Rainbow Diet and Weight Loss

Here are some simple guidelines; high fibre, low fat, low salt, low sugar, complex carbs, five fruit and vegetables a day, and avoid processed foods. Each meal should be approximately 80% plant based and no more than 20% animal based. Your plate should look like a rainbow with lots of colours on it.
A diet [...]

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The Rainbow Diet is the balanced diet, not only does it advises us against simple carbs and promotes whole grains it promotes variety. By eating variety, one is less likely to be deficient in essential nutrients because again you are eating all the different fruits, vegetables, spices and herbs. We apply rainbow concept to fruits [...]

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The predominant element that makes up most of the simple carbohydrates is white refined sugar. When ingested, simple carbohydrates rapidly raise blood sugar and insulin levels and then get rapidly absorbed by small intestine into the bloodstream. Due to high blood sugar levels, the brain signals the pancreas to secrete large amount of insulin to [...]

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DIET IS DIFFERENT FOR ALL OF US
You may wonder why none of these diets works well for us. The answer is very simple – we are all different. Each of us has a unique metabolism, needs, genes, medical histories and health problems. What works for one may not necessarily work for the other, however, all [...]

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Here is an explanation of the Simple / Complex Carbs issue, the New Scientist magazine published a study of the Atkins Diet that came to the conclusion that simply cutting down on carbohydrates will reduce the amount you eat.
Nutrition is being challenged [...]

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