Diets explained – The pros and cons of every possible diet plan
There are more diets and styles of eating out there than is imaginable. Year after year new diets sweep into the market place. I have written this article to give you a better understanding of how, why and when diets will or will not work for your body.
Definition of a diet ‘working’
Many people say that a diet worked for them. What this means varies for each person. It may be they lost a few pounds or felt more energetic.
My definition of a diet working is a long term and maintained improvement in health symptoms with accompanying weight loss (or gain) if needed.
My viewpoint is losing half a stone to find you have put it on again 6 months later is not a sign of a diet working. Neither is losing 4 pounds but still suffering many negative health traits such like frequent illness, rashes, digestive pains, low energy etc.
Types of diets
I have tried to classify the major diets here but there are endless variations both within the main ones and the main types of diets. So some of the information may vary but it should suffice to give you an idea of what is happening nutritionally.
Jump straight to a diet:
Atkins, Metabolic typing diet, Healthy eating, Following food cravings, Junk food diet,
Average Western diet, Juicing diet, Blood type diet, Blood analysis diet, Glycemic index, Glycemic load diet, Food combination, Mediterranean diet, South beach diet, Low fat diets , Weight watchers, Zone diet.
Metabolic typing diet
Uses physical, dietary and psychological traits to classify the body along fundamental systems. This allows the specific foods and nutrients to be discovered for that individual person.
Pros – Accurately determines nutritional requirement and is specific to your own body chemistry. It allows for individuals to change nutritional requirements during their lifetime as seen in the real world. Encompasses a large variation in recommendations for different people which parallels what is seen in the reality. Head and shoulders above any other nutrition system and its scientific basis and results cannot be argued.
Cons – Can be complicated and difficult to understand if following on your own and you need to use a trained advisor to get a level of analysis powerful enough to create long lasting changes
Metabolic typing explained
Atkins diet
Requires the person to eat greater amounts of protein through meats and to use fat liberally. Suggests obtaining carbohydrate intake from vegetables, seeds, nuts and berries. The overall effect is a high protein, high fat and low carob diet.
Pros – Suggests removing grains from the diet which can benefit most people. It ensures you obtain adequate amounts of fat soluble vitamins and promotes consuming organic foods and vegetables. Will work for certain people short term but very few on a long term basis.
Cons – It does not account for the fact that people vary greatly and a low carbohydrate intake, especially to this extent, can be disastrous. It does not separate different form of meat and vegetables. It does not allow people to change nutritional needs over their lifetime
Low fat diet / Calories restriction
Many combinations of diet follow this theme, with the main emphasis on low fat, higher carbohydrates and controlled calories. Founded from mis-interpreted fat studies in the 1950’s. Forms the basis of Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and many more diets.
Pros – Can work for some extreme metabolic types. Any recommendation to reduce trans-fats is beneficial.
Cons – Disastrous for the vast majority of the population as depletes fat soluble nutrients and increases hunger. It does not allow for individual variance between people or for changes in nutritional needs over your lifetime.
‘Healthy eating diets’
As recommended by the government food pyramid and all general healthy eating guides. Is also incorporated into the popular diet schemes e.g. Weight Watchers etc
Has an emphasis on lower fat and higher carbohydrates and obtaining fruit and Vegetable in good amounts.
Pros – Any diet with emphasis on increasing vegetable intake will improve many peoples health. Eating lower fat and higher carbohydrate will work for some people’s body chemistry.
Cons – Does not separate out individual differences in food requirements, meaning such recommendations can be disastrous for many people. The advice does not cater for changes in nutritional requirements during your lifetime. Grain consumption is also linked to the majority of present day health issues and thus would not be good advice, except for certain people’s body chemistry.
Following your food cravings
Many people say their body knows best and thus it is only right to follow what it wants.
Pros – Works well if you are very in tune with your body and accurately following a metabolic typing diet and so would know that you are obtaining your exact nutritional needs.
Cons – Food is addictive chemically and emotionally and in 99% of cases food cravings are confused and nothing to do with nutritional needs. For example your body will crave a cigarette
if you have a few, but that does not mean it is needed. The more sugar or bread you eat the more you crave them also. Food cravings also drop back to your dominant gland and thus can lead to exhaustion if the stimulating foods are over consumed.
Junk food diet
Eating whatever food comes your way and not caring what it is.
Pros – None
Cons – Decreased health across the board
Average western diet
The average western diet is somewhere between a healthy eating diet, a junk food diet and following your foods cravings.
Pros – Very few benefits
Cons – Any possible benefits of a ‘healthy eating’ diet are usually off set by the Junk food or reliance on food cravings. This eating style is much worse for certain body chemistries than others.
Juicing diet.
