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DIETS

With the first few months of 2020 comes new diets, but are these diets actually worse for you than choosing healthier foods?

BY MADELINE HAMMETT NEWS EDITOR

DEATH TO DIETS Diets are no fun. Giving up the food you love for slight starvation, more expensive unappetizing meals and constantly trying to convince yourself it’s worth it is never fun. Some diets, such as the paleo diet, may take some time to get used to, but cutting out preservatives, unnecessary sugars and unhealthy additives is actually good for the body. The paleo diet can easily become a lifestyle and not a harmful one at that. Not only will it help with potential weight loss, but it will also help in creating and maintaining a truly healthy body. The keto diet, on the other hand, is not the best choice when it comes to weight loss or developing healthy eating habits. If not followed word for word the body can begin to lose strength, blood sugar, and potentially result in a health issue. The keto diet also endangers the body’s healthy cholesterol levels. Even worse than that would be choosing a juice cleanse for weight loss. This forces the body to give up what is depends to for all nutrition: food. A juice cleanse is never a good idea, often times causing more harm than good if carried on for a long period of time. The Skinny Tea Detox focuses solely on weight loss and not in a healthy way either. Overall, dieting is a personal choice, but one that should be considered wisely. Eating healthy and working out to lose weight is always the best way to go.

KETO DIET A keto or ketogenic diet is a lowcarb, moderate protein, higher-fat diet designed to help one burn fat quickly and more effectively. It resets the body’s metabolism helping with weight loss, health, and performance, as shown in over 50 studies. The ketogenic diet puts no limit on the intake of saturated fat or trans fats. These fats are known to heighten the body’s bad LDL cholesterol levels and lower the body’s good HDL cholesterol levels.

PALEO DIET This Paleo diet is less of a diet and more of a lifestyle. This diet bases itself off of eating what was available during the paleolithic era. The main food groups eaten are lean meats, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts,and seeds. The reasoning behind the food group choices is discordance hypothesis which states that the human body is genetically mismatched to the modern diet. People choose this diet in an effort to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight by turning it into a lifestyle.

JUICE CLEANSE Many people choose juice cleanses because they claim to wipe out toxins from the body resulting in weight loss, resetting the digestive system and changing the way the

26 LE JOURNAL body feels each day. Juice cleanses can go anywhere from three to 14 days. During the cleanse, participants must drink multiple juices a day, usually five or six, and an ample amount of water. Some cleanses allow food such as protein balls or salads to be eaten as well which are often sold with the cleanse. Others require complete elimination of all food with the exception of a decaffeinated tea.

SKINNY TEA DETOX The Skinny Tea Detox prides itself completely on weight loss. The listed benefits of the detox are boosting metabolism, cleansing and detoxifying the body, and reducing bloating. The detox requires the purchase of two teas, one in the morning after waking up and one at night right before bed. The detox has several meal plans recommended to go along with the teas all which include healthy foods, little carbs and not much sugar. The only point of this diet is to lose weight temporarily.