Can an Ice Cream Diet Be Good for You?
According to the newest diet featured in Prevention magazine, you can lose weight & eat ice cream once a day, too.
The trick is moderation, & eating healthy meals the rest of the day. While on the diet, women may have 1 cup of ice cream, & men may have 1½ cups per day. (You should use low-fat ice cream that contains 125 calories or fewer calories per half cup serving, for a total of 250 calories for women, & 375 calories for men.)
The secret to the diet is the calcium. A recent study found that overweight people who took a calcium supplement lost 26 percent more body weight, & 38 percent more fat than those who ate the same reduced-calorie diet, minus the supplement. Another group in the study received calcium by eating three or four servings of dairy products totaling 1,200 or 1,300 milligrams of calcium a day, & lost 70 percent more weight, & 64 percent more fat on a high dairy diet.
Experts say calcium helps people lose weight because when your body does not get enough calcium, it triggers fat cells to store fat & get bigger. In addition, ice cream helps satisfy dieters cravings, so they do not feel as stong an urge to binge.
The complete plan appears in The Ice Cream Diet, a new book due out in August from St. Martin s Press. Meanwhile, here is a sample of the Ice Cream Diet Meal plan from Prevention. Selec-t any combination of breakfast lunch, snack or dinner, & you can still afford the calories contained in the ice cream. The diet contains a total of 1,500 calories for women, & 2,000 for men.
The trick is moderation, & eating healthy meals the rest of the day. While on the diet, women may have 1 cup of ice cream, & men may have 1½ cups per day. (You should use low-fat ice cream that contains 125 calories or fewer calories per half cup serving, for a total of 250 calories for women, & 375 calories for men.)
The secret to the diet is the calcium. A recent study found that overweight people who took a calcium supplement lost 26 percent more body weight, & 38 percent more fat than those who ate the same reduced-calorie diet, minus the supplement. Another group in the study received calcium by eating three or four servings of dairy products totaling 1,200 or 1,300 milligrams of calcium a day, & lost 70 percent more weight, & 64 percent more fat on a high dairy diet.
Experts say calcium helps people lose weight because when your body does not get enough calcium, it triggers fat cells to store fat & get bigger. In addition, ice cream helps satisfy dieters cravings, so they do not feel as stong an urge to binge.
The complete plan appears in The Ice Cream Diet, a new book due out in August from St. Martin s Press. Meanwhile, here is a sample of the Ice Cream Diet Meal plan from Prevention. Selec-t any combination of breakfast lunch, snack or dinner, & you can still afford the calories contained in the ice cream. The diet contains a total of 1,500 calories for women, & 2,000 for men.