Using a juicer to make any number of juices and smoothies.
Pros – Can obtain significant amounts of nutrients if done correctly
Cons – Normally lacks fat and protein amounts for good health. Reliance on fruit juice can be troublesome for many people. Does not account for the different nutritional qualities of fruits and vegetables, grouping them all together as good. Whether a food is ‘good’ is dependent on your
body chemistry.
South beach diet
The book recommends very little in reality but for removal of heavily processed foods and avoiding certain carbohydrates which stimulate insulin production. It is a mix of Atkins diet and the Mediterranean diet with far less restrictions
Pros – Recommends reducing processed foods which is of benefit to anyone as is controlling certain insulin rising foods
Cons – Doesn't account for individual differences and allows people too many foods that will be wrong for certain body chemistries. Sold 5 million copies but also holds the title as the having the most money spent on the marketing of any diet book.
Blood type diet
This bases food recommendations on your blood type which is said to indicate your genetic needs from our ancestors.
Pros – Acknowledges the fact we all have different nutritionally needs and focuses on whole foods.
Cons – Recommendations have no bearing on the person’s nutritional needs with the majority of his evidence criticized. Does not account for actual differences seen in the real world or changes during your life.
Blood analysis and diet recommendations
Food recommendations are based on results from your blood test.
Pros – Acknowledges the fact we all have different nutritional needs, and uses analysis to make recommendations.
Cons – Only uses a blood test to give recommendations. Blood is just one systemic level within the body. Put simply because you have high or low levels in the blood does not indicate whether you have high or low levels in the cells where it is needed.
Food combination / variation diets
Based on the fact that different foods secrete different enzymes which can upset digestion. Advises not combining certain food groups
Pros – Can help people's digestion if it is already severely weakened.
Cons – Can be dreadful nutritionally as the body needs protein, carbs and fat at each meal. Does not address the cause of poor digestion or identify different nutritional needs between individuals
Zone diet
Advocates a diet of 40% protein and 30% carbs and 30% fat.
Pros – Excellent for a proportion of the population
Cons – Does not work for the majority of people who's nutritional requirement varies from the recommendations.
Mediterranean diet
Based on what is commonly consumed in the south of Europe. The emphasis is on consuming unsaturated fats and carbohydrates.
Pros – Can work well for certain people.
Cons – Does not account for the variability between different people’s body chemistry.
Glycemic index (GI) / glycemic load (GL) diets
Makes nutritional recommendations based on the ability of the food to raise or lower insulin within the body (glycemic index/load).
Pros – Aims to reduce the glycemic foods you consume which will benefit almost everyone.
Cons – GI is only one minor factor amongst other variables and thus should not be used to determine what to eat. Does not account for individual difference in food requirements or the other contributions and factors in nutrition.
The most effective diet you can do is the metabolic typing diet, read more here>> If you would like to discover more about the right diet for you my on line nutrition and metabolic typing course or you can work with me face to face through Personal training London (Clapham).
Ben Wilson BSc (Hons) CSCS NSCA-CPT CMTA EFT Dip
On line metabolic typing, fitness training and emotional freedom technique (EFT)
Personal training London (Clapham)
Rugby fitness training information and coaching
Friday, 8 February 2008
Periodization - The key to long term exercise success
Periodization
Periodization is the key to exercise and used by every professional athlete the world over. Yet almost no one outside of this circle has heard of it. The science of periodization was developed in the USSR and former eastern block countries as a system to design exercise and training programmes for their athletes.
The principles are based on the fundamental way that the body responds to exercise. The majority of my work is in personal training in London (Clapham). Most my personal training clients are not athletes but as we all respond similarly to exercise, the principles must be used for everyone's training programmes and not just that of the elite athletes.
The need for periodization
If you are some one who has embarked on an exercise routine and really enjoyed it at first, then found that you became bored with it and simply stopped doing it, or have been training hard but stopped making improvements, you have been a participant in an example of how the theory of adaptation works, and this was the very reason Periodization was designed.
Periodization is the all encompassing theory of how to combine the theory of adaptation, progressive overload, diminishing returns, rest and recovery, into one.What it means for you is, if applied correctly, you will make the greatest gains ever that you have had from the gym, while enjoying it, staying clear from injury and keeping fresh mentally and physically. Before looking at the theory, lets quickly examine the principles behind exercise.
Theory of adaptation
This states that when a new exercise stimulus is given to the body e.g. going for a 10 minute jog, doing level 7 instead of 4, lifting 60 kg etc the body is shocked by what it experiences and reacts by improving itself so it can cope with the stimulus if it is encountered again in the future.
