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The South Beach diet is a famous feeding program that emphasizes the consumption of fats and carbohydrates adequate, giving who follows the diet, a feeling of fullness, achieving lost weight of between four and six kilos in two weeks.
The South Beach diet was created by Dr. Arthur Agatson, a recognized cardiology that thought in a diet safe and effective for losing weight. This diet works in phases, the first two are limited to a specific period and the third to be adopted as a way of life.
The advantages offered by the South Beach diet are several, among them unconcern total by the counting calories, the size of the portions and a sense of dissatisfaction, coming from the restrictions that make other allowances to the time to consume food of good taste. In the South Beach diet are also permitted two entremeses, that as the main meals, are based on simple advice but that can be adjusted to the cravings that arise every day.
The phases of the South Beach diet starting with the exclusion of carbohydrates, i.e. that all foods that do not belong to this group can be consumed in normal portions. The duration of this stage is two weeks. It recommends eating lean meat in all kinds, also will allow plants with a low glycemic index, cheeses low fat, dried fruit and eggs. For this period is expected a loss of between four and five kilos. Read the rest of this entry »