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Welcome to the Beach!  This message board has a new website to supplement it.  The link to our site is at the top of this board.  For direct access to Frequently Asked Questions, click here!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />


http://www.angelfire.com/mn3/southbeachdiet/faqs.html


Want more?  For some deeper insight “straight from the horse’s mouth”, here are links to several interviews and Q&A sessions with Dr. Agatston, author of The South Beach Diet:


http://www.prevention.com/cda/feature2002/0,4780,5023,00.html


http://forums.prevention.com/viewMessage.jsp?message=261747&thread=30011&forum=40


 


http://forums.prevention.com/viewMessage.jsp?message=261771&thread=30011&forum=40


 


http://forums.prevention.com/viewMessage.jsp?message=261796&thread=30011&forum=40


 


http://forums.prevention.com/viewMessage.jsp?message=261809&thread=30011&forum=40


 


http://www.prevention.com/cda/feature2002/0,4780,5748,00.html


 


Want more cool links for hundreds of Recipes and even more info on the South Beach Diet?


http://www.nbc6.net/dianagonzalez/2169111/detail.html


http://www.prevention.com/cda/feature2002/0,4780,s1-5346,00.html


http://www.shakeoffthesugar.net/article1032.html


http://www.hippodamia.com/sbd/default.aspx


http://sobecookbook.com/south_beach_diet_health_fitness/


 


Do you need a printer-friendly enhanced SBD foods list, the â€œfoods to enjoy” and “foods to avoid”?  This makes a great grocery list to shop with.


See the next posts on this thread for complete lists!!    



Maggie




Edited 12/31/2003 2:16:26 PM ET by ga_beachgirl

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South Beach Diet – Revised Phase 1<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Maggie  

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Wed, 12-31-2003 - 1:11pm

The South Beach Diet - Enhanced Phase II foods list (from prevention.com)<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />


Maggie  

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Fri, 01-02-2004 - 10:23am
bumping back up for our new friends!

Maggie  

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Fri, 01-02-2004 - 5:25pm
just bumping this back up for our new people!

Maggie  

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Fri, 01-02-2004 - 7:32pm
Such wonderful info deserves to be brought up over and over. Thanks again Maggie!


Susan :)

 

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Sat, 01-03-2004 - 11:15am
Hey, Maggie!

I haven't been on the web site for quite a while. Just checking in today, and saw your postings and couldn't help but smile! I made it through the holiday season with no weight gain and I'm sure you did, too. We started the same week, remember?

It's time for me to regroup, though, and I was glad to see your refresher list of good/bad foods. I was getting stuck on the same foods over and over.

Here's to 2004!

Lori

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Sat, 01-03-2004 - 2:28pm

Hi Lori, I remember!

Maggie  

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Sun, 01-04-2004 - 9:18pm
Way to go, Maggie! ENGAGED??!!?? That's wonderful news! Congrats!

Good for you on the 20 lb. loss! I bounce between 15-17 pound drop, and I couldn't be more pleased. We picked the hardest time of the year to loose weight, but darn it, it can be done! Just made reservations to go to Mexico in mid-February, so the real challenge is on to stay on the program and focused. I'm happy with my weight right now so I don't really need to loose any more, but now I want to make sure I maintain.

Keep us up to date on the wedding plans, OK?

Your friend, Lori

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Mon, 01-05-2004 - 12:50pm




Good Fats/Good Carbs


Everyone needs fats and carbohydrates. The trick is to pick the ones that are good for you

by Arthur Agatston, M.D.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />


The South Beach Diet can't be classified as a low-carb diet, a low-fat diet, or a high-protein diet. Its rules: Consume the right carbs and the right fats, and learn to snack strategically. The South Beach Diet has been so widely successful because people lose weight without experiencing cravings or feeling deprived, or even feeling that they're on a diet. It allows you to enjoy "healthy" carbohydrates, rather than the kinds that contribute to weight gain, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

You can eat a great variety of foods in a great variety of recipes. This prevents repetition and boredom, two obstacles to long-term success. Our goal is that The South Beach Diet becomes a healthy lifestyle, not just a diet.

