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Nutrition
and Balanced Diet
Make Dieting a Thing of the
Past - Eat Right & You Won't
Need to
Lose Weight in the First
Place.
Nutrition and balanced diets
make dieting a thing of the
past. The problem is when
dieting programs ignore the
absolute benefits of a
nutritious plan, and develop
one that actually can cause
you to become malnourished.
This is unfortunate...malnourishment
is your ticket to remaining
overweight.
Malnourishment from a
dieting program also places
you at risk for weight
regain. This occurs when you
re-gain the lost
weight from dieting. Once
this happens, you're at high
risk for weight cycling.
Lose weight...Gain it back...Lose it again...Gain it back again
...that's weight cycling. It
can place you at greater
risk for disease than
obesity itself. And this is
why practicing the concept
of Balanced Nutrition
is so important to your
success.
Table of Contents
When dieting to lose weight, most people start off
malnourished and end up
suffering from weight
re-gain; the immediate
weight gain experienced
after dieting.
Starved for micronutrients
(vitamins and minerals), you
over-eat unhealthy foods in
order to correct the
deficiency in
micronutrients.
Most popular diets overlook
the importance of proper
nutrition and never correct
your micronutrient
deficiency…making it even
harder for you to lose
weight. Lacking proper
nutrition, it’s definitely
not worth your time.
Proper nutrition normalizes
eating behaviors and
prevents weight re-gain. Add
a once-a-day vitamin &
mineral supplement to your
diet before trying to lose
weight. This is a critical
step in preparing for
healthy weight loss.
With nutrition as your
focus, the other benefits of
weight loss will follow.
This brings us to a second
concept of...
A diet is considered "balanced" when all food groups are
represented in healthy
proportions or percentages.
This means following the
recommended daily allowances
for micronutrients and for
macronutrients—fats,
carbohydrates, and proteins.
Nutrition and Balanced Diets
are often difficult to
understand, let alone
practice. Yet, they are so
important to your success.
Unfortunately, it's very
hard to find dieting
programs that center on
balanced diets. That's
because most programs want
you to lose weight fast. As
consumers of weight loss
products, we all want fast
results.
But fast results come at the
expense of nutrition and
balanced diets.
Dieting Programs that
center on nutrition and
balanced diets produce
lasting success for dieters
at rates 5-10x programs that
don't.
Programs that neglect
nutrition fail!
The web is literally riddled
with good intensions,
especially when it comes to
weight loss. Most diet
programs don't realize the
importance of proper
nutrition and balanced
diets.
Here's a question recently
posted by a first time
dieter: "Why do diets fail?"
This is a question that
really sparked our interest.
With the help of several
professionals, weight loss
studies published by The
National Institute of Health
(NIH), were reviewed.
One thing was consistently
identified from searching
several popular diets. This
one thing is so important
that if it's absent from a
dieting plan you're
guaranteed to fail.
The one thing common to
diets that fail?
Lack of Balanced Nutrition
It serves no purpose, and
may even be harmful, to
start a diet that's not
nutritious. You will starve
for certain nutrients and
overeat to get the nutrients
you need.
And what do you over-eat?
The same nutrient poor foods
that caused the problem in
the first place!
Proper nutrition and a
balanced diet are essential
to your success. This is
what you need to do...
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Undergo a nutritional
assessment. Do this
before you begin to lose
weight.
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Correct any nutrient
deficiency (low levels
of vitamins or minerals)
by taking a complete
once-a-day supplement.
Finding a dieting program
centered on balanced
nutrition is like
finding a diamond in the
rough. Can you totally
forget about fast results?
If so, I found a
diamond in the rough
just for you.
There's a lot more to learn
about nutrition and balanced
diets. The links below
should fill in the gaps...
Dieting good foods to eat
- our extensive list of good
diet foods.
How to Pick a Diet that is
Nutritious
Nutrition Information -
Help finding accurate diet
and nutrition information.
And for eating a balanced
nutritious diet, click on
the links below:
Personalized weight loss
plans
Weight Loss Preparation.
Have you ever prepared for
weight loss? Do you need
help preparing to lose
weight? Sign up for a free
Weight Loss Bootcamp.
The seven day e-course is
designed to prepare your
body and your mind for
healthy weight loss.
Traditional mediterranean
diets promote the use of
nutritious, natural foods.
In clincial studies, the
diets have been shown to
slow the aging process and
decrease the risk for
developing heart disease and
certain cancers.
For a
copy of mediterranean diet,
and more information about
why this diet works, follow
this link.
Additional information on
the
traditional mediterranean
diet.
They are balanced diets
that center on nutrition.
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Food Essentials
Food essentials for
nutrition and balanced
diets.
Learn about the essential nature of food.
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The Proper Diet
What makes up a proper
diet and how this can
help you choose a diet
for losing weight.
Avoid major pitfalls and read
How to Pick a Diet.
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The New Food Pyramid
A comparison of the old
pyramid system with the
new one.
Take a look at the old
Guide to Food Pyramids
and see if any of it rings a
bell. The
New Food Guide Pyramid
uses color codes to make it
easy to understand and
follow.
Check it out at The New U.S Food Pyramid using the links
below.
You will need the
Adobe PDF Reader, a free
download from Adobe.
Use this link for the
My Pyramid HTML Versions.
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