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Eat Donuts, Pizza and Ice Cream And Lose Weight Crazy or What?
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Graham Foster
<br/><br/><br/> <div style="border-bottom:1px solid #CCCCCC"></div> <br/> <!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.6 (WP) --> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> <!-- // ODIOGO_START:do_NOT_remove_this_comment showOdiogoReadNowButton ("4748", "Eat Donuts, Pizza and Ice Cream And Lose Weight Crazy or What?", "2029", 290, 55); // --> </script> <br/> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> <!-- showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame ("4748", "2029", 290, 0); // ODIOGO_END:do_NOT_remove_this_comment // --> </script> <!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.6 (WP) --> <p>When I occasionally come across what I would describe as a fad diet book during my research I can never resist poking my nose in it and The Big Breakfast Diet By Dr Daniela Jakubowicz was to much temptation to ignore and when you read this I think you’ll understand why.</p> <div class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; display: block;"> <div> <dl style="width: 190px;" class="wp-caption alignright"> <dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30265340@N00/3183515356"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3364/3183515356_952dd7bab0_m.jpg" alt="big breakfast" title="big breakfast" height="240" width="180"/></a></dt> <dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;">Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30265340@N00/3183515356">yewenyi</a> via Flickr</dd> </dl> </div> </div> <p>The Big Breakfast Diet is one of the latest in an ever growing line of fad and shall we say questionable diet books which seem to utilise supposed science for there basis and the BBD is certainly not afraid to do that.</p> <p>Author of The Big Breakfast Diet by Daniela Jakubowicz, MD, an endocrinologist in Venezuela was originally brought in to the public eye when she presented her theories to a group of fellow endocrinologists at there 90th annual meeting. </p> <p>This as several people have sinced pointed out would not be a normal way of grabbing the attention of fellow doctors (which is nomally done by publishing a paper or report in a respected medical journal) but would certainly help grab the attention of the press.</p> <p>The presentation was not that well recieved and several other endocrinologists thought that the research was fundementally flawed so it suprised everyone when the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761154930?ie=UTF8&tag=angliamortgag-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0761154930">The Big Breakfast Diet </a>was released and cited by Time to be one of the most likely best selling diet books of 2010.</p> <p>In case you wondered several of the other nine are on the whole pretty much controvesial also so maybe headline grabbing is high on the list of criteria look for when buying a diet book.</p> <p>Howvere I will look at those over the coming weeks and suggest which are worth considering if you like that sort of thing.</p> <p><strong>Anyway back to the Big Breakfast Diet for now at least…</strong></p> <p>The sub heading for this book is “Eat Big Before 9am and Lose Big For Life” now that would entice anyone to read it wouldn’t it?</p> <p>So I did.</p> <p>But before we get carried away what does that mean and how does the does the body know it’s not 9.15 or 9.30 I know it’s clever but food and energy are not able to tell the time. So maybe it means at the start of your day (well lets assume that for now at least).</p> <p>Now if you like eating big meals (chances are you do or you wouldn’t be trying to lose weight) the fully illustrated monster breakfasts are a dream come to true. That’s right stuff a masive 600 calories for breakfast and within weeks you’ll be losing pounds like crazy according to expert Dr Jakubowicz.</p> <p>Now I am not an endocrinoligist but even in my slightly less qualified opinion this seems rather unlikely but never one to criticise without good reason lets continue even if slightly shell shocked at this news!</p> <p>The claims for this diet now becoming popular in the US ( i can’t think why?) are …</p> <p><em>It will boost up your metabolism<br /> Help you burn more calories by day and more fat at night<br /> Satisfy your hunger all day<br /> Crush those diet-derailing cravings for sweets<br /> Give you energy to burn<br /> Allow you to feel alert and refreshed, rather than sluggish and foggy, when you wake up<br /> Reduce your risk for serious health conditions such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease<br /> Reduce migraines</em></p> <p><strong>Really!</strong></p> <p>The science involves 94 women who were overweight of which half were put on this diet and the other half not.</p> <p>With colleagues from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.5481,-77.4533&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.5481,-77.4533%20%28Virginia%20Commonwealth%20University%29&t=h" title="Virginia Commonwealth University" rel="geolocation">Virginia Commonwealth University</a>, Jakubowicz assigned 94 obese, physically inactive women, on average in their 30s, to two groups:</p> <p> * The low-carb diet group of 46 women was instructed to eat a small breakfast totaling about 290 calories that was low in carbohydrates and typically didn’t include bread. A sample breakfast might have included a cup of milk, one egg, three slices of bacon, and two teaspoons of butter. When they visited the study center, these women ate breakfast there and their food was monitored. They ate an average of 1,085 calories a day.