What is the Blood Type diet?
http://www.dadamo.com/typebase4/typeindexer.htm
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.
-------------------------
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.
