A New Kind of Diet

Lean red meat is benefitial to your health
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When you think of the words hamburger, ice cream, and pizza the last thing that come to mind is weight loss. But in reality weight loss could be a prospect when eating these foods correctly.

Red meat is definitely not considered a key component to loosing weight, but studies have shown that by eating lean red meat in a low calorie diet can actually help you loose weight. Since meat is so full of protein the hunger subsides after eating a serving of red meat and stays away until the next appropriate meal time. By choosing "extra-lean" meat and lower fat cuts, you can actually do your body a favor by eating a steak or hamburger.

A recent Swedish study has shown that by eating one serving of ice cream a day can actually help you loose weight. There are not any proven speculations to why, but one reason may be due to the combination of the milk and fat in ice cream; helping in weight loss. Not all studies prove the "diary helps weight loss" theory, but there is more positive evidence than negative evidence.

"Many women find that low-fat versions of dairy products like ice cream and cheese just aren't satisfying," she says, "so they may eat a lot of them -- downing hundreds of calories in the process, trying to fulfill their craving -- when just a little bit of the full-fat stuff would have done the trick," says Bonnie Gluck, M.S., R.D., a clinical dietitian at New York Methodist Hospital in New York City.

Normal pizza from the corporate pizza companies is not the only way you can eat pizza. In order to fulfill your guilty craving for pizza, you can make it healthy! Instead of dousing your pizza in mozzarella and pepperoni you can make it with a wheat crust and top it with veggies instead of the normal pepperoni.

So next time you eliminate the idea of eating red meat, ice cream or pizza because of the dreaded calories you can remember there is some positive outcomes for being "unhealthy" once in a while.