The body changes the physical ability that was stressed during the exercise e.g. in response to jogging, increases occur in aerobic power; through lifting an 80kg weight, the body adapts by increasing strength and muscle size.
This response to exercise is the underlying theory used in designing exercise programs. Once the body has become accustomed to the stimulus, it no longer increases the physical ability in response to that exercise routine. It is said to have reached a plateau.
This is an undesirable stage as your fitness attributes are no longer improving despite your efforts e.g. even though it hurts to do the exercise you still end up lifting the same weight, or completing the run in the same time.
It happens because the body feels it can handle the exercise stimulus.It is at this point you will become bored with the training routine and at a future point along the curve you will either stop doing your exercise (if you do not love exercise) or carry on but make few improvements
Progressive Overload
To avoid reaching a plateau, a technique called progressive overload is used. The theory works by continually giving the body a progressively more difficult and challenging exercise stimulus. The more demanding stimulus makes the body continually respond by increasing the attributes stressed.
The difficulty is increased through alterations of the training variables within an exercise program, e.g. increasing the weight, decreasing rest, increasing number of repetitions etc.Periodization techniquesPeriodization is the theory and principles of how to structure your training programme so improvements are made month to month and year to year while avoiding over-training and injuries.
The theory sees the year being divided up into different periods of time (phases) where unique training routines can be used that are different from one phase to the next. This ensures the principles outlined above can be adhered to.
The basic principles are very simple to use. Professional athletes may use a highly sophisticated form but everyone should be using it to some degree. There are different levels that you can apply to your training programmes.
Phases
Under periodization your year is divided into phases. Each phase has a different focus and training programme to achieve. As well as these, planned periods of rest are also incorporated, these can be timed to coincide with holidays, work demands and more. Using phases during the training year is the key to getting the most out of your exercise routine.
Training Variables
This relates to the way you change the actual variable of how you do your exercise routine. These refer to the amount of exercise you perform (volume), the difficulty of exercise you perform, compared to your maximum (intensity), the type of exercise you do (specificity) and rest taken (density).
Each of these variables can be applied to the four areas of exercise, aerobic, resistance, core and flexibility training.
For example, imagine a resistance exercise, you could do:
2 sets of 15 reps (volume) using 10 KG (intensity) with 30 seconds rest (density) of a squat exercise. (Specificity)
or could change to:
2 sets of 5 reps (less volume), with weight 25kg (higher intensity) with 1 minute rest (lower density) of the squat exercise (same specificity).
Please do not be confused by this, the main point is that changing what you do in the exercise is the most important thing in fitness training. When even the basic principles are grasped it will revolutionize your training programme.
Periodization is the key element to teaching exercise. For effective results it must be backed up with correct nutrition, for this you should use metabolic typing
Ben Wilson BSc (Hons) CSCS NSCA-CPT CMTA EFT Dip
On line metabolic typing, fitness training and emotional freedom technique (EFT)
Personal training London (Clapham)
Rugby fitness training information and coaching
Periodization is the key to exercise and used by every professional athlete the world over. Yet almost no one outside of this circle has heard of it. The science of periodization was developed in the USSR and former eastern block countries as a system to design exercise and training programmes for their athletes.
The principles are based on the fundamental way that the body responds to exercise. The majority of my work is in personal training in London (Clapham). Most my personal training clients are not athletes but as we all respond similarly to exercise, the principles must be used for everyone's training programmes and not just that of the elite athletes.
The need for periodization
If you are some one who has embarked on an exercise routine and really enjoyed it at first, then found that you became bored with it and simply stopped doing it, or have been training hard but stopped making improvements, you have been a participant in an example of how the theory of adaptation works, and this was the very reason Periodization was designed.
Periodization is the all encompassing theory of how to combine the theory of adaptation, progressive overload, diminishing returns, rest and recovery, into one.What it means for you is, if applied correctly, you will make the greatest gains ever that you have had from the gym, while enjoying it, staying clear from injury and keeping fresh mentally and physically. Before looking at the theory, lets quickly examine the principles behind exercise.
Theory of adaptation
This states that when a new exercise stimulus is given to the body e.g. going for a 10 minute jog, doing level 7 instead of 4, lifting 60 kg etc the body is shocked by what it experiences and reacts by improving itself so it can cope with the stimulus if it is encountered again in the future.
The body changes the physical ability that was stressed during the exercise e.g. in response to jogging, increases occur in aerobic power; through lifting an 80kg weight, the body adapts by increasing strength and muscle size.
This response to exercise is the underlying theory used in designing exercise programs. Once the body has become accustomed to the stimulus, it no longer increases the physical ability in response to that exercise routine. It is said to have reached a plateau.
