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South Beach diet has taken America by storm. Many are swearing by its ability to knock of those unwanted bulges and the knack of keeping cholesterol in control.

Followers of South Beach diet are asked to abstain from bad carbohydrates abundantly found in processed food and food products made from refined flour. Instead, they are asked to consume food containing good carbohydrates. Similarly, the dieters are asked to opt for mono saturated fats instead of saturated fats.

South Beach strongly disapproves of fast food like pizzas, burgers and other ready-to -eat foodstuffs made up of refined flour. However, many times people find it rather inconvenient to cook food that is as per the recommendation given by South Beach diet. This is especially true for those who are hard pressed for time.

However, there are brands that offer frozen food. Many might find the thought of frozen food and South Beach diet a little difficult to digest. But the pairing is possible, especially if you are developing the products in consultation with the doctor who formulated the diet.

Take for instance Kraft Foods. This giant in the food industry has brought a whole line of products targeted towards those South Beach diet followers. This includes frozen food products. Kraft Foods have developed these products in consultation with Dr. Arthur Agatston. Hence, you can lay to rest any doubts you may have over the suitability of these products. All the products are made from whole grains, vegetables and fruits approved by South Beach diet. Only olive and canola oil are used in preparation. In case of non–vegetarian products, only lean meat is used.

South Beach followers can look forward for three options when it comes to frozen food.
In case you are interested in choosing entrees, the following options are available:

1) Mediterranean Style Chicken with Couscous

2) Garlic Herb Chicken with Green Beans Almondine

3) Savory Beef with Cheesy Broccoli

4) Beef & Broccoli with Asian Style Noodles

5) Savory Pork with Pecans & Green Beans,

6) Penne & Chicken in Roasted Red Pepper Sauce,

7) Cashew Chicken with Sugar Snap Peas

Caprese Style Chicken with Broccoli & Cauliflower

Kraft Foods’ South Beach line of frozen products also includes frozen pizzas. Those who love pizza will find frozen pizzas as a healthy alternative to those served by ordinary restaurants and hotels. You can look forward to having:

1) Grilled Chicken & Vegetable

2) Deluxe

3) Pepperoni

4) Four Cheese.

Those interested in having quick meals or snacks in between can look forward to the refrigerated sandwich warps that are launched by Kraft Foods, under its line of food for South Beach diet followers.

The following varieties are available:

1) Southwestern Style Chicken

2) Grilled Chicken Caesar

3) Turkey & Bacon Club

4) Deli Ham & Turkey

So if you are interested in following the South Beach diet, but are daunted by the fact that there are no ready-to- eat stuff available, then worry not! For now, you have Kraft Foods, which has come out with a whole range of foodstuff, especially tailored to suit the needs of the South Beach diet followers.

Normal wheelchairs cannot easily pass over certain surfaces, making access impossible in some natural parks, trails, and beaches. Snow, gravel, mud, and sand can cause the wheels of a wheelchair to sink and become stuck. Beach wheelchairs make it possible to travel over almost any kind of uneven or difficult terrain.

Wheelchairs can be fitted with wheels specially designed to make travel possible over difficult surfaces. Thick, puncture-resistant rubber is used to make extremely wide, air-filled tires which do not get stuck or sink in mud, sand, or snow. Some pneumatic tires can be attached to a wheelchair’s wheels which can move over sand, but balloon tires are the best option for traveling anywhere.

Plastic wheelchairs are available for use in pools or on the beach. The hard plastic frame is usually designed to be disassembled and transported easily. Some plastic wheelchairs have reclining backs, allowing you to lay by the pool and tan without having to leave the chair.

Popular tourist beaches often have wheelchair rental services. Most of the time, wheelchairs modified for the beach have no method included to push yourself without help. They tend to be designed with four identical balloon tires, which means you’ll need someone else to push you along, like in a transport wheelchair. It is harder to push yourself over an uneven surface, even with beach modifications to your wheelchair.

If you can pay for it, a wheelchair designed for use on the beach which is either manual or electric can be purchased. A one-time trip to the beach may not be worth the investment, but if you frequently visit the beach, live on the coast, or travel often on difficult ground, it is a worthwhile purchase. If you will not use it on a regular basis, you may want to use a more economic option.

Portable beach platforms are available allowing you to ride in your existing electric or manual wheelchair on top of a wheelchair dolly. This is an economic option, but you will have limited access to certain areas and it may be a bumpy ride.

Prefabricated kits can be used to turn a manual wheelchair into a beach mobility device. These kits generally don’t use wheels that will allow you to push yourself, but it is the cheapest option. You also may want to make sure your wheelchair will not suffer any corrosion or rusting if it is exposed to sea water.

