Comparing diet plans like HCG, Paleo, and Atkins can help you find the best extreme weight loss meal plan. Learn the consequences of junk food and how to navigate low-carb cooking with soy flour.
Your thyroid gland is part of your endocrine system and produces the hormones responsible for regulating metabolism. If your thyroid overproduces hormones, called hyperthyroidism, treatment can include surgical removal of your thyroid or radioactive iodine to completely shut down all thyroid function.
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Sugar Busters is a low-sugar/moderate carb diet that claims weight loss is dependent on keeping glucose and insulin levels low. Insulin is released by your pancreas in response to a rise in glucose, most often from eating sugar and other simple carbohydrates.
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Losing weight may seem like a simple equation -- burn more calories than you eat, and your body will use stored fat for energy. But for millions of overweight Americans, that may seem easier said than done.
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A high protein diet can cause gastric distress and diarrhea due to a lack of fiber, an over-consumption of dairy products such as cheese or cream, or highly processed manufactured low carb snack foods. Chronic diarrhea can lead to dehydration and an electrolyte imbalance, causing mineral loss.
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Glucose, easily made from carbohydrates, is your body's preferred energy source. A ketonic diet helps your body burn stored fat for energy, instead of glucose. Most low-carb diets are ketonic, also called ketogenic -- the word comes from "ketones,"
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The "Extreme Fat Smash Diet" by Dr. Ian K. Smith, is the follow-up book to his popular Fat Smash Diet used on VH1's television show, Celebrity Fit Club. The Extreme Fat Smash promises faster results in a shorter time period. If you have between 10 and 25 pounds to lose, this diet is designed for you.
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Graves' disease is the most common type of overactive thyroid disorder. It's caused by an immune system response that makes your thyroid produce too many hormones. Thyroid hormones control metabolism.
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Three-day diets are rapid weight-loss fad diets that often promise you to lose 10 pounds in just 72 hours. Known by many names, including the Cleveland Clinic Diet, the American Heart Association Diet or the Kaiser Diet, the specific meal plan can also be referred to when naming the diet.
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