The Sirtfood Diet: What Is This Trendy Diet Plan, And Does It Really Work?
What the heck are sirtuins? Unlike carbs, fats and proteins, we don't hear this nutrition term bandied about in other diet books and health magazines typically. Erin Morse, chief clinical dietitian at UCLA Health, told CBS News. Many of the sirtuin-rich foods promoted in the diet are plant-based, including blueberries, strawberries, kale, arugula (called rocket in the U.K.), chocolate (as long as it's 85 percent real cocoa), citrus, coffee and matcha green tea. But the big caveat, Morse said, is the animal study part.
No human studies have proven the benefits of eating foods rich in sirtuins. Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, was skeptical about the benefits of surtuins. The Sirtfood Diet packs in foods high in sirtuins, including green juices made from kale, celery, arugula, parsley, green tea and lemon. For the first three days of the diet, you're restricted to three of those green juices plus one sirtfood-based meal a day, totaling no more than 1,000 calories per day.
On the fourth through the seventh days, 1,500 calories a day are allowed, including two sirtuin-filled juices and two meals. A 14-day maintenance phase then follows and dieters can gulp a green juice plus three sirtfood meals a day. Both Morse and Nestle said the early calorie restriction phase is the real secret to the diet's weight-loss promises. She said it's basically a starvation diet, which can cause muscle mass loss and dehydration.
Morse said the initial weight loss dieters may experience won't likely be fat loss, but rather a shedding of water weight. Anyone with a chronic condition such as diabetes, where carbohydrate levels are important to follow, could face more serious health risks, she added. On the plus side, you can't go wrong with a diet full of vegetables and fruits and good fats (such as those found in nuts and olive oil), Morse said. A study out this week in JAMA Internal Medicine backs up the value of loading up on plant-based proteins.
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers studied the diets of more than 130,000 people and found that eating more protein from plant sources was linked with a lower risk of death. Consuming more protein from animal sources was associated with a higher risk of death, especially among adults who had one or more unhealthy habits such as smoking, drinking or being sedentary. The Sirtfood Diet also requires lots of food planning and prep time, and Morse said people who plan their meals in advance typically have more weight-loss success. Morse said, noting that she prefers an overall lifestyle-based plan that people can stick to for life.
Thank you for checking this hub out and for adding your input to these comments! My best friend has high cholesterol levels. I have been at her for years to go natural rather than adding one more drug to her routine. I just sent her an email with a link to this hub. I am inspired and hope she will be also. I truly believe God has given us all we need to heal ourselves. I have been using flax seed for the health benefits alone but knowing about the effect on cholesterol makes it even more vital.
Thanks kindly for stopping by and for your input on this info about lowering high cholesterol. Thanks very much, both for your input here and for linking this to yours on flax seed. Yours is now linked to this one and I'll be going back to read it again more thoroughly. Wow, great to hear this.
Thank you for sharing your own experience, it will for sure motivate hundreds of people out there! Voted up and sharing! Rajan Singh Jolly 5 years ago from From Mumbai, presently in Jalandhar,INDIA. This is awesome feedback. I have always maintained that natural remedies do work. We just need to have more faith in them. Thanks for making a hub about your flaxseed experience. Voted up, useful and awesome. I'm linking your hub to mine on flaxseeds. Voted up, useful and sharing.
An alternative to doctors, tests, and meds when possible is the very best way to manage our health care. We can take more care of ourselves than most people seem to think. There are so many things we can do nutritionally to improve our health without having to rely on drugs that the doctors seem to prescribe with great abandon. It would be nice to find a doctor that had faith in alternative treatments.
If I every get a high cholesterol reading I'll try the flax seed regimen. Thanks for sharing your experience! I do recommend giving a concentrated effort with flax a try. If they do this, maybe you could let us know the results. Thanks much for coming by and letting me know that you found this interesting. I hope it is as helpful to your friends as it has been to me! Thanks for checking out this hub on lowering cholesterol by using flax seed. Thanks for your input on this flax hub! Eddy Jones 5 years ago from Wales. Very interesting and also useful for many I am sure.
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