There are other products available for people who have limited mobility and wish to visit the beach, including floating wheelchairs, walkers with balloon tires, and disks for crutches and canes which evenly distribute weight on sand.

In addition to going on a trip to the ocean, beach wheelchairs can also offer you access to any natural area with rough ground or snow, and all the places your usual wheelchair can’t take you.

Vitaliy Gershfeld asked:




What if you could lose a pound a day without depriving yourself of anything, without trying extreme methods such as starvation of exhausting exercising? Well you can and the way to do that is through a special dieting technique known as the “calorie cycling diet” or as most people call it “calorie shifting”.

Calorie cycling has become one of the most popular and flexible ways to lose weight fast. It naturally enhances your metabolism and fat burning causing rapid weight loss, up to a pound a day in most cases.

The theory behind calorie cycling’s (calorie shifting) effect is that the body adjusts metabolism and fat burning according to the way you eat, or if you eat in routines. Because most people eat in routines, their metabolism stays the same, burning the same amount of fat and keeping their weight stable.

However because of fast foods and lack of exercise, weight starts to increase slowly and the longer it’s allowed to accumulate, the harder it will be to get rid of it with conventional dieting and exercise.

This is where the calorie cycling diet swoops in to save the day. Instead of eating in a routine, you eat in different orders and make sure every meal has different calorie values. You can eat anything from scrambled eggs, chicken, bacon, fruits, vegetables, bacon, nuts, fish and more, just as long as you keep mixing the order in which you eat.

This is the essence of the “calorie cycling” word. This type of eating causes the body to try and adjust to the change, but it can’t because you keep eating in mixed orders constantly making it wonder how many calories to burn before every meal. This causes the body to naturally trigger a reflex. The reflex will be to increase metabolism and fat burning.

It will do this to try and take control of the mixed eating and the winner in this case is you because with the increase in metabolism and fat burning, you can lose up to a pound a day doing this. And best of all you can most of your favorite foods because it’s the way calorie cycling is done and not what you’re eating that causes this weight loss effect. So if you’re wondering how to lose a pound a day, then the calorie cycling diet (calorie shifting) is the answer.

Vitaliy Gershfeld asked:




What would you say if someone told you that it is possible to lose a pound a day by breaking nearly every dieting rule ever created and that it was even possible to lose 5 pounds in 5 days and even 10 pounds in 10 days, you’d probably think they were out of their mind. But the fact is it’s possible and it’s all thanks to 1 dieting technique called calorie shifting.

Calorie shifting is a dieting technique that involves mixing up your eating routines day after day and eating meals with different calorie values about 4 times a day. What this does is it fools your body’s ability to adapt to your eating routines (because you keep changing tem) and wondering how many calories to burn. But because you don’t allow it to adapt, it will unleash a fail-safe reaction and that will be to increase metabolism to it’s peak to try and keep control.

Now we all know what fast metabolism means. Weight loss, better fat burning and a more energetic you! The high level of metabolism can cause up to a pound a day or weight loss so being able to lose 5 pounds in 5 days or even 10 pounds in 10 days is more than possible. In fact some people have been able to lose even more.

You don’t have to worry about side effects or danger. Sometimes people can feel a bit tired because calorie shifting causes the body to keep metabolism high so it will be working a lot so it’ll feel as though you’re actually exercising when in fact you aren’t, but you’ll still be losing weight quickly!

Regardless of whether or not you’re a man or woman, have bad genes, have never had a diet work for you or if you just need fast results and don’t have time to devote to conventional dieting tactics, this diet is ideal for those purposes because it’s effects are all natural and long term. So if you’re wondering how to lose 10 pounds in 10 days or just 5 pounds in 5 days, calorie shifting is the answer!

Ivan Kelly asked:




The Hospital 3 Day Diet, which is also known as the Birmingham Hospital Diet, has become popular due to claims that the diet was created as a means of enabling patients intended for surgery to lose up to 10 lbs in weight over a period of three days. Other sources attribute the origin of this diet plan to the University of Alabama.

It should be noted that these institutions do not make that claim and do not accept any responsibility towards those who follow the diet.

Notwithstanding the uncertainty of its origins, there is little doubt that this simple diet plan has become widespread and that many people have used it, often coming across the weight loss strategy under one of its many names. Apart from the Hospital 3 Day Diet, it is also known as Alabama 3 Day Diet, 3 day Tuna Diet, Tuna Fish Diet, 3 Day Cardiac Diet, and others.

