With the entire team of professionals behind them to always look perfect, it is very tempting to think that following the same diet as Jennifer Aniston, Kim Kardashian or Elsa Pataky we are going to look like them. However, what science has shown is that the key to diet success is customization. In other words, it must be appropriate to the characteristics of the person who puts it into practice, in such a way that it protects their health, respects their customs and preferences, and also favors long-term adherence.
If we follow the diet of a celebrity, even if we “adapt” some aspects to our personal tastes and needs, we can be forcing our body to an inadequate diet and even risky for your health. In addition, it will not produce a change in habits. It is for all these reasons that a non-individualized diet will hardly work for another person. Anyway, if you are curious about it, we will tell you what nutrition expert Gabriela Gottau has to say about the most famous diets of the celebrities.
Kim Kardashian’s Keto Diet
After her last pregnancy, Kim Kardashian lost 30 kilos with a keto or ketogenic diet, specifically with the Atkins diet. It is based on food very low in carbohydrates that is replaced with a higher protein intake. Thus, the diet is practically based on foods of animal origin and there is a great burning of fat.
Also, the keto seek satiety and this facilitates the achievement of a low-calorie diet that accentuates weight loss, as pointed out by a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Nevertheless, does not promote the adoption of good lifestyle habits due to the great restriction that it proposes by eliminating entire food groups.
Although the worst thing is that you can have side effects ranging from dizziness, nausea and bad breath to a drop in cognitive performance as US scientists concluded. Also, although it allows you to lose weight quickly, it can also produce a metabolic adaptation that, over time, favors the rebound effect.
Kate Hudson’s alkaline diet
Kate Hudson promotes the alkaline diet as the way to take care of the figure. According to her own statements, she describes her diet as: “Lactose-free, wheat-free, gluten-free, meat-free and sugar-free.” This diet is based on the idea that acid residues from meats, for example, and refined flours can harm health. Therefore, proposes to eat practically foods of plant origin, especially legumes, fruits and vegetables.
Adequate consumption of fruits and vegetables can benefit health and be helpful when losing weight, however, research published in 2013 indicates that it cannot be verified that the ingestion of foods with acidic residues harms the organism, but on the contrary, it can be a very limited diet. Likewise, scientists from Canada conclude that there is not enough evidence that the alkaline diet produces benefits for the body’s health and can lead to a restrictive diet that, far from helping, harms the metabolism and puts the body at risk of deficiencies by eliminating entire groups of food.
Jessica Biel’s Paleo Diet
Actress Jessica Biel crafts the Paleodoieta, which works imitating the diet that our ancestors had in the paleolithic. In other words, it is made up of a variety of fresh foods such as fish, various meats, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, and a few legumes. It is a diet in which proteins and fiber predominate, so it fills you up easily, while reducing the intake of carbohydrates, something that favors weight loss.
This type of diet can be very beneficial to take care of health, starting from significant improvements at the intestinal level, as well as advantages when suffering from type 1 diabetes or other autoimmune diseases. However, there are extreme Paleo diets that eliminate large food groups and that can put our health at risk.
In addition, a diet equal to that of our ancestors would be almost impossible to comply with today and may not be adequate to favor a positive change of habits. If we find ourselves forbidding everyday foods, we can alter our eating behavior, as well as suffer more desires to eat what we shouldn’t. It is best to adapt the bases of the Paleo Diet to the present, always consulting with a health professional that allows us to access a personalized strategy.
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Macrobiotic Diet
Gwyneth Paltrow has long followed a macrobiotic diet, in which foods are divided into two categories: Yin and Yang, the former being natural and the latter being those we should avoid. It is a diet with very rare foods and everything indicates that Gwyneth eats little throughout the day.
This type of diet usually limits the intake of large food groups such as some vegetables, dairy products, meats and refined flours as well as sugars and alcohol. It aims to bring us closer to a diet that is as natural as possiblerestricting the intake of processed, salty foods and even herbs and spices that can offer benefits to the body.
It is a diet that tends to veganism, especially in its most extreme forms, so, without adequate planning, it can promote deficiencies calcium and vitamin Dsomething that would reduce bone mineral density and increase the risk of fractures, as pointed out by a study presented in Amsterdam, as well as promote vitamin B 12 deficiency, which could be the cause of anemia.
Jennifer Aniston’s Zone Diet
According to Jennifer Aniston, a lot of how her figure looks is due to the zone diet, in which carbohydrate sources are reduced and the percentage of protein is increased. Fruits and vegetables are the basis of this diet, followed by protein sources such as fish, eggs and dairy products and, lastly, cereals, legumes and derivatives.
This diet that induces an increase in protein and fat intakeit does not become ketogenic, but it can also lead to wrong positions such as the demonization of carbohydrates.
Furthermore, a study published in Nutrition Research showed that the Zone diet does not offer additional advantages over other diets with the same caloric intake, so their proposal would be without scientific basis and once again, depersonalized.
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