply adding 10% more protein to your food can keep you full much longer.
Low fat dairy on the other hand contains calcium which binds to other fats you've eaten and creates a soup like substance which can't be absorbed. Instead, your body excretes this soup and with it more of the fat you've consumed. Speaking of soup, it's perhaps one of the best kept diet secrets. When you drink a glass of water with your meal, the fluid is easily absorbed before your food is digestid which quickly brings down the stomach size making you feel hungry.
Take that same meal and puree it in a blender and the fluids have a much harder time being absorbed quickly this means your stomach stays expanded, making you feel full for longer. Count your calories. Studies show that people who actively document their food intake by using a journal have drastic improvements over those who don't. Furthermore, knowing a coffee has 10 calories but a cappuccino has 100, gives you the opportunity to structure your diet to eat more while taking less calories.
And while it may seem trivial, reducing your plate size can drastically change your food intake. Studies show that a simple change from 12 to 10 inches can reduce the amount of food you eat by up to 22%. Our bodies have a hard time turning down food in front of us even when we're full. So the less food on your plate the better. Finally, sleep and stress play a large factor in how much we eat. Both sleep deprivation and stress levels increase appetite, making it harder to keep off the pounds.
So if you burn that amount of flesh, and that sounds kind of, you know, weird, but if you were to convert that into energy, you would get about 3500 Calories, which is quite a lot of energy. That is me talking with Dr. Carson Chow, an M.I.T. trained physicist and mathematician and he is explaining to me why we should care how much energy fat has. In order for you to live and function, you need to burn energy to, like, keep your heart beating, all your organs going and just to move around.
But energy doesn’t come for free. So if you aren't consuming enough calories you are going to burn that energy with your own fat. So a lot of diet books like to teach this rule, but the problem is its wrong. Here is why. Let's say I eat 500 calories less a day. So after 1 week it would be 3,500 calories, and I would lose a pound, right? Because I'd have to burn it. Yeah, and if I stayed on this diet for a year I’d burn through 52 pounds. It'd be great! If you keep taking this thing, well, after 2 years I'd lose 104, and after 10 years I'd lose 500 pounds, you know? So obviously, at some point this rule is going to break down. It will actually break down before you get to a year.
So to understand the real math behind losing weight, Dr. Chow wanted me to imagine a leaky bucket. You have some water in the bucket and that's the amount of body fat or tissue in your body. And the leak represents the rate at which you are burning energy.
In reality what you are doing is adding water at the top, that's like eating food. And when you are in steady state the amount of water you add at the top exactly balances the amount of water you lose at the bottom. If you are pouring in more water than it is leaking then you are going to gain weight.
Now if you think about the physics of a leaky bucket, the more water you pour into the bucket the faster it's gonna leak. So the leak rate scales with how big you are. And this is a well-known fact, that the larger you are, the more energy you burn. You're going to burn more energy because it takes more energy just to move a larger mass.
You have more tissue and just to keep that tissue going it takes more energy. Congratulations. You have a new steady state. But lets say you don't want to stay this large person that you've become. Well, the opposite is true, as well. You can pour in a lot less water than you are leaking. But...
As you start to lose weight you start to get smaller and you burn less energy and you start to metabolically adapt to your new diet. And so you are never going to lose weight at one constant rate. It is always going to curve from one steady state down to another. Which means... When you go on a diet, the 3500 calorie rule is the wrong rule. There is a new rule. Wait for it...
The new rule is, for every ten calories you eat less, you lose a pound. But it will take you about 3 years or more to see the full affect of your diet, which is still pretty good. All you have to do is eat a hundred calories less, you lose ten pounds. That's like a can of Coke. So you should expect the diet to be extremely slow. Right, but nobody wants a slow diet. We all want to lose 20 pounds for this summer. What's wrong with just focusing on losing weight rapidly?
But the problem is once you are at this new weight they have to be vigilant for the rest of their life. Because losing weight is slow, gaining weight is also slow. But it slowly creeps up, and then two or three years later, bang, it hits them, and they're back up to where they were. So the mathematically approved rule for weight loss: for every 10 calories I don't eat a day I'll eventually lose one full pound. Which means changing your steady state is a marathon and not a sprint.
