Friday, December 14, 2007

Sonoma Diet

Sonoma diet is a unique diet system, which has been the darling of the people in the Mediterranean region. The Sonoma diet pattern developed by renowned top dietician Dr.Connie Gutterson has success rates accelerating in leaps and bounds. One may wonder the name Sonoma and for the origin it owes its name to the lush green Sonoma valley in California rightfully symbolizing the greenery required in the diet.

If you feel that the heart which fits into the fist shouldn’t slip out of your hands, embrace the Sonoma diet, for its heart healthy and a traditional diet which testifies its success with live examples – especially from the Mediterranean region Crete, Greece, Italy or any other country on the Mediterranean coast.

They have been found to have a very low risk of heart disease and interestingly the Sonoma diet even allows wine in limited doses. In general, the mantra is to get your waistline trimmed by eating proper food in the right proportion and not to fall into mislead notions like fasting to the core.

Any systematic and established dieting procedure coupled with physical activity bids good-bye to obesity and ill health. The Sonoma diet pattern allows even limited servings of red meat, but gives importance to whole grains, cereals, nuts and fish as part of diet regimen. Unlike conventional dietary procedures, this doesn’t advocate any fasting practices to shed off those extra pounds of flesh.

In fact, the Sonoma diet allows you to go in for a variety of things such as lean meat and other varieties of tastes that satisfy the yearning of the taste buds.

Sunday, December 09, 2007

The bone structure of Asians is smaller and therefore the ideal body mass index or BMI calculated as the ratio between the weight measured in kilograms and height in square meters is set at 23 for Indians. The ideal constant for Caucasians is set at 25. If you belong to the fair sex, then you have to see that your hip to waist ratio doesn’t cross 0.85. For men the safety factor is set below 1.0. If the joints are not to nag somebody, hearts are to pump efficiently and for a trouble free insulin secretion among other wellness aspects, better watch out for these obesity indices. The obesity monster is striking big. To quote statistics, it is estimated that about a quarter of a million people have undergone surgeries for obesity in the year 2006. Simple lifestyle changes and change in diet patterns- which contain low calories, will make a lot of difference to our health. Take care.