Lose Weight Using The Hourglass Diet Healthy Diet Plan

The Hourglass Diet is a new model for eating wisely in a junk food world. It outlines a simple, easy to understand approach to eating in a way that nourishes the cells of your body without fattening yourself up.

What's unique about the Hourglass Diet is the seven food zones and 22 food groups all neatly colour coded so you know immediately when you're eating good food and when you're eating junk.

Unlike other diet books The Hourglass Diet is not padded out with recipes. You don't need recipes if you buy good food.

In the Hourglass Diet, author John Miller takes a swipe at a number diets produced by various nutrition groups, principally because of the love affair they have with bread. The low bar of the Glycemic Index has been set too high in order to sneak bread and white rice into a healthy diet. Of course bread is a refined cereal, and for a lot of people refined cereals are not the best way to eat. Unrefined cereals get the green light - in moderation. Refined cereals get the red light because of their impact on insulin metabolism.

With respect to the Pyramid have you noticed that the food that's not good for you (chocolate, ice-cream, licorice …) is staring at you from the top of the Pyramid?

As for the dietetic profession, there are too many dieticians sharing pillow talk with the world's largest manufacturers and purveyors of junk food.

The Hourglass Diet has one of the best junk food definitions you'll ever see. We're drowning in a sea of junk. In most diet books ‘junk food' hardly gets a mention. That's one of the reasons why people keep eating it; they're unaware of its energy content and its lack of nutritional value. For instance, 120gms of chocolate has around as much energy as 2Kg of carrots. You don't have to be a genius to work out which of the two is better for you, though 2Kg of carrots is going to put a serious dent in your appetite!

You'll be amazed how much junk food out there is masquerading as good food. It lines the shelves of supermarkets.


You won't have heard of the term ‘garbohydrates' before, but in the Hourglass Diet it's described as the energy-dense foods made from combinations of fat, flour, sugar and potato. Just remember you first heard about the ‘garbohydrates' in the Hourglass Diet.

Whilst the Hourglass Diet has simplified the complicated, too many diet books are overly simplistic. For most people, eating to nourish the cells of the body without fattening themselves up is more complicated than trying to spend their lives eating like sparrows or rabbits. It's too hard. What happens is they end up on the diet roller coaster.

The Hourglass Diet overcomes the fat/thin/fat dilemma with the inclusion of a section on satisfying the inner hunger. You can't satisfy the inner hunger by eating.

In a nutshell, what the Hourglass Diet does is set out the principles of healthy eating and once you've digested those principles, the recipes will look after themselves.

In the meantime stay tuned, highly tuned and eat from the top of the Hourglass. That way you'll nourish the cells of your body without fattening yourself up.

John Miller

http://www.hourglassdiet.com

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John Miller

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