I just read a fascinating article in "Bottom Line Personal." It posited that one could lose, and keep off, weight by essentially having dinner at breakfast, and breakfast at dinner. (Lunch would be basically neutral, with just enough food to slake hunger.)
The theory is that, due to inactivity in the evening, the body cannot process a large dinner, converting much of it to fat.
The piece was very convincing to me, and I might give it a try.
Dinner at breakfast sounds quite revolting.
Actually, the best recommendation is to eat small meals throughout the day, and lay off of snacks in the evening.
The Reverse Diet: Lose All the Weight You Want by Reversing Your Meals
by Tricia Cunningham and Heidi Skolnik, MS, CDN, FACSM
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper." That popular saying goes to the heart of this amazingly effective new diet plan, which has people eat dinner foods for breakfast and breakfast foods for dinner--or choose their own menus from the approved food list. Dieters don't have to stress over counting calories or feel deprived at all--just reverse the order of their meals and watch the pounds drop away.
Tricia Cunningham developed the Reverse Diet, went on to lose over 170 pounds, and has maintained her weight-loss for over seven years. In The Reverse Diet book, Tricia and nutritionist Heidi Skolnik explain why the diet works--and how it also improves metabolism, body composition, and energy and promotes better health.
To help people get started on the diet, the authors provide numerous delicious meal plans and recipes, along with motivation, tips, and support. For people who are tired of diets that restrict favorite foods or require complicated meal planning, the Reverse Diet is just what they need--a program that's easy to understand, easy to stick to, and remarkably effective at promoting weight loss for life.
--reversedietsolution.com
RULE:
Eat less and move more....
cicerone imposter wrote:Actually, the best recommendation is to eat small meals throughout the day, and lay off of snacks in the evening.
For example: Sumo wrestlers eat once a day, this maximizes weight gain.
Miller wrote:RULE:
Eat less and move more....
And people think weight loss is complicated.....go figure.
i have a copy of a german postcard (ca. 1900) portraying one PETER VARADY , a hungarian KOLOSSALMENSCH (a large guy
) who weighed in at 416 pounds , had a chest measurement of 216 cm and travelled with a circus - i guess a fair number of people easily outstrip that weight today .
hbg
And...the data from the above study was posted elsewhere on this site.
The study didn't differentiate, between routine, urgent and critical/emergency vists and as a result is worthless.
Top number : 65%...Australia
Bottom number: 35%...Canada
Nonsense!
Basically, the professor at UCLA was cheap and wanted good health coverage but at a cheap price. I hope he's modified his policy.
Krugman is a syndicated columnist. This was taken from the NYTs.
Miller wrote:
Source of article?
Advocate wrote:Krugman is a syndicated columnist. This was taken from the NYTs.
What Miller certainly knows.
Miller wrote:Top number : 65%...Australia
Bottom number: 35%...Canada
Nonsense!
You ridicule away the numbers you disagree on yet you want a source for the article Advocate wrote? You do this very often actually, instead of bringing evidence to counter an argument you simply state that it is false, and it simply doesn't hold water in a debate. If you want to be taken seriously you at the very least need to keep the same standard of evidence that the other debaters keep.
Miller rarely, if ever, presents evidence for her claims. Her questions are so ridiculous, I let her questions stay unanswered, because most people with sense knows how ridiculous her questions are.
It's interesting that there's an article in this morning's San Jose Merc about "Universal coverage goal needs local help." To summarize, our county has cut the number of uninsured children from 70,000 in 1997 to about 11,000 today at a cost of about $11 million to have 100 percent coverage. What Miller fails to understand is that the majority of people, both democrats and republicans, by a majority of about 80 percent believes this is the right thing to do.
Miller also fails to understand the relationship between good health and school success; she doesn't give a hang about the future of our children and the economy, because she already has hers. Small minds always misses the big picture.
U.S. life span shorter
August 11, 2007 05:08:02 PM PST
Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries.
For decades, the United States has been slipping in international rankings of life expectancy, as other countries improve health care, nutrition and lifestyles.
Countries that surpass the U.S. include Japan and most of Europe, as well as Jordan, Guam and the Cayman Islands.
"Something's wrong here when one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends the most on health care, is not able to keep up with other countries," said Dr. Christopher Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
Haha, miller. You're grand.
