Basics Behind the Plan
The Radical Diet is easy to understand and follow, and simple to use. And it works.
With the Radical Diet you learn what you need to do and how to keep doing it until you’ve get a substantial amount of your weight off. Then you simply ramp up the diet so that it becomes something that suits your metabolism so perfectly that you can easily manage your weight and body composition for the rest of your life.
If you follow the guidelines of the Radical Diet you are GUARANTEED to lose weight, and more importantly, body fat, and reach your body composition goals. This is because unlike all other diet plans that are goal oriented for reaching an ideal body weight, the Radical Diet is results orientated from start to finish.
The Radical Diet - a VLCD Variant of the Metabolic Diet
Very Low Calorie Diets (VLCDs) have been used for decades to dramatically and safely decrease body weight and fat (Rossner S, Torgerson JS. VLCD a safe and simple treatment of obesity. Lakartidningen 2000 Sep 6; 97(36):3876-9.).
Usually VLCDs use special commercially prepared formulas of 800 calories or less that replace all usual food intake. However, that needn’t be the case. Regular foods can be used providing nutritional supplements and comprehensive meal replacements are also used to anticipate any potential nutritional deficiencies in the diet. When used properly, and that means making sure that the nutritional needs are met while on this plan, VLCDs result in significant weight loss.
Interestingly enough, very low calorie diet plans work synergistically with the Metabolic Diet to increase body fat loss and the use of fat as the body’s primary fuel, while at the same time saving muscle from being broken down.
That’s because, among other reasons, very low calorie diets have been found, like the Metabolic Diet, to cause a shift from the use of glucose to lipid as the energy source, even during insulin stimulation (Hagstrom-Toft E, Thorne A, Reynisdottir S, Moberg E, Rossner S, Bolinder J, Arner P. Evidence for a major role of skeletal muscle lipolysis in the regulation of lipid oxidation during caloric restriction in vivo. Diabetes 2001 Jul;50(7):1604-11.).
Also several recent studies have shown that low carbohydrate diets are more effective for weight and fat loss than the high carb diets. The two most recent ones published in the May 22, 2003 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, found that people on the high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet lose twice as much weight over six months as those on the standard low-fat diet recommended by most major health organizations.
Foster GD, Wyatt HR., Hill JO, et al. NEJM 2003: 348 (21):2082-2090. A Randomized Trial of a Low-Carbohydrate Diet for Obesity.
Samaha FF, Iqbal N, Seshadri P, et al. A Low-Carbohydrate as Compared with a Low-Fat Diet in Severe Obesity. NEJM 2003: 348 (21):2074-2081.
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