Healthy weight loss means protecting your body composition, ensuring you lose fat rather than healthy lean tissue. Frustratingly, most weight loss diets do the opposite! Low-fat, low-carbohydrate and sugar-free products and diets actually lead to accumulating rather than losing body fat. Weight loss regimes based on any of these approaches may lead to weight loss, but not necessarily to fat loss. Rather, we may lose muscle or other lean tissues, vital for our health, vitality and bodily performance. This is one of the facts underlying the media reports in 2011 that losing weight might be less healthy than staying fat:
Body composition is intrinsically linked with good health. Therefore, healthy weight loss will take into account the importance of having the correct ratios of body fat to healthy lean tissues; well functioning cells and organs, and ensuring we are properly hydrated rather than simply retaining water.
Embarking on any eating plan than involves missing out on any major food group - be that carbohydrate, protein or fats - or which fails to ensure our bodies are provided with all the vital vitamins, mineral and antioxidants that can only be provided by a varied and balanced range of foods simply cannot be considered to be a "healthy diet". Despite the NHS advice in the UK that "reducing the number of calories we consume is the key to weight loss", failing to take account what those calories are made up of is quite simply misguided.
Whilst, by ensuring we balance the nutrients in our diet we can be sure to incorporate the best advice from a modern or Western nutritional perspective, a fully inclusive diet doesn't stop there. We also recognise and incorporate the valuable insights that we can gain from traditional Chinese dietetics. Applying the principles of this dietary philosophy will bring a level of precision second to none to your personal healthy eating regime. Here's an example to illustrate my point:
Consider two people suffering from arthritis, one experiencing hot, painful joints, and the other experiencing a worsening of their symptoms in cold, damp weather. According to our modern nutritional understanding we may advise oily fish as beneficial for joint health for both individuals: great essential fatty acids, and especially Omega-3! Some of the most commonly available types of oily fish include tuna, salmon, mackerel, sardines, trout. These have very different properties according to traditional Chinese dietetics, such that a qualified practitioner would advise that salmon may be especially beneficial for the person experiencing hot, painful arthritis, and trout advisable for the one whose symptoms are aggravated by cold.
By understanding your own individual needs, you can select those foods with complementary properties and bring very specific benefits into your own unique dietary regime. Even more, when combining traditional Chinese dietetics with the best from our Western scientific approach to nutrition (we call it "Fusion Nutrition"), the nature of calories really does matter much more than a mere numbers game.
Bodysense is the only dietary approach that brings Fusion Nutrition for your benefit. So, in order to ensure you get on the right track for sustained, healthy weight loss treat yourself to the best nutrition advice for health, vitality and weight loss - grab your copy of The Intelligent Guide to Your Ideal Body for Life!
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By Elaine Wilson, Fusion Nutritionist
Elaine Wilson a highly respected Nutritional Therapist, Acupuncturist and author who is committed to helping others achieve optimum health.
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