Choose The Right Diet For The Right Body

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oi-Staff

Monday, November 30, 2009, 13:56

Super diets like drinking large amounts of grapefruit juice or eating only raw fruits and vegetables are unhealthy and just food myths. People develop a 'quasi-religious' attitude what was the best thing to eat, based on little or no scientific evidence.

The grapefruit diet is based on the idea that an enzyme in the juice breaks down fat and the alkaline diet, which maintains the slightly alkaline nature of the blood by eating certain foods.

Food has been shrouded in myths and fairy tales since time immemorial. But what's important is to recognize that, despite the popularity of fad diets, we are losing a grip on the fight with obesity.

The grapefruit diet, is unlikely to have an effect because the enzyme would probably be broken down in the gut before being able to get at body fat. Experts also flagged up the lack of evidence for the 'chewing movement', which dates back to the 19th century and counsels chewing 32 times to aid digestion.

The idea behind breaking body fat is to resets the metabolic rate and there is some scientific reasons to back that up.