This is an undesirable stage as your fitness attributes are no longer improving despite your efforts e.g. even though it hurts to do the exercise you still end up lifting the same weight, or completing the run in the same time.
It happens because the body feels it can handle the exercise stimulus.It is at this point you will become bored with the training routine and at a future point along the curve you will either stop doing your exercise (if you do not love exercise) or carry on but make few improvements
Progressive Overload
To avoid reaching a plateau, a technique called progressive overload is used. The theory works by continually giving the body a progressively more difficult and challenging exercise stimulus. The more demanding stimulus makes the body continually respond by increasing the attributes stressed.
The difficulty is increased through alterations of the training variables within an exercise program, e.g. increasing the weight, decreasing rest, increasing number of repetitions etc.Periodization techniquesPeriodization is the theory and principles of how to structure your training programme so improvements are made month to month and year to year while avoiding over-training and injuries.
The theory sees the year being divided up into different periods of time (phases) where unique training routines can be used that are different from one phase to the next. This ensures the principles outlined above can be adhered to.
The basic principles are very simple to use. Professional athletes may use a highly sophisticated form but everyone should be using it to some degree. There are different levels that you can apply to your training programmes.
Phases
Under periodization your year is divided into phases. Each phase has a different focus and training programme to achieve. As well as these, planned periods of rest are also incorporated, these can be timed to coincide with holidays, work demands and more. Using phases during the training year is the key to getting the most out of your exercise routine.
Training Variables
This relates to the way you change the actual variable of how you do your exercise routine. These refer to the amount of exercise you perform (volume), the difficulty of exercise you perform, compared to your maximum (intensity), the type of exercise you do (specificity) and rest taken (density).
Each of these variables can be applied to the four areas of exercise, aerobic, resistance, core and flexibility training.
For example, imagine a resistance exercise, you could do:
2 sets of 15 reps (volume) using 10 KG (intensity) with 30 seconds rest (density) of a squat exercise. (Specificity)
or could change to:
2 sets of 5 reps (less volume), with weight 25kg (higher intensity) with 1 minute rest (lower density) of the squat exercise (same specificity).
Please do not be confused by this, the main point is that changing what you do in the exercise is the most important thing in fitness training. When even the basic principles are grasped it will revolutionize your training programme.
Periodization is the key element to teaching exercise. For effective results it must be backed up with correct nutrition, for this you should use metabolic typing
Ben Wilson BSc (Hons) CSCS NSCA-CPT CMTA EFT Dip
On line metabolic typing, fitness training and emotional freedom technique (EFT)
Personal training London (Clapham)
Rugby fitness training information and coaching
Four key areas of exercise
The four key areas of exercise
If you already follow an exercise routine or you are about to embark upon a new one; to ensure it’s success you must include the four key elements that come under the term ‘exercise’. Each of which play a vital and essential role on your health.
Cardiovascular (aerobic) training.
This refers to repetitive movements performed over an extended period of time, such as running, walking, rowing, cycling. Such exercises cause an increase in heart and lung activity.
The result is improvement in the whole cardiovascular system which expresses itself as an increase in our fitness, energy levels and the overall health of the body. The key element of aerobic exercise is ensuring your are getting at least slightly out of breath and varying the training programme to ensure you continue getting fitter. Performing aerobic exercise uses up calories and can positively aid fat loss, if done as part of a complete exercise and lifestyle programme.
It can be described as performing a movement between 1 – 20 repetitions, so that fatigue is induced. These exercises can use body weight e.g. press-ups, squats, dumbbells and weights machines. The benefit of such training is improved muscle tone in women, increased muscle size in men and positive effects on bone density. An unpublicized benefit is its long term effect on increasing your metabolic rate (the number of calories burnt per day). This corresponds to the amount of muscle tone you have. Through effective resistance training we can also improve our functionality allowing us to stay active whatever age we are.
Flexibility training.
This refers to the different types of stretching and is a key element in both preventing and rehabilitation after injury. It also plays an important role in creating good health by removing toxins from the body. When you are flexible you are much more likely to want to be active. Staying injury free not only makes you more functional, but also allows you to be more productive when exercising. Flexibility comprises static stretching, the traditional holding movements as seen in yoga, when cooling down etc and active flexibility, which is controlled movements to loosen up the body and increase muscle length.
This is the strengthening of the muscles that support the spine. A type of resistance training, it is classified on it’s own due to its importance to your overall health. A strong core is the basis of strength within the body. It allows optimal movement patterns to be used which prevents injury and promotes well-being. It is essential to ensure that the core muscles are both working correctly and then ensuring they are strong.
To optimize your health you need to be doing all of these exercise types every week. It does not require vast amounts of time, nor much in the way of equipment. Ask yourself how your exercise routine is set out at the moment. If you are just beginning on a routine, maybe start with one training type at a time and introduce the others as soon as possible.
