Diets - A Comparison

What is the Blood Type diet?

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What is SugarBusters?
They say sugar – not fat – makes us overweight, according to the authors of The New SugarBusters!: Cut Sugar to Trim Fat. It is based on the theory that too much sugar causes insulin to rise, which leads to higher blood sugar ... and a higher number on the scale. There’s no counting carbs (or calories).

What do You Eat?
You'll give up all sources of sugar, which includes foods that rate high on the glycemic index such as honey, beer, pasta and potatoes, and of course, sweets and baked goods. Now, I can't live on that. So I have modified the Airola plan allowing me to have organic honey, dark beer, sweet potatoes and one kind of pasta (though I don’t eat that much so I don’t remember if it’s semolina or ? and of course no white flour or white sugar so that pretty much takes care of sweets but baked goods are okay as long as they are made with whole grains or I make them myself so I know what’s in them)

Lean beef, chicken and other lean protein sources as well as certain vegetables, low-fat dairy, and whole grains are allowed. As for my modication of this I don't buy into the 'low fat' fad. If it's low fat, chances are, there is plenty of hidden sugar and chemicals in it so they can try and make the food still taste good. I don’t eat dairy at all only soy milk, otherwise I do same as this says. Okay, I do have white cheeses occasionally but that is occasionally not daily or even many times a week.

How to I Follow It?
They will show you foods to eat and foods to avoid and you'll have to be persistent enough at following a couple rules, such as eating fruit alone and always drinking fruit juice before your meal rather than with it. I do try to eat fruit alone but that’s not required on my plan.

Skipping meals is a no-no. There is also a strict focus on portion control. No second helpings either. I do the portion control too and try to eat something every 2-3 hours.

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What is the South Beach Diet?

They may seem similar, but the South Beach diet is more than just a heart-friendly version of the Atkins diet. All the same, they have a lot in common.

Both South Beach and Atkins diets are the creation of medical doctors. The father of the South Beach diet is cardiologist Arthur Agatston, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Cardiac Prevention Center in Miami Beach , Fla.

Both the South Beach and Atkins diets are best-selling diet books. Only someone living in a cave hasn't, by now, heard of Agatston's The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss. The Airola plan I follow was also created by a doctor and is pretty much the same plan as the NutraPoints and Kevin Trudeau plans – they copied Airola. Of course I also follow some still of what I learned with Jenny Craig but for the most part my ‘plan’ if you can call it that comes from Airola.

Both South Beach and Atkins diets restrict carbohydrates -- carbs, as diet dilettantes like to say. True, "good carbs" are allowed. But South Beach dieters must say goodbye to potatoes, fruit, bread, cereal, rice, pasta, beets, carrots, and corn for the first two weeks. After that, most of these foods remain strongly discouraged.

Both South Beach and Atkins diets have a more severe induction phase, followed by a long-term eating plan. The Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type is also stringent and had too many 'don't eat' foods for me to stick with long term.

The difference, really, boils down to two things:

• Fats. The South Beach diet bans unhealthy fats but strongly promotes healthy ones. Mine does too
• Carbs. The South Beach diet doesn't count grams of carbs. The Atkins diet seeks to change a person from a sugar-burning machine into a fat-burning machine. The South Beach diet looks at how much sugar is in a carb. Low-sugar carbs -- those with a low glycemic index (they don't cause the blood sugar levels to rise and fall as quickly) -- are good (this point may sound very familiar to fans of the Sugar Busters diet) Mine doesn’t count carbs it’s purely based on getting the chemicals and refined foods OUT of ones life.

As Agatston says, this means his diet is not -- exactly -- a low-carb diet or a low-fat diet.

A Glycemic Index Example

Some Starchy Foods Trigger Overeating

Ever wonder why you feel hungry a few hours after eating a big meal? Chances are you ate carbohydrate-containing foods that caused a rapid spike in your blood sugar. This musters extra insulin into the blood. The high insulin, in turn, makes blood sugar crash and suppresses the fat fuels as well. As a result, you get that famished feeling that leads to overeating.

That's what happened in a study of obese teenage boys by researchers at Children's Hospital in Boston and the USDA center in Boston . It's the first solid evidence that carbohydrates with a high glycemic index (GI)—those that are rapidly digested and absorbed—contribute to obesity.

On three separate days at least a week apart, researchers fed the boys breakfast and lunch having either a high, medium or low glycemic index. The boys ate almost twice as much after the high-GI meals compared to the low-GI fare. The high-GI meals induced a sequence of hormonal and metabolic changes that promoted overeating, the researchers reported in the electronic edition of Pediatrics at: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/103/3/e26. They suspect the findings apply to the middle-aged and elderly as well. About one-fifth of U.S. children and one-third of adults are now significantly overweight, despite a significant drop in fat intake over recent years.

Most starchy foods commonly eaten in North America , chiefly refined grain products and potatoes, have a high GI. Moreover, many of the low-fat foods that have flooded grocery shelves are also high in calories. Some starchy foods have GI's up to 50 percent higher than table sugar. Sources of concentrated sugars, such as sodas and fruit juices, also have a high GI. By contrast, vegetables, legumes and fruits generally have a low GI.

Glycemic Index

Below you will find some guidance values for different foods based on the glucose standard glycemic index. For more information on what the glycemic index is, please refer to this article: the glycemic index.

Low Glycemic Index Values are considered those under 20.
Medium Glycemic Index Values are considered those between 20 and 60
High Glycemic Index Values are considered those over 60.