</p> <p> * The big-breakfast group of 48 women was told to eat a breakfast of about 610 calories. A sample breakfast: a cup of milk, turkey, cheese, two slices of bread, mayonnaise, 1 ounce of chocolate candy, and a protein shake. They could eat the breakfast in stages from the time they got up until 9 a.m. This group averaged 1,240 calories a day.</p> <p>After four-months, the dieters eating the modest breakfast dropped about 28 pounds, while those on the big breakfast plan lost 23 pounds.</p> <p>Not that significant I hear you cry hardly worth the effort.</p> <p>The real differences seemed to come to a head at the eight-month mark, when the low-carb dieters had regained an average of 18 pounds and the big-breakfast eaters continued to lose, dropping another 16.5 pounds on average.</p> <p>In all, members of the big-breakfast group lost more than 21% of their body weight; low-carb group members lost 4.5%.</p> <p>Now this means that a total of less than 50 people found some benefit from a diet millions now are convinced that this will help them lose weight.Which of course could be true but the thing is I have not yet come across anyone who has been able to stick to a calorie restricted diet for 8 months most struggle with 8 weeks.</p> <p>Where are the FDA when you need them?</p> <p>The fact that so called scientific research is backed by a doctor (seemingly making it fact) makes it all the more worrying so I thought I would try and find more out about Dr Jubkowicz and here is what one doctor<a href="http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/lipid-hypothesis/big-breakfast-bunkum/"> Dr Micheal Eades MD</a> had to say on his blog. </p> <p>Now I am not saying the book is wrong as I don’t have the MD or qualifications in endocrinology (some days I wonder how I choose a Chemistry degree I never actually used thanks to my Careers adviser), </p> <p>But what is significant certainly amongst the medical world is this study has never been published in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_journal" title="Medical journal" rel="wikipedia">medical journals</a> of serious repute as far as I could tell and the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_control" title="Scientific control" rel="wikipedia">control group</a> do seem to have been some what manipulated to get the desired results to prove a point.</p> <p>One thing I learned during my science studies years back was that is you can “help” scientific research work to give you the results you want to prove but when put under closer scrutiny it usually falls down.</p> <p>Have they fixed the results I don’t know but you have to ask why a doctor is more interested in a best selling diet book and not a paper published is a reputable medical journal. </p> <p>Any way that’s my honest review of the book would I recommend buying it no but would it work as a means of weight loss well once again I have to say “buyer beware”.</p> <p><strong>More Thoughts On The Big Breakfast Diet.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://after-cancer.com/food-and-diets/chocoholics-have-an-excuse-to-eat-it-for-breakfast/">Chocoholics have an excuse to eat it for breakfast!</a> (after-cancer.com)</p> <p><a href="http://babyboomeradvisorclub.com/2009/01/15/the-breakfast-diet-the-diet-to-start-your-day-with-and-keep-extra-pounds-off/">The Breakfast Diet-The Diet To Start Your Day With and Keep Extra …</a> <p>The Breakfast Diet-The Diet To Start Your Day With Everyday. New studies are out and they show that a big breakfast may actually help you keep the extra.</p> <p><a href="http://averageweightforwomen.com/giant-breakfast-reduces-your-weight-weight-loss-through-effective-diet-only">Giant Breakfast Reduces Your Weight – Weight Loss Through …</a> <p>At halfway time, the women in the low carbohydrate diet had lost almost 13 kilos, as the ladies in the big breakfast diet had lost almost 11 kilos. But after the second half of the race had gone it was pretty clear who the winners were …</p> <p><a href="http://www.thesecrethealth.com/big-breakfast-helped-women-lose-weight.html">Big Breakfast Helped Women Lose Weight</a> <p>The researchers suggested that the big breakfast diet was more effective at helping the women lose weight over the period of the study because it controlled appetite and cravings for carbohydrate foods containing sugar and starch. …</p> <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/afd78e4f-d94a-46b4-95a9-f669272c1d5a/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=afd78e4f-d94a-46b4-95a9-f669272c1d5a" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"/></a><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div> <script type="text/javascript" class="owbutton" src="http://www.onlywire.com/button" title="Eat Donuts, Pizza and Ice Cream And Lose Weight Crazy or What?" url="http://www.dreambodynow.com/?p=2029"></script> <div class="sociable"> <div class="sociable_tagline"> <strong>Share and Enjoy:</strong> </div> <ul> <li class="sociablefirst"><a rel="nofollow" id="del.icio.us" href="http://delicious.com/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dreambodynow.com%2Feat-donuts-pizza-and-ice-cream-and-lose-weight-crazy-or-what%2F&title=Eat%20Donuts%2C%20Pizza%20and%20Ice%20Cream%20And%20Lose%20Weight%20Crazy%20or%20What%3F&notes=When%20I%20occasionally%20come%20across%20what%20I%20would%20describe%20as%20a%20fad%20diet%20book%20during%20my%20research%20I%20can%20never%20resist%20poking%20my%20nose%20in%20it%20and%20The%20Big%20Breakfast%20Diet%20By%20Dr%20Daniela%20Jakubowicz%20was%20to%20much%20temptation%20to%20ignore%20and%20when%20you%20read%20this%20I%20think%20yo" title="del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.dreambodynow.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/services-sprite.gif" title="del.icio.us" alt="del.icio.us" style="width: 16px; 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