As soon as September approaches and the return to the routine, many propose, once again, to go on a diet, lose weight after the typical summer excesses or, simply, eat healthier. It is a good time to remember that the best diet is not to diet as such, but to change your habits, for example hugging Mediterranean diet. It’s not just the healthiest, according to science, it’s also the polar opposite of those that experts strongly advise against.
Let us remember that together with mediterraneanare the diet DASH and the flexitarian diet those that obtain a better objective score in the classification of US News & World Report, prepared by a panel of medical experts and nutritionists, specializing in weight control, diabetes and cardiovascular health. Now, what are the worst diets that these experts totally discourage?
In the lowest area of the ranking, there are six that stand out for obtaining a worse score in terms of health in the short and long term, due to their difficulty in monitoring and adherence and promoting a healthy and sustainable life.
The least healthy and least effective diets
paleo or paeolithic diet
Its bases are to eat as our ancestors supposedly did in the Paleolithic, when they basically provided themselves with food through hunting and gathering. Therefore, they reject processed foods and prioritize undercooked animal proteins, with very few carbohydrates and practically no sweets, without legumes or cereals.
The paleo diet has positive aspects, but following it strictly and long-term is very difficult and can lead to nutritional deficits. His biggest problem is in the difficulties of maintaining its principles without affecting personal, family and social life, since its great advantages can be extrapolated to other types of more flexible and highly recommended diets, such as the Mediterranean itself, without having to completely renounce cereal hydrates or certain processed foods.
Keto or ketogenic diet
The very popular keto diet does not get a good score either, also because it is a similar case to the previous one. The ketogenic diet and the paleo diet have differences, the main one being the content of carbohydrates and processed foods, and that the keto diet focuses on promoting ketosis.
Thus, being very focused on this metabolic process, it forces us to carefully calculate the amount of carbohydrates we ingest, enhancing not only proteins, but also a high amount of fats. It is difficult to maintain it in the long term -and it is not usually recommended except in specific cases and under the control of a specialist-, and it can also cause risks for some people with certain pathologies.
Atkins diet
The Atkins is considered a miracle diet also focused on a rdrastic reduction of carbohydrates carbon. It is something like the predecessor of keto, and is named after American cardiologist Robert C. Atkins, who published the popular book ‘Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution’ in the 1970s.
Follow a method of several phases also looking for ketosis to empty glycogen stores and thus force the body to use fats as an energy source. It is an unbalanced diet that can cause deficits and metabolic problems, with a high intake of fat and protein. Her problems are similar to keto.
OPTAVIA Diet
This diet had a moment of hatching a few years ago, and it is still valid as a resource for some people who seek, above all, to lose weight. More than a food pattern, it is a specific program, since its name corresponds to the line of industrial productss produced and sold by the American company Medifast.
The OPTAVIA diet is based on restricting calories by reducing carbohydrates and increasing proteins, and all of this consuming the products of their kits, which have different prices depending on the model you decide to purchase. Each month of this diet costs about 265 eurosabout 300 dollars.
Obviously it is not a sustainable or balanced diet, it does not teach to change habits and seeks to create dependence to their products with somewhat complex programs to follow that can also generate an obsessive pattern.
Diet SlimFast
Its name already gives us a clue to its nature, very similar to OPTAVIA; and considered its predecessor or almost a pioneer in this sector. It is, again, the tradename from a brand of products that promise to lose weight in a short time (slimslim; fastfast).
Its line of foods are powders to make shakes, bars, cookies, snacks and other industrial products designed as replacements for one or more meals up to date. His plan is based on the 1-2-3 system: one “sensible” (fit) meal, two SlimFast substitutes, and three SlimFast snacks. The economic investment that must be made is high and can create nutritional deficits, in addition to causing a high rebound effectbecause what was lost is recovered as soon as you stop consuming its products, even gaining more weight.
Raw or raw vegan diet
The diet raw It corresponds to the so-called raw veganism, a food pattern that is based on nourishing yourself from vegetable and raw foods or subjected to a minimum temperature that hardly involves cooking or processing.
it’s a diet highly restrictivevery complex to follow or to create adherence, unbalanced and likely to cause severe nutritional deficits in the body, especially in terms of proteins, B vitamins such as B12, and essential minerals such as calcium.
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