Good Fats, Bad Fats

Fat is an important part of a healthy diet. There's more and more evidence that many fats are good for us and actually reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. They also help our sugar and insulin metabolism and therefore contribute to our goals of long-term weight loss and weight maintenance. And because good fats make foods taste better, they help us enjoy the journey to a healthier lifestyle. But not all fats are created equal--there are good fats and bad fats.

"Good" fats include monounsaturated fats, found in olive and canola oils, peanuts and other nuts, peanut butter, and avocados. Monounsaturated fats lower total and "bad" LDL cholesterol--which accumulates in and clogs artery walls--while maintaining levels of "good" HDL cholesterol, which carries cholesterol from artery walls and delivers it to the liver for disposal.

Omega-3 fatty acids--polyunsaturated fats found in coldwater fish, canola oil, flaxseeds, walnuts, almonds, and macadamia nuts--also count as good fat. Recent studies have shown that populations that eat more omega-3s, such as Eskimos (whose diets are heavy on fish), have fewer serious health problems such as heart disease and diabetes. There is evidence that omega-3 oils help prevent or treat depression, arthritis, asthma, and colitis and help prevent cardiovascular deaths. You'll eat both monounsaturated fats and omega-3s in abundance in all three phases of the diet.

"Bad" fats include saturated fats--the heart-clogging kind found in butter, fatty red meats, and full-fat dairy products.


"Very bad" fats are the manmade trans fats. Trans fats, which are created when hydrogen gas reacts with oil, are found in many packaged foods, including margarine, cookies, cakes, cake icings, doughnuts, and potato chips. Trans fats are worse than saturated fats; they are bad for our blood vessels, nervous systems, and waistline.

Just recently, the FDA ruled that by 2006, food manufacturers must list the amount of trans fats in their products on the label. (The natural trans fats in meat and milk, which act very differently in the body than the manmade kind, will not require labeling.) Until then, here are a few ways to reduce your intake of trans fats and saturated fats, South Beach style.

Go natural.
Limit margarine, packaged foods, and fast food, which tend to contain high amounts of saturated and trans fats.

Make over your cooking methods.
Bake, broil, or grill rather than fry.

Lose the skin.
Remove the skin from chicken or turkey before you eat it.

Ditch the butter.
Cook with canola or olive oil instead of butter, margarine, or lard.

Slim down your dairy.
Switch from whole milk to fat-free or 1%.

Good Carbs, Bad Carbs

Carbohydrates, foods that contain simple sugars (short chains of sugar molecules) or starches (long chains of sugar molecules), have been blamed for our epidemic of obesity and diabetes. This is only partially true, because there are both good and bad carbohydrates.

The good carbs contain the important vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that are essential to our health and that help prevent heart disease and cancer. The bad carbs, which have been consumed by Americans in unprecedented quantities (largely in an attempt to avoid fats), are the ones that have resulted in the fattening of America. Bad carbs are refined carbs, the ones where digestion has begun in factories instead of in our stomachs. The good carbs are the ones humans were designed to consume--the unrefined ones that have contributed to our health since we began eating. Unrefined carbohydrates are found in whole, natural foods, such as whole grains, legumes, rice, and starchy vegetables. They're also called complex carbohydrates, so named for their molecular structure. Besides being packed with fiber, vitamins, and minerals, good carbs take longer to digest--a good thing, as you'll soon see.

Refined carbohydrates, on the other hand, are found in packaged processed foods, such as store-bought baked goods, crackers, pasta, and white bread. Refined carbohydrates are made with white flour and contain little or no fiber. In fact, many products made with white flour are advertised as fortified with vitamins and minerals, because the process of turning grain into white flour strips away its fiber and nutrients. One of our South Beach Diet rules is to avoid foods labeled as "fortified." Current evidence reveals that fortification with vitamins does not recreate the benefits of the natural vitamins that have been removed.

Despite the fact that good carbs are a critical part of a healthy diet, the typical American diet is filled with the bad kinds. And when we're overweight as a result of a diet laden with bad carbs, our bodies' ability to process all carbohydrates goes awry.


Source: http://www.prevention.com/cda/feature2002/0,4780,s1-6559,00.html


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Tue, 01-06-2004 - 1:00pm
just bumping this back up the list!

Maggie

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