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The Best Diets of 1989
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LIFE
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1 / 1989 |
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Robin Parker
Robin Parker, Life editor of THE WORLD & I, was formerly a
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"For twenty of the past thirty-four years, my New Year's resolution has been to lose weight," says magazine editor Susan Reno. "An overweight teacher in high school passed all her diets on to me. Most were so health-compromising I couldn't stick to them: the grapefruit diet, the rice diet, Dr. Stillman's diet."
How is a pudgy person to find a good diet in 1989? Over sixty-five million Americans try an estimated thirty thousand diets each year and spend over $5 billion on diet books, products, and foods to try to lose weight. Many prospective dieters are overwhelmed by the sheer variety of diets and thus end up not choosing any, making their way to refrigerator instead. But now they can take advantage of dietary research undertaken by the experts.
Theodore Berland, author of Rating the Diets, lists the following as the five best diet plans:
1) The High-Carbohydrate, High-Fiber (HCF) Diet-- Dr. James W. Anderson of the University of Kentucky Medical Center established this plan. It resembles a diabetic diet in that it offers exchange lists from which dieters can pick and choose for their menu. In addition, it includes a "beans group," which adds foods high in soluble fiber (such as oats and beans) to one's menu. For more information write to the HCF Nutrition Research Foundation P.O. Box 22124, Lexington, Kentucky 40522.
2) The Prudent Diet--Designed by Dr. Norman Jolliffe in 1957 for a New York men's Anti-Coronary Club, the diet is balanced, low-calorie, and low in saturated fats and cholesterol. It calls for a total of about 2,400 calories a day (compared to the American average of 3,000)--with less than 35 percent of these calories derived from fats--an increased proportion of protein, and a reduction in carbohydrates and salt. The book, The Prudent Diet, is widely available, as are free booklets from your local heart association, containing cooking advice on how to minimize saturated fat.
3) The "Eat to Lose Weight" Diet--the New York City Health Department refined the Prudent Diet and published a low-cal, low-saturated-fat diet that is easy to live with. The diet offers two exchange plans: a 1,200-calorie diet for "most women and small-frame men" and a 1,600-calorie diet for "most men and large-frame women." To receive the diet plan, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Bureau of Nutrition, Room 714, 93 Worth Street, New York, New York
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