If you would like to discover more about Exercise then consider my on line Exercise and metabolic typing course or you can work with me face to face through Personal training London (Clapham).
EFT - Emotional freedom technique theory
Emotional freedom technique (EFT)
Emotional freedom technique is a psychological form of acupuncture. It is used to neutralize negative emotions associated around a thought. This is done by tapping certain acupuncture points with your fingers while tuning into a specific thought.
This simple process removes negative emotions around a thought. This process has been shown to help with behaviour change, phobias, physical pain and emotional issues. Often EFT produces results in just minutes which is one of the reasons it is the fastest growing branch of psychology today.
History of emotional freedom technique(EFT)
It was discovered in 1980 when Dr Roger Callaghan was treating his patient for an intense water phobia. She complained in that session of stomach pain so he told her to tap under her eye as knew the energy meridian of the stomach ended here (from acupuncture theory) and to his surprise the ladies fear of water disappeared.
From that point on he began studying this phenomenon and went on to create a new branch of therapy called energy psychology. A student of Dr Callaghan, Gary Craig, a Stamford engineer trained under him and then advanced the theory and made it accessible to all by creating emotional freedom technique (EFT).
What is the theory behind it?
The premise of the theory is summed up by its discovery statement:
“The cause of all negative or unwanted emotion is a disruption to the body’s electrical energy system”
This is inherently different to the way traditional psychology would view emotions, they would see it as:
Distressing memory ................... Negative emotion
Emotional freedom technique would say there is an intermediate step:
Distressing ........ Disrupted electrical ........ Negative emotion
memory pattern
To dissolve the negative emotion associated with the memory you do not need to treat your memory, but instead re-align the energy pattern associated with that memory.
How do you re-align the energy around a distressing memory?
To realign the disrupted energy you need to simply tap (with your fingers) on some of the key acupuncture points. The key to success is discovering what exact thoughts and different aspects to these thoughts to tap on. Even with this element almost anyone can harness some benefits EFT has to offer.
Emotional freedom technique is a psychological form of acupuncture. It is used to neutralize negative emotions associated around a thought. This is done by tapping certain acupuncture points with your fingers while tuning into a specific thought.
This simple process removes negative emotions around a thought. This process has been shown to help with behaviour change, phobias, physical pain and emotional issues. Often EFT produces results in just minutes which is one of the reasons it is the fastest growing branch of psychology today.
History of emotional freedom technique(EFT)
It was discovered in 1980 when Dr Roger Callaghan was treating his patient for an intense water phobia. She complained in that session of stomach pain so he told her to tap under her eye as knew the energy meridian of the stomach ended here (from acupuncture theory) and to his surprise the ladies fear of water disappeared.
From that point on he began studying this phenomenon and went on to create a new branch of therapy called energy psychology. A student of Dr Callaghan, Gary Craig, a Stamford engineer trained under him and then advanced the theory and made it accessible to all by creating emotional freedom technique (EFT).
What is the theory behind it?
The premise of the theory is summed up by its discovery statement:
“The cause of all negative or unwanted emotion is a disruption to the body’s electrical energy system”
This is inherently different to the way traditional psychology would view emotions, they would see it as:
Distressing memory ................... Negative emotion
Emotional freedom technique would say there is an intermediate step:
Distressing ........ Disrupted electrical ........ Negative emotion
memory pattern
To dissolve the negative emotion associated with the memory you do not need to treat your memory, but instead re-align the energy pattern associated with that memory.
How do you re-align the energy around a distressing memory?
To realign the disrupted energy you need to simply tap (with your fingers) on some of the key acupuncture points. The key to success is discovering what exact thoughts and different aspects to these thoughts to tap on. Even with this element almost anyone can harness some benefits EFT has to offer.
What is the point? How does this relate to anything?
If the problem you are trying to resolve can be pictured like a table top. The many factors contributing to the problem can be thought of as the legs to this table.
The tabletop (your problem /issue), may have many table legs underneath (different emotional contributors). The idea of EFT is to collapse the table legs to the point that there are not enough to support the table top. In other words, if you collapse enough emotional issues under your problem you will resolve that problem.
What we are looking for is the specific memories from your past that can still cause a negative emotion today. These will be the table legs to one or more table tops. As you collapse each event, e.g. remove the negative emotion associated with that thought you will begin to positively influence the problem you are trying to resolve.
Different table legs can be thicker (more influential on a problem) than others. Breaking these down will accelerate collapsing an issue.
Skeptical of EFT?
