That's right. I am talking New Years resolutions. Weightloss or getting into shape seems be on or near the top of everyone's list for changes into a New Year. Achieving this change usually takes the form of diet or exercise. If you think I am kidding take a trip to your on stop shop destination and I bet you find that treadmills(or other exercise equipment) are strategically placed near your favorite goodies or near the entrances instead of their normal hiding place in the back of the store near the toys and bikes. Let me tell you they do their research on us. I have already made some mention of
Exercise vs Dieting in an earlier post. Not going to beat a dead horse. Lets talk trendy diets.
Atkins diet anyone?
If anyone is planning on dieting they should check out this
article posted in the
Journal of American Medical association comparing popular diets. It compared four popular diet programs : Atkins, Weightwatchers, Zone, and Ornish.
In a nutshell: All were equally good at reducing Cardiac risk factors. Now if pound loss is all you care about the diets after one year are:
- Zone
- Ornish
- Weight Watchers
- Atkins
Big thing on dieting pick a diet that you can stick with. One take home message from this study is close to half of the subjects in each group did not stick with each respective diet for the full year reporting time.
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