Contents:
- Medical Video: “The Sirtfood Diet” by Aidan Goggins & Glen Matten Book Review
- What is a sirtfood diet?
- Guides undergo a sirtfood diet
- What foods can be consumed while on a sirtfood diet?
- Pros and cons of applying the sirtfood diet
Medical Video: “The Sirtfood Diet” by Aidan Goggins & Glen Matten Book Review
Many people who diet are able to achieve ideal body weight. Unfortunately, most healthy diet patterns don't allow you to eat favorite chocolate and stay away from alcoholic drinks. For those of you who like sweet foods, it might be a good idea to go on a sirtfood diet. This diet has been done by Adele, and claimed to be able to lose a few pounds of body weight even though he still ate chocolate and drank his favorite wine. Here's what you need to know about this one unique diet.
What is a sirtfood diet?
Sirtfood diet is a dietary pattern for eating foods that are high in sirtuin, a type of protein that functions to protect cells in the body from damage. In addition, sirtuin also functions to influence the body's ability to burn fat, produce energy, and increase the body's metabolism. Sirtuin can be found naturally in fruits and vegetables. That is why, foods containing sirtuin are referred to as sirtfood - sirtuin food.
This diet is the brainchild of a British nutritionist, Aidan Goggins and Glen Matten by launching a book called The Sirtfood Diet. The second reason the nutritionist launched his book was because he found a surge in searches related to menus and healthy diets on online sites.
However, weight loss is not the main focus of applying this diet pattern. The sirtfood diet is a dietary pattern that emphasizes the habit of eating healthy foods, not reducing food or avoiding food from certain groups.
Guides undergo a sirtfood diet
In carrying out this diet, you must do two different stages.
During the first stage you should not eat more than 1,000 calories for three consecutive days and drink three sirtfood juices. Also added with one food that also contains high sirtuin every day. This stage is done within a week.
The next four days until the seventh day, calorie intake will be limited to only 1,500 kcal by drinking sirtfood juice and consuming solid foods each twice a day.
While in the second stage, you have to lose weight consistently. For two weeks, a person can only eat three meals a day with foods containing sirtuin and one sirtfood juice.
What foods can be consumed while on a sirtfood diet?
If most diets forbid you to consume chocolate and wine, sirtfood diet actually recommends these foods to be consumed as long as you do this diet program. Because chocolate, especially dark chocolate, and wine is a high source of sirtuin food. Besides chocolate and wine, some other foods recommended for consumption during dieting are:
- Apple
- Lemon
- Celery leaves
- Soy
- Strawberries
- Red onion
- Olive oil
- Turmeric
- Cabbage
- Bluberry
- Caper
- Kale
- Kale
- Coffee
- Walnuts
Pros and cons of applying the sirtfood diet
Geggins and Matten say that there are many health benefits obtained from applying this one diet pattern. In the trial, the study participants were known to have lost about 3 kilograms in a week. The participants also reported an increase in energy, cleaner skin, and better sleep quality.
Not until that, this diet pattern also has the ability to control appetite naturally and improve muscle function so that it makes it one of the alternative solutions to gain weight that is not only ideal, but also healthy - with a note balanced with regular exercise and the application of patterns other healthy life.
Behind the health benefits claimed by Geggins and Matterns, unfortunately, until now the sirtfood diet still raises pros and cons. There are some experts who support the application of these dietary patterns, some are not supportive and ask for a review of the benefits.
In fact, a study recently published in the Journal of Physiology shows that consuming sirtuin foods can make physical activities such as exercise become less effective, and reduce blood pressure. Further studies will be conducted to determine the causes of blood pressure due to the habit of consuming foods containing sirtuin.
