Archive for December 2009

Separated Diet : The Montignac diet

Principle: Today, the Montignac diet has evolved to include the concept of glycemic index (GI), which assesses the absorption more or less fast food sugars by the body. There are two types of meals available, based on the types of associations between fat and sugars:

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Separated Diet : The Shelton plan

Principle: The Shelton system responds to a food classification invented by the author, which distinguishes for example the group of fruit acids, the group of melons, etc..

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Separated Diet : The Antoine Diet

Differentiated diets allow to eat almost everything, but not at the same time. They recommend not eating certain foods or all aimed at a rapid saturation of the appetite for the exclusive use of a single product. The best known are the methods Anthony Shelton and Montignac.

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The starchy : The nutrient content variables

The nutrient content variables

According to the transformations undergone by the starch before being used, then according to the method of cooking, there are large variations in concentrations between the food and the original finished feed. Indeed, the majority of carbohydrates we eat (grains and their derivatives in particular) are more or less refined.

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The starchy

Rice, wheat, corn, rye and also beans, lentils, potatoes. the family of “starchy” brings together many plant foods. All have in common to be a source of complex carbohydrates but also vitamins and minerals. The stock of cereals, pulses and other tubers.

The family consists of starchy products all sources of complex carbohydrates called. It differs in this major group three types of food.

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Diet’s “natural”: station to the intox! Still Another Methods…

Eat according to blood groups

People with type O negative do not have the same needs as those of group A positive! This is essentially what supporters contend the food according to blood groups. The same method has been declined in the form of slimming regimes suitable blood group …

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Diet’s “natural”: station to the intox! Another Methods…

Diet excluding milk or cereal

The exclusion diets are the best known diets without milk, as advocated by Dr. Seignalet or Lejoyeux. The diet “Paleolithic”, which is to eat like early humans, is also a system of exclusion that removes milk and cereals. It is no secret in removing a food group, it will not heal but rather to expose weaknesses, and get really sick.
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Diet’s “natural”: station to the intox!

Many specialists in alternative medicine and other naturopathic doctors now offer “plans” special safeguard his health. This food more “natural” is supposed to hunt small ailments and major diseases. Often mixed methods advice and statements totally crazy. Learn to decipher fact from fiction.

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Macrobiotic diet: attention danger!

The macrobiotic diet would affect the intellectual development of children subjected to this type of diet. The vitamin B12 deficiency, because of the lack of meat in the diet is the main accused.
The macrobiotic diet is based on the oriental complementarily between yin and yang. This concept also applies to food. Cereals, for example, are in balanced and are the basis of the scheme. Fruits, dairy products, sugar is very yin and therefore harmful.

Cereal first!

The scheme macrobiotic meat is not totally banned but it is very often rejected. The extent of forbidden foods depends on the degree to which the follower. The strictest is also composed of 100% crop.
A Netherlands study on 72 adolescents of similar age and social backgrounds who have followed the same but different diets during their childhood has been conducted to assess the impact of this type of diet on cognitive abilities.


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Put yourself in the shadow yoga!


New to the galaxy Yoga, Shadow Yoga is designed to eliminate shadows (shadow) and free our minds of its packaging by a practice body. Interview with Emma Balnaves, teacher Shadow Yoga and Siddha medicine graduate when she visiting Paris.

By tapping the wellspring of tradition, the Shadow yoga differs from others by a very structured practice is enriched by a knowledge of theoretical texts. More than gymnastics health, it is a meditative practice in motion in question. According to Emma Balnaves, founding partner of Natanaga Zhanda, it seems to have a goal: show us the way to a spirit of light in a slender body.

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