Mediterranean Diet Cuts Heart Disease Risk, Massive Study Finds

[Bob]

Exception ..how I wish....to be a slim Thai man..

I always wonder what those Thai men eat... how can they ever fit into those traffic police (brown) uniform?

Don't we all (want to be slim and Thai).  And I see you've noticed some of the traffic cops.  Some of them are a bit dowdy and all but every once in a while one has to check out the backside of one of them and wonder how the hell he fit into those tight pants.  Whoever is making those brown uniforms sure is using some strong thread. 

[Guest fountainhall]

i do drink way too much diet coke as it fills me up. I try to brush my teeth often.

 

Never thought of using diet coke to brush my teeth! 

[Guest thaiworthy]

Never thought of using diet coke to brush my teeth! 

 

I thought you used champagne from an unclaimed prize on a Christmas quiz.

[Guest abang1961]

Stay off any soda, diet or not.

Diet coke still has too much caffeine in it.

They are really NO good for us.

Instead, take good old plain water... boiled ones will kill off the bacteria and reduce the chemicals(?)

[kokopelli]

Is one supposed to eat the skin or just the fruit?

[Guest thaiworthy]

Is one supposed to eat the skin or just the fruit?

 

Either way, just don't let this banana eat YOU!

 

[Guest fountainhall]

the rest of the week I am always under 1000 calories a day and often around 800+ or -

 

Clearly if I am going to lose any weight, I have to have a calorie counter. How much will he cost? 

[Guest thaiworthy]

I don't like this diet, read and you'll see why.

 

 

England Develops a Voracious Appetite for a New Diet

 

LONDON — Visitors to England right now, be warned. The big topic on people’s minds — from cabdrivers to corporate executives — is not Kate Middleton’s increasingly visible baby bump (though the craze does involve the size of one’s waistline), but rather a best-selling diet book that has sent the British into a fasting frenzy.

 

“The Fast Diet,” published in mid-January in Britain, could do the same in the United States if Americans eat it up. The United States edition arrived last week.

The book has held the No. 1 slot on Amazon’s British site nearly every day since its publication in January, according to Rebecca Nicolson, a founder of Short Books, the independent publishing company behind the sensation. “It is selling,” she said, “like hot cakes,” which coincidentally are something one can actually eat on this revolutionary diet.

With an alluring cover line that reads, “Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, Live Longer,” the premise of this latest weight-loss regimen — or “slimming” as the British call “dieting” — is intermittent fasting, or what has become known here as the 5:2 diet: five days of eating and drinking whatever you want, dispersed with two days of fasting.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/fashion/england-develops-a-voracious-appetite-for-a-new-diet.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=health&adxnnlx=1362233282-QnNHO3O9r3+O9RvTFTjdAQ&

 

Would any UK residents care to comment?

[Guest thaiworthy]

So true!

 

[Rogie]

Would any UK residents care to comment?

 

Righty-O.

 

Firstly let me get something off my chest:

". . . is not Kate Middleton’s increasingly visible baby bump. . . "

to refer to her as such is wrong! It is ignorant and downright rude to refer to a married woman by her maiden name (unless she has declined to take the surname of her husband) so in this case not only is that wrong it is stupid. She is the Duchess of Cambridge.

 

As for the diet referred to, yes I am familiar with it, and it does seem to have its fans. A female friend of the family announced she was 'on it' recently. I didn't quiz her as to its effectiveness. Maybe I shall next time I see her.

 

There was an interesting programme on British TV back in August which I watched at the time and it definitely intrigued (I think is the right word to use) me.

 

Basically the programme had a front man, the seemingly ubiquitous Michael Mosley, speaking with experts and proponents for two or three diets using the so-called power of intermittent fasting. The 5:2 diet was one of these and the one he fancied himself persisting with, should it come to that.

 

Calorie-restriction has been touted as the way to extend life for a while now, at least I recall reading about it many years ago. That seems to work for laboratory mice, but what about us humans?

 

 

Current medical opinion is that the benefits of fasting are unproven and until

there are more human studies it's better to eat at least 2000 calories a day. If

you really want to fast then you should do it in a proper clinic or under

medical supervision, because there are many people, such as pregnant women or

diabetics on medication, for whom it could be dangerous.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19112549

 

I think for the time being I shall continue with my daily intake of tumour necrosis factor, better known as a lovely ripe banana with the spotty skin peeled at the moment of optimum benefit.

[Guest]

Would any UK residents care to comment?

Never heard of it.

Anyhow, diets are a waste of time. Much better to make permanent changes to one's eating habits.