The content of these weight loss diet plans is very similar and will here be treated as essentially the same.

A key element of the Hospital 3 Day Diet is that it contains a low daily calorie level of about 1,000 calories with specified ingredients to provide the protein, carbohydrates, fat (very little) and other nutrients that we need to survive. For a full description of the menu plan, do a quick search for my article “3 Day Tuna Fish Diet - Menu and Diet Plan”.

In brief, the plan outlines the foods to be included for breakfast, lunch and dinner over a three day period.

There are many reports of weight reduction from those who have followed the diet. The amount of claimed weight lost during that time varies, as might be expected with so many differing metabolisms and food requirements being involved. However, a minimum weight reduction of at least 2.5 lbs does seem attainable and likely.

Much of the weight loss from a diet of such a short duration probably comes from water loss. As well, with a calorie count of about 1,000 this would be well below normal requirements for most adults, so energy expended would also account for some of the loss.

However, whilst not a ’starvation diet’, the Birmingham Hospital Diet is likely to generate user problems if continued beyond the recommended 3 days. For instance, it is normal for our bodies to make adjustments when a food shortage is detected. This is a survival mechanism which protects us when little food is available, as in times of famine. The body slows metabolism and conserves fat stores to enable us to survive longer with less food. This actually makes it harder to lose weight, we have less energy and tire more easily. Not a satisfactory long term condition!

Although there may be some short-term loss advantage, the feelings of hunger experienced by the end of the diet encourage extra food intake after the diet has been completed. A better alternative is a program that does not produce a craving for food, does not cause the body to slow its activities, and takes into account nutritional requirements so that changes in eating habits would allow fat loss to happen over a longer period and be lasting.

Rather than following a simple, low calorie diet plan, losing weight over an extended period allows other tactics to be employed in the plan, such as ‘calorie shifting’, placing greater emphasis on fat loss and adequate nutrition. This is more likely in the long run to provide health benefits and sustainable weight loss.

Paul J Green asked:




Here is 7 days rice diet plan which will help you to lose pounds quickly. This diet should be used minimum for 3 days and maximum for 2 weeks. Beginning from day 3 you will lose 1,5 pounds a day.

In this diet it is recommended to use unclean brown rice for all dishes.

1 day:

Breakfast: an apple, rice (80 g of dry grains) mixed with one tablespoon of lemon juice. Green herbal tea without sugar.
Lunch: vegetable soup, vegetable 150 g of salad made of different vegetables except tomatoes , 80 g of boiled rice mixed with one teaspoon of vegetable or olive oil.
Dinner: vegetable broth, 80 g of boiled rice with 2 big carrots.

2 day:

Breakfast: an orange, 80 g o frice mixed with one teaspoon of low-fat sour cream .
Lunch: vegetable broth with boiled vegetables and 80 g of rice.
Dinner: repeat lunch of day 2.

3 day:

Breakfast: a pear and 80 g of boiled rice.
Lunch: vegetable broth, salad made of cucumbers mixed with one teaspoon of vegetable oil, 80 g of rice with mushrooms fried on olive oil.
Dinner: broth, 80 g of rice with white cabbage.

4 day:

Breakfast: fruit salad with 2 tablespoons of rice flakes, 80 g of rice mixed with low-fat milk or cream.
Lunch: vegetable broth, 80 g of boiled rice with radish and carrots.
Dinner: broth, 80 g of rice mixed with 2 tablespoons of sunflower seeds.

5 day:

Breakfast: 80 g of boiled rice with grapes.
Lunch: vegetable soup, 150 g of vegetable salad made of different vegetables except tomatoes , 80 g of boiled rice mixed with one teaspoon of vegetable or olive oil.
Dinner: vegetable broth, 80 g of rice with 2 oranges.

6 day:

Breakfast: 80 g of rice with 2 dates, 4 walnuts and 1 pear.
Lunch: a vegetable broth, salad made of cucumbers mixed with one teaspoon of vegetable oil, 80 g of rice with mushrooms fried on olive oil.
Dinner: broth, 80 g of boiled rice with 1-2 apples, a cup of tea with one teaspoon of honey.

7 day:

Breakfast: 80 g of boiled rice with an apple and a pear,1 glass of fat-free organic yogurt, a cup of tea without sugar.
Lunch: vegetable broth, a portion of green salad, 80 g of boiled rice with 1 tomato and green string beans.
Dinner: broth, 80 g of boiled rice with 2 big carrots.

The dinner should be not later than 7 p.m. and it is also recommended to drink a big glass of water before each meal. Try not to consume any liquids during 1,5 - 2 hours after each meal.