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My name is Larry Cook, and I am here to share with you that we can all be healthy. Now I understand that you might have a disease or you may have cancer, or you may be overweight, or you may have any other kind of health condition, but in reality, we can all be healthy, and the reason why we can all be healthy is because the body actually knows how to heal itself when given the right conditions. That's the most important thing of this entire video that I want you to know about. The body, when given the right conditions, can heal itself. Let's talk about conventional medicine. Conventional medicine is really a process of symptom management.
That means if you have some sort of a symptom, whatever that symptom might be, the western medicine medical model says OK, we've identified that symptom, now let's use a drug to manage that symptom. It's really a symptom management model. This is the most important thing of all. Western medicine is all about managing symptoms, but it doesn't actually get to the root cause of the problem or help the body heal. In fact, as you probably have seen on a gazillion TV ads now and every ad that's in a magazine, there are a million side effects associated with lots and lots of drugs and those side effects are not good for the body.
Then you might ask yourself, well why are there side effects? The side effects are there because what you're being given is a synthetic drug that's been patented so a company can make a lot of money from it, but it doesn't actually help your body heal, it just manages the symptom. If it helped your body heal, you wouldn't need that drug anymore. Hmm.
This is the key. It's not healing. In fact, when you hear the phrase, "There's no cure," or, "We're searching for a cure," or whatever, that's because drugs are never going to cure the problem. Drugs are designed to manage symptoms. Always. Let's go back to what I originally said. When given the right conditions, the body knows how to heal itself. This is the key. Let's jump over to alternative or natural medicine. Natural medicine says oh, you're exhibiting these symptoms, well let's figure out what the body is doing or not doing or not doing correctly that's causing these symptoms to manifest. Then once we've figured out what these different root causes of those symptoms are, we're going to give the body what it needs so it can get better. This happens all the time. You just don't hear about it.
You don't hear about it because the pharmaceutical industry pretty much advertises in the entire mainstream media, and so mainstream media makes a lot of money from the pharmaceutical industry, and no one wants to upset that apple cart, so you're not going to hear about it unless you do some research and you dig a little deeper and you ask a few questions and you visit a few natural doctors, and you start reading some books and you start reading some alternative websites, and pretty soon you're like, wait a second, you mean I have diabetes and I don't have to have diabetes?
You mean I have fibromyalgia and I don't have to have fibromyalgia? You mean I have some other, you name the disease, and I don't actually have to have that disease, I can actually get better? You should get outraged, and a lot of people are outraged. When they finally figure out that the body can heal when given the right conditions and that the western medical model is actually based on treating symptoms and not treating the root cause, it's a game changer. It's a complete game changer, so what have you learned in this video? You've learned that the western medical model treats symptoms with drugs because they're patented, which means the pharmaceutical industry will make a lot of money, and that when given the right conditions, the body can heal itself.
Those conditions might include changing your diet, taking some supplements, doing exercise, maybe doing hyperbaric oxygen therapy, maybe getting a Vitamin C nutritional IV, maybe doing something called hydrotherapy - hot/cold therapy - maybe doing a detoxification protocol.
When you put together all of these different things that you can do to give your body what it needs, including nutrition, nutritional supplements, all of a sudden the body goes hey, I have what I need, I'm going to heal. You know what that's called? That's called a cure. That is a cure. The body knows how to heal itself. What you want to do is live in a way where you are giving your body what it needs to do it's very best, and you want to make sure you don't give your body ...
You don't add to your body things that diminish health. When you consciously do that, that is called the Healthy Living Lifestyle, or also known as the Natural Living Lifestyle. It includes dietary change most often, it usually includes taking some supplements, it definitely includes exercise and exercising on a regular basis, it most likely includes seeing a natural doctor or a naturopathic doctor, an acupuncturist, a chiropractor, those specialists who actually get to the root cause of the problem. It may include doing a chi-building exercises like yoga, and it definitely will include detoxification, colon cleansing, getting rid of the toxins, because you know what?
Our society is extremely toxic, and when you start putting all of these toxins into your body, inadvertently, like you're not necessarily trying to do it but the body starts accumulating and accumulating and accumulating these toxins, if you don't get rid of them, you will have a degenerative disease sooner or later. Your body will start going downhill. You may need to do a detoxification program, but when you start doing all of these different things: you start deliberately eating food consciously, organic, whole, fresh food on a regular basis, you start taking some supplements that help support your body's function, you start exercising, you go see a natural doctor who can really figure out what's going on, and then from there, prescribe a protocol that will help your body heal even more. Wow, all of a sudden you don't have your disease any more. You've lost weight.