Since Airola doesn’t have a chart like this I will compare to my Nutrapoints book which does chart everything:

Food	Glycemic Index Value
Glucose	100 (Any of these that I do not eat I labeled as ‘don’t eat’)
Baked Potato	98 (don’t eat)
Cooked Carrots	92 (don’t eat)
Honey	92 (honey on Nutripoints list is -5.5 for 2 Tablespoons – however, I still use about a Tablespoon in my homemade oil and vinegar salad dressing a couple times a week, I use organic honey because of the bioavailability and health benefits. My grandfather had honey bees and I believe there is a medicinal quality of organic honey) See this article: http://www.theorganicreport.com/pages/461_organic_honey.cfm
Instant White Rice	91 (don’t eat)
Cornflakes	84 (don’t eat)
White Bread	72 (don’t eat)
Wholewheat Bread	69 (3.5 on Nutripoints per 2 slices)
Table Sugar	64 (don’t eat)
Raisins	61 4 per ¼ Cup
Oatmeal	61 5.5 dry ½ Cup
Pita Bread	57 3.5 per 1 piece
Popcorn	55 (yeah Somersize says none of these either – I eat it occasionally)
Banana	53 (yeah Somersize says none of these either – Jenny Craig says only 1/2 a banana at a time - Now I don't necessarily like bananas all that much but I will eat one occasionally)
Potato Crisps	51 0 per 5 chips - basically there is no nutrition in a potato chip
Peas	51 Canned 7.5 per 1 Cup
Ice Cream	50 (yeah somersize says none of these either – I eat it occasionally)
Rye Bread	42 3.0 per 2 slices of Pepperidge Farm
Pasta	41 (yeah somersize says only semolina – I eat it rarely)
Apples	39 4.5 Nutripoints for one whole fresh apple
Plain Yogurt	38 9 per 1 Cup of Dannon plain
Chickpeas	36 8 per ½ Cup cooked
Strawberries	32 19 Nutripoints per 1 cup
Tomatoes	28 30 per 1 fresh whole tomato only 23 per ½ cup cooked
Peaches	26 11 per 1 whole fresh only 5.5 per 4 pieces of Sun-Maid dried peaches and 0 if they are canned in heavy syrup 10.5 if they are canned unsweetened
Cherries	24 5.5 per 10 cherries if fresh sweet
Fructose	20 (I do not eat anything with HFCS high fructose corn syrup in it!)
Soya Beans	15 7 per ¾ Cup cooked
Peanuts	13 1 per 1 oz of Planter’s cocktail peanuts, if honey roasted only .5 per 1 oz
Channa Dahl (lentils)	7 I'm sorry I don't eat lentils so I didn't look these up.

Low Glycemic Index Vegetables

Low Glycemic Index Vegetables (under 20)

• Asparagus 44 per 8 stalks fresh
• bean sprouts 18 2 Cups of Mung, fresh
• beet greens 56.5 per 1 Cup cooked
• broccoli 38.5 per 1 Cup cooked
• cabbage 39 raw shredded 1 Cup
• cauliflower 40.5 1 Cup raw, cooked 37 per 1 Cup
• celery
• cucumber
• endive lettuce
• mustard greens
• radishes
• spinach
• swiss chard
• watercress.

Medium Glycemic Index Vegetables (20-60)

• Aubergine
• beets
• Brussles sprouts
• chives
• collards
• dandelion leaves
• greens
• kale
• kohlrabi
• leeks
• okra
• onions
• parsley
• peas
• peppers
• pimento
• pumpkin
• rutabagas
• string beans
• turnips

High Glycemic Index Vegetables (over 60)

• Artichokes
• carrot (yeah raw is okay, sugar offset by the fiber content in these)
• corn
• dried beans
• lima beans
• oyster plant
• parsnips
• potato
• squash
• sweet potato (yeah these are okay, sugar offset by the fiber content in these sweet much different and better for you than white potato)
• yam (yeah again okay, sugar offset by the fiber content in these)

Low Glycemic Index Fruit

Low Glycemic Index Fruit (under 20)

• Cantaloupe Very best food bar none you can eat according to Nutripoints at 29 for a quarter melon! Now six Juice Plus gummies provide 34 points!
• rhubarb

Medium Glycemic Index Fruit (20-60)

• Apples
• fresh apricots
• bananas no on somersize and only eat half a one on jenny craig
• blackberries
• cherries
• cranberries
• grapefruit
• guava
• kiwis
• lemons these are excellent anti-acid food with water, helps digestion and alkaline balance in the body also tonifys the body
• limes
• oranges
• papayas
• peaches
• plums
• raspberries
• strawberries
• tangerines
• tomatoes.

High Glycemic Index Fruit (over 60)

• watermelon. (however, has a low glycemic load) and this is best for men’s prostrates!
• Any dried fruit (I agree with this but jenny craig said as long as you don’t overdo and follow the portion directions on the package is same as fresh fruit.)
• blueberries one of the best fruits according to health experts for antioxidant support – I eat ‘em!
• figs
• grapes
• kumquats
• loganberries
• mangoes
• mulberries
• pears
• pineapple
• pomegranates a new one I’ve started having some juice from these because of the antioxidant support
• prunes

I also didn’t see Goji on these lists and it’s an excellent juice, I mix all juices with water so that cuts down the calories and sugar increase to the blood, done this for years.

More info on Nutripoints at: http://nutripoints.com

Diabetes Info

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/10/1057783255168.html

To our better health,

sheila