It is completely natural to think; that cannot work? Surely not? The majority of issues take a little time to resolve, some cannot be resolved, others however will be what we call one minute wonders. These are when you do one or two rounds of tapping and the issue just goes!
When you see it for yourself you begin to think just maybe there is something to this. It first happened to me when I was hobbling around the house with a calf injury from rugby. I did one round of EFT and to my disbelief the pain had pretty much gone! I could even do a one leg calf raise. Each time I witnessed one of these ‘freak’ events it proved further how this works.
If you give it just a little time of day you will see some results. It is so easy to do and has no negative side effects you may as well give it a try.
How to learn more about EFT.
If you would like to discover more about EFT then consider my on line EFT course or you can work with me face to face through Personal training London (Clapham).
If the problem you are trying to resolve can be pictured like a table top. The many factors contributing to the problem can be thought of as the legs to this table.
The tabletop (your problem /issue), may have many table legs underneath (different emotional contributors). The idea of EFT is to collapse the table legs to the point that there are not enough to support the table top. In other words, if you collapse enough emotional issues under your problem you will resolve that problem.
What we are looking for is the specific memories from your past that can still cause a negative emotion today. These will be the table legs to one or more table tops. As you collapse each event, e.g. remove the negative emotion associated with that thought you will begin to positively influence the problem you are trying to resolve.
Different table legs can be thicker (more influential on a problem) than others. Breaking these down will accelerate collapsing an issue.
Skeptical of EFT?
It is completely natural to think; that cannot work? Surely not? The majority of issues take a little time to resolve, some cannot be resolved, others however will be what we call one minute wonders. These are when you do one or two rounds of tapping and the issue just goes!
When you see it for yourself you begin to think just maybe there is something to this. It first happened to me when I was hobbling around the house with a calf injury from rugby. I did one round of EFT and to my disbelief the pain had pretty much gone! I could even do a one leg calf raise. Each time I witnessed one of these ‘freak’ events it proved further how this works.
If you give it just a little time of day you will see some results. It is so easy to do and has no negative side effects you may as well give it a try.
How to learn more about EFT.
If you would like to discover more about EFT then consider my on line EFT course or you can work with me face to face through Personal training London (Clapham).
Metabolic typing Theory
Metabolic typing
Metabolic typing is the science of personalized nutrition. It is a accurate system for determining which foods your body needs.
Discovering your metabolic type is the single biggest health measure you can take and the most effective way to lose weight. Metabolic typing answers the foundational questions of nutrition by telling you:
• What to eat
• How much to eat
• What foods to specifically avoid
• All other aspects of nutrition including supplements, food quality etc
To make these recommendations the science of metabolic typing has been rapidly developing from the pioneering work of many researchers throughout the last fifty years.
Metabolic typing recognizes that there are ten fundamental control systems within the human body. Each of these systems determines the way the chemical reactions occur within your body.
To achieve and maintain true health the control systems must be brought into balance. Failure to do this leads to faulty metabolism within the cells which is the cause of health complaints. Being overweight is a sign of faulty metabolism.
Answering the big questions in nutrition, metabolic typing determines:
What to eat?
It is the influence of the main two control systems that determines which foods your body needs. All my clients undergo a metabolic typing test which reveals where their body lies upon these two systems. This directs us to the metabolic typing diet plan that will give you the exact foods and nutrients you require to lose weight, improve energy and health.
How much to eat?
We all have a unique and specific ideal fuel mix. This is the amount of food that allows the body to effectively utilize and produce energy.
When you eat the right foods in the right ratios of protein, carbohydrate and fat you will experience a sense of high energy and mental focus while avoiding food cravings, energy drops or frequent hunger.
To discover the right amounts of food I coach my clients to tune into their bodies and find the answer out for themselves. Metabolic typing uses the ideal fuel mix and body language signals as a key criteria for success along with eating the right foods for your body. (As defined by your metabolic type).
What foods should I specifically avoid?
It is essential you ensure any food sensitivities or intolerances are addressed within your diet. Eating foods that your body has trouble processing can make weight loss impossible and cause a number of unwanted health symptoms. Food intolerance's are very common and undermine all efforts to be healthy.
The metabolic typing test also looks at the pattern of where you store fat on your body. The way you store fat has implications on weight loss and food cravings.
I am sure you have noticed how some people store fat all over their body, on their hands, face etc while others gain fat just on their stomach. There are other characteristic patterns to these and they represent the behaviour of your endocrine glands within your body. e.g. thyroid, adrenal etc.
The endocrine glands are stimulated by certain foods. When these foods are eaten in excess over a prolonged period they can exhaust your dominant gland. This can lead to low thyroid or adrenal fatigue and be the cause of unwanted fat storage and poor health.