You have more energy. You're in vibrant health. That is why you want to adopt a healthy living lifestyle. Now there's a lot more I could say. What I'll say right now is that I have a lot of resources on my website. My new website larrydcook.com, you can go over there and take a look, I have a book, I have a DVD, I have healthy recipes, I offer coaching services, I have all kinds of resources for you that you can use to start adopting a healthy lifestyle. Some of them are free, some of them cost a little bit of money, but at the end of the day, if you start moving towards a healthy lifestyle, you will get better, I guarantee it.
If you want to lose weight, you eat more fat. And this isn't really that new. This dates back to at least 2007 as published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Let's have a look. So this is the famous A to Z Study. It's a 12 month randomized trial of 311 overweight or obese premenopausal non-diabetic women. And again, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. They looked at four different diets: the popular Atkins Diet, which is really low carb, the traditional American diet that we still hear recommendations for, which is a low-fat, high-carb diet. The Ornish Plan, which is a very high carbohydrate diet, and finally the Zone Diet, which is somewhat of a low-carbohydrate diet. But for our purposes in this video I'd like to just compare the Atkins Diet and the Ornish Diet, because they represent the extremes.
Atkins Diet gets 44 percent of it's calories from fat, as opposed to a much significant reduction of carbohydrates down to 34 percent. And that's just exactly opposite, pretty much, of what the Ornish plan recommends. As you will recall the Ornish Diet is one that's low in fat and high in carbs. So let's compare the Atkins program to the Ornish program in terms of what the Journal of the American Medical Association has to say.
Well the Atkins Diet gives you a lot more saturated fat in terms of grams per day: 27 versus 17 for the Ornish Diet. Now the body mass index on the Atkins diet went down by 1.65. That's a measurement basically of how fat you are. On the Ornish Diet, not anywhere near a significant reduction in comparison to the Atkins Diet. The percentage body fat down by about 3 percent eating more fat and half that amount on the Ornish plan.
Triglycerides, a powerful marker for risk for heart disease, reduced by close to 30 points by eating more fat on the Atkins program, and about half that on the Ornish program that tells you to go on a low-fat diet. HDL, or good cholesterol, increases on the Atkins Diet by about 5 points, no change on the low-fat Ornish program. LDL, or so called bad cholesterol, goes down on the Ornish program, for sure, and not much change on the Atkins program.
What about fasting glucose, which we know is significantly related to risks for Alzheimers Disease, down almost 2 points on the Atkins program, and down by about less than one point on Ornish. Blood pressure goes down significantly eating more fat, and even the bottom number, the diastolic, goes down significantly more eating more fat on the Atkins program. And as you see here, the Atkins program is a diet that favors much more fat and a significant reduction in carbohydrates, in comparison to what so called US experts recommend, which is a diet that is much higher in carbohydrates.
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and this dates back to 2007, the A to Z Trial clearly indicates that when we increase our consumption of good fats, and dramatically reduce our consumption of carbohydrates, a variety of cardiovascular risk factors improve in favor of the high-fat diet, and you'll even lose more weight.
With two thirds of Americans overweight or obese, it's no wonder one of our viewers wants to know, does a combination of apple cider vinegar, honey, and water promote fat burning and weight loss? Well, I'm sorry to say that there is no scientific evidence to support such a claim. The combination of apple cider vinegar, and honey, and water is an age-old elixir that's been touted as miraculous. That it can detoxify and help lose weight among other benefits.
But the evidence is not there. And your body doesn't need to be detoxed. We have organs that take care of that. So, don't worry about detoxing. When it comes to weight loss, the tried and true formula is reducing calories, increasing your exercise. That's what works. That's what gives lasting results. If you go on a diet that includes apple cider vinegar, honey, and water, chances are it's going to be a very low-calorie diet. And that's what causes the weight loss. But, very low calorie diets are hard to stick with.
Usually you come off of them and when you do, chances are that weight comes back. Sometimes comes back plus more weight. So, fad diets don't work. Stick with what you do know that works. And that's cutting calories. So, save your money. And if you wanna use apple cider vinegar, there's no harm in it unless you're taking large doses. It is an acid so it can burn your esophagus and your stomach, so be careful. It can also interact with medications. So, use it sparingly. Use it in cooking. And in cooking, use it to help you cut back on sodium, or sugar, or fats. Because it's got great flavor and it's wonderful in cooking. But, as a fad diet remedy, thumbs down.
