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The South Beach Diet is so popular that is has spawned several books, frozen dinners and even snacks. According to WebMD, many nutritionists consider it to be healthier and more balanced than many fad diets. It's a fairly simple plan that uses three phases to change your eating habits and give you a pattern to follow for life. more »
The South Beach Diet, a plan which revolves around the replacement of "bad" fats and carbohydrates with "good" fats and carbohydrates, was designed by cardiologist Arthur Agatston in the '80s. It became a popular fad diet around 2000. more »
The South Beach Diet is a bestselling weight-loss program created by Dr. Arthur Agatston. It is considered a low-carb diet, although the weight maintenance portion of the diet does include healthy, high-fiber carbohydrates. As of January 2008, the South Beach Diet has sold more than 22 million copies of its book, according to the... more »
The South Beach Diet is a three-phase plan that separates itself from the Atkins diet by promoting "good carbs" vs. "bad carbs" and "good fats" vs. "bad fats." According to the diet, the good carbohydrates such as beans, vegetables and whole grains are better at regulating blood sugar than the grains and refined sugars that typically... more »
The South Beach Diet was created by Dr. Agatston to help people not only lose weight but keep the weight off. The South Beach Diet consists of three phases. Those wanting to lose 10 pounds or more should start with Phase One. Phase One of the South Beach Diet is designed to jump-start your weight loss while reducing your food... more »
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The South Beach Diet is a diet plan designed by cardiologist Arthur Agatston and dietician Marie Almon as an alternative to low-fat approaches such as the Ornish Diet and the Pritikin Diet advocated by the American Heart Association in the 1980s. Although the original purpose of the diet was to prevent heart disease in Dr. Agatstons own patients, in the early 2000s, word of the diet spread and quickly gained popularity as a means to lose weight Agatston, The South Beach Diet, St Martins Press, ISBN 0-312-31521-X, 2003. pp 7ff.
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History and theory
While Agatston accepted the prevailing wisdom among cardiologists that a low-fat diet would reduce cholesterol and prevent heart disease, he found that, in practice, patients had a difficult time sticking to the diet. To explain this failure, he turned to the scientific work with insulin resistance which led David J. Jenkins to develop the glycemic index in the early 1980s. When sugar enters the bloodstream, the pancreas secretes insulin which triggers cells to absorb it. Many years of introducing quick bursts of sugar would eventually result in cells becoming resistant to insulin. This resistance would leave sugar in the bloodstream longer which would then cause the pancreas to release even more insulin. This excess insulin would eventually drive blood sugar below normal levels. Jenkins (and others) discovered that, in addition to potentially causing diabetes, this effect would also produce cycles of hunger. Excess sugar consumption led to excess insulin which led to low blood sugar which led to hunger pangs which led to the consumption of more sugar.
Agatston postulated that patients on low-fat diets were eating no less food than they had been before they started the diet. They simply had compensated for the fat by consuming additional sugar and simple carbohydrates (wh read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South+Beach+Diet
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