Finally, metabolic typing allows you to use the influences of your blood type to avoid certain foods. There are certain foods that can interact with specific blood types to cause unwanted health complaints.
Please note that metabolic typing is far in advance of the well known eat right for your blood type book and is fundamentally different. For more information on this read my article on a comparison of metabolic typing and all the major diets
Other nutritional issues
The metabolic typing research has also covered the effects of the other issues surrounding nutrition and lifestyle. This includes food quality, supplements, cooking techniques and other factors such environmental influences. e.g. sleep , sun, toxins etc. This allows you to further safeguard your health and optimize your body fat levels.
Summary.
Metabolic typing is the most advanced nutrition system in the world as it is the only one that effectively and accurately classifies the differences between people.
It provides an answer to what, how much and what not to eat. It is the most important and biggest health measure you can take and the fastest and most effective ways to lose weight.
To continue to learn more about metabolic typing then subscribe to my weekly newsletter
If you would like to discover your metabolic type then consider my on line metabolic typing course or you can work with me by doing some personal training in London, (Clapham).
Metabolic typing is the science of personalized nutrition. It is a accurate system for determining which foods your body needs.
Discovering your metabolic type is the single biggest health measure you can take and the most effective way to lose weight. Metabolic typing answers the foundational questions of nutrition by telling you:
• What to eat
• How much to eat
• What foods to specifically avoid
• All other aspects of nutrition including supplements, food quality etc
To make these recommendations the science of metabolic typing has been rapidly developing from the pioneering work of many researchers throughout the last fifty years.
Metabolic typing recognizes that there are ten fundamental control systems within the human body. Each of these systems determines the way the chemical reactions occur within your body.
To achieve and maintain true health the control systems must be brought into balance. Failure to do this leads to faulty metabolism within the cells which is the cause of health complaints. Being overweight is a sign of faulty metabolism.
Answering the big questions in nutrition, metabolic typing determines:
What to eat?
It is the influence of the main two control systems that determines which foods your body needs. All my clients undergo a metabolic typing test which reveals where their body lies upon these two systems. This directs us to the metabolic typing diet plan that will give you the exact foods and nutrients you require to lose weight, improve energy and health.
How much to eat?
We all have a unique and specific ideal fuel mix. This is the amount of food that allows the body to effectively utilize and produce energy.
When you eat the right foods in the right ratios of protein, carbohydrate and fat you will experience a sense of high energy and mental focus while avoiding food cravings, energy drops or frequent hunger.
To discover the right amounts of food I coach my clients to tune into their bodies and find the answer out for themselves. Metabolic typing uses the ideal fuel mix and body language signals as a key criteria for success along with eating the right foods for your body. (As defined by your metabolic type).
What foods should I specifically avoid?
It is essential you ensure any food sensitivities or intolerances are addressed within your diet. Eating foods that your body has trouble processing can make weight loss impossible and cause a number of unwanted health symptoms. Food intolerance's are very common and undermine all efforts to be healthy.
The metabolic typing test also looks at the pattern of where you store fat on your body. The way you store fat has implications on weight loss and food cravings.
I am sure you have noticed how some people store fat all over their body, on their hands, face etc while others gain fat just on their stomach. There are other characteristic patterns to these and they represent the behaviour of your endocrine glands within your body. e.g. thyroid, adrenal etc.
The endocrine glands are stimulated by certain foods. When these foods are eaten in excess over a prolonged period they can exhaust your dominant gland. This can lead to low thyroid or adrenal fatigue and be the cause of unwanted fat storage and poor health.
Finally, metabolic typing allows you to use the influences of your blood type to avoid certain foods. There are certain foods that can interact with specific blood types to cause unwanted health complaints.
Please note that metabolic typing is far in advance of the well known eat right for your blood type book and is fundamentally different. For more information on this read my article on a comparison of metabolic typing and all the major diets
Other nutritional issues
The metabolic typing research has also covered the effects of the other issues surrounding nutrition and lifestyle. This includes food quality, supplements, cooking techniques and other factors such environmental influences. e.g. sleep , sun, toxins etc. This allows you to further safeguard your health and optimize your body fat levels.
Summary.
Metabolic typing is the most advanced nutrition system in the world as it is the only one that effectively and accurately classifies the differences between people.
It provides an answer to what, how much and what not to eat. It is the most important and biggest health measure you can take and the fastest and most effective ways to lose weight.
To continue to learn more about metabolic typing then subscribe to my weekly newsletter
If you would like to discover your metabolic type then consider my on line metabolic typing course or you can work with me by doing some personal training in London, (Clapham).
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
Rugby fitness training newsletter - Febuary 6th - Approaches to personal fitness and team training.
Top articles:
Team training - Has your club changed with the times?
