{"id":68882,"date":"2012-04-16T09:36:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=68882"},"modified":"2012-09-12T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T20:45:14","slug":"self-editors-new-book-claims-superfoods-will-cause-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/self-editors-new-book-claims-superfoods-will-cause-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"SELF Editor’s New Book Claims Superfoods Will Cause Weight Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Superfoods are indeed super, but they aren\u2019t a magic weight loss tool. A new diet book should be more clear before it becomes the next fad.<\/p>\n

Lucy Danziger is the editor-in-chief of SELF magazine. She recently published a book about her experiences with eating superfoods and ditching dieting. The book is titled “The Drop 10 Diet. Add to Your Plate to Lose the Weight.\u201d \u00a0The book describes how Danziger turned to foods like nuts, berries and whole grains<\/a><\/strong> and found herself 25 pounds lighter in just six months. She also focused on what she could eat verses what she couldn\u2019t as she began her diet.<\/p>\n

The foods Danziger sticks to are called superfoods<\/a><\/strong>. The superfood title was coined in 2004 by Dr. Steven Pratt. He compiled 20 foods that met the criteria for being \u201csuper.\u201d These 20 foods are readily available to the public, contain nutrients that are known to enhance longevity, and the health benefits of the food has to be backed by peer-reviewed scientific studies.<\/p>\n

The twenty foods that meet Dr. Pratt\u2019s requirements are apples, avocado<\/a><\/strong>, beans, blueberries, broccoli, cinnamon, dark chocolate, dried superfruits, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, honey, kiwi, low-fat yogurt, oats, onions, oranges, pomegranates, pumpkin, soy, spinach, tea, tomatoes, turkey, walnuts, and wild salmon.<\/p>\n

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Superfoods are supported by many professionals as being very healthy. Our resident nutritionist, Mary Hartley, RD concurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI agree that the ‘superfoods’ mentioned are very nutritious. I choose them most often myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The difficulty with Danziger\u2019s claims is that simply eating superfoods will melt weight away. Hartley shared her colleague and fellow registered dietician Marisa Moore\u2019s comments regarding weight loss and superfoods.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuperfoods are healthy, but adding them to your plate won’t simply melt the pounds away.
\nThey are weight-management friendly,” Moore wrote in an e-mail. “But to say that they boost fat loss may be taking it a step too far.”<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Danziger describes her rapid weight loss, it seems, as\u00a0an afterthought that her hobby of triathlons may have contributed to.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe author describes a \u2018diet-mentality\u2019 way of looking at food that perpetuates yo-yo dieting<\/a><\/strong>,” says Hartley,\u00a0“and her triathlete experience has nothing to do with reality. Triathletes burn a lot of calories. Of course she lost weight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cdiet book\u201d section of a bookstore is always chalked full of the latest and greatest technique to lose weight. The struggle is that there\u2019s no new way to lose weight. No food will make a body lose weight. Weight loss only comes from eating fewer calories, period. While superfoods are great for one\u2019s diet, the author should not be\u00a0claiming they will cause weight loss.<\/p>\n

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