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Summary: Want to Lose Weight? What You Need to Know about Eating and Exercise
What you eat is more important than how much you exercise. Exercise is not the most important thing to focus on when you want to lose weight — although it has numerous other health benefits, including maintaining a healthy weight. As Dr. Roberts’ lab has proved, what you eat and how much you eat play a substantially greater role in determining whether you shed kilograms. But her research has gone much deeper, showing that different people lose weight more effectively with different foods. This realization allows us to create personalized weight-loss plans for individuals that work better than any one-size-fits-all advice.
What are the best foods for weight management? According to iDiet
According to iDiet and Dr Susan Roberts, what are the best foods for weight management?
The iDiet emphasizes foods that are high in fiber and protein, and low-glycemic foods to help manage weight effectively. This approach helps you feel full and satisfied, reducing the likelihood of overeating. The diet includes whole foods and minimizes the intake of high calorie, high fat, and highly processed foods.
Glycemic Index – Good Carbs and Bad Carbs
The Glycemic Index (GI), originally used in research on treating diabetes, measures how much a particular food increases blood glucose in the two-hour period after eating. Foods with a high GI value cause a big rise in blood glucose; low-GI foods, only a small rise. The significance here is that low-GI foods have been shown to suppress hunger extremely well because the more stable blood glucose produced by these foods tells our food brain that all is well and we don’t need to eat again yet.
Dietary fiber: A ‘magic bullet’ for healthy weight management
If I had to name one single food constituent that is most helpful for weight management, it would be dietary fiber. It just has so many benefits and strangely has been researched much less for its weight management benefits than many other dietary factors, but the science is all positive and just keeps getting stronger and stronger.
New Study Argues Against Very Low-Carb Eating
Moderation in all things. Did your grandmother ever tell you this? A recently-published meta-analysis says she was right. A new large-scale study Researchers who pooled the results of eight large studies covering more than 430,000 people have found that eating…
Planning for Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays
As we leave the relative quiet of summer behind, we enter the fall/winter holiday period, which brings many food challenges. It starts with Halloween, which could be called the “festival of candy”, then rolls into Thanksgiving, which is perhaps our…
How does the iDiet work?
The number one question we get is “how does iDiet work and what’s the trick?” The answer is: It works thanks to Dr Roberts’ years of peer-reviewed research. There is no “trick” to successful weight loss. But there’s a better question: Has…
10 Tips to Start Your Year off Right
iDiet’s own Dr. Susan Roberts was quoted in the January 2014 People Magazine “Half Their Size” issue, providing some valuable weight-loss tips. Here is a more comprehensive list of Dr. Robert’s diet tips and advice to help start your year…
Pumpkin Pie Parfait Recipe
Desserts, Diet Tips, Fiber, insoluble fiber, Recipes, soluble fiber, Weight Loss This deceptively rich and satisfying seasonal treat is a fast and easy weeknight dessert, as well as being good enough to serve to company. Just layer it in your best serving pieces for a special…
Chocolate Fudge Cake in a Mug
Need we say more? In cased you missed it, check out our latest iDiet-approved recipe, for a high-protein dessert that’s easy and delicious. Chocolate Fudge Cake in a Mug Recipe