An overview of how to improve all aspects of play through training.
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Rugby fitness training
Today I take a more global look at fitness, preparation and performance improvement. For a long time it has been a drive in me to try and change the way team sessions are conducted.
In my experience training is usually stale, monotonous and fairly ineffective. I don't know how many tackle pads I have driven back over the years but I did note how it never improved my tackling.
Read my article today to consider if there could be improvements to be made within your club. Forward on to your coach if you think it could help.
The second article overviews how you should be looking to approach improving your rugby performance. It outlines everything from the different types of training through to the impact of nutrition and the mind. It is certainly a thought provoking article.
I hope you are looking forward to the 6 nations like I am. My fingers are crossed that Wales can pull of a win in Twickers.
Hope your training is going well
Ben Wilson
Rugby fitness training
Author of Rugby fitness training: A twelve month conditioning programme
Team training - Has your club changed with the times?
An overview of how to improve all aspects of play through training.
Signed up for the newsletter yet? Confirm your subscription .
Rugby fitness training
Today I take a more global look at fitness, preparation and performance improvement. For a long time it has been a drive in me to try and change the way team sessions are conducted.
In my experience training is usually stale, monotonous and fairly ineffective. I don't know how many tackle pads I have driven back over the years but I did note how it never improved my tackling.
Read my article today to consider if there could be improvements to be made within your club. Forward on to your coach if you think it could help.
The second article overviews how you should be looking to approach improving your rugby performance. It outlines everything from the different types of training through to the impact of nutrition and the mind. It is certainly a thought provoking article.
I hope you are looking forward to the 6 nations like I am. My fingers are crossed that Wales can pull of a win in Twickers.
Hope your training is going well
Ben Wilson
Rugby fitness training
Author of Rugby fitness training: A twelve month conditioning programme
News letter - Febuary 6 th 2008 - Five tips to kick start you to lose weight
Top articles
Five simple measures you can do today to start losing weight?
Learn to run - Follow these guidelines and be a jogger within weeks.
EFT - Do you focus on not being ill or being in sensational health?
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One2one nutrition news
In this week's newsletter I start with five very effective and simple measures you can put in place to kick start any weight loss attempt. Despite making resolutions to lose weight this year many people have not yet started their efforts while others are just giving up. Either way take a read of these five effective and powerful recommendations.
The second article is a subject that has been a focus for my personal training in London and around the world for many years - Teaching people to run.
There is no better exercise to make you feel fitter day in day out. Assuming your body is in good function to be able to run without joint pain then follow the advice I have given in the article today.
If you do suffer joint pain when running then you can usually sort this out quite easily with a clever strengthening and stretching programme. Please see my website for information on this.
The final article is one from the EFT website but it focuses more on a general view point people take to health. Ask yourself if you main goal in health is avoiding pain, illness and the like or is it to be bouncing on top of the world with great energy and vitality. There is a big difference between these two view points. The article describes this effectively.
I hope you are continuing to enjoy these free newsletters.
If you would like further support consider my personal training in London (Clapham) or metabolic typing on line.
Hope you are well
Ben Wilson
One2one Nutrition
Ppersonal training London - Your London personal trainer,
Metabolic typing advisor and EFT - Emotional freedom technique Therapist
Five simple measures you can do today to start losing weight?
Learn to run - Follow these guidelines and be a jogger within weeks.
EFT - Do you focus on not being ill or being in sensational health?
Signed up for the newsletter yet? Confirm your subscription and receive a bonus information guide on a choice of four topics.
One2one nutrition news
In this week's newsletter I start with five very effective and simple measures you can put in place to kick start any weight loss attempt. Despite making resolutions to lose weight this year many people have not yet started their efforts while others are just giving up. Either way take a read of these five effective and powerful recommendations.
The second article is a subject that has been a focus for my personal training in London and around the world for many years - Teaching people to run.
There is no better exercise to make you feel fitter day in day out. Assuming your body is in good function to be able to run without joint pain then follow the advice I have given in the article today.
If you do suffer joint pain when running then you can usually sort this out quite easily with a clever strengthening and stretching programme. Please see my website for information on this.
The final article is one from the EFT website but it focuses more on a general view point people take to health. Ask yourself if you main goal in health is avoiding pain, illness and the like or is it to be bouncing on top of the world with great energy and vitality. There is a big difference between these two view points. The article describes this effectively.
I hope you are continuing to enjoy these free newsletters.
If you would like further support consider my personal training in London (Clapham) or metabolic typing on line.
Hope you are well
Ben Wilson
One2one Nutrition
Ppersonal training London - Your London personal trainer,
Metabolic typing advisor and EFT - Emotional freedom technique Therapist
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