Diabetics typically have to take large amounts of medication, however recent studies done in Naples, Italy have proven that adhering to a Mediterranean diet beats diabetes drugs! The Mediterranean diet is full of fresh fruits and vegetables, lean proteins (poultry, nuts, and lots of fish), whole grains, and healthy fats, like olive oil. Sweets and foods high in fat are avoided as much as possible. The caloric intake for this diet is generally between 1,500 and 1,800 per day. Only about half of these calories are attributed to carbohydrates.

Extraordinary results were noticed when the diabetics combined the diet with regular exercise. After several years over half of the group was able to manage their diabetes without any drugs whatsoever. Major weight loss as well as lower cholesterol levels were noted also. Their blood glucose level was now under control and they were at much lower risk for heart disease.

The other group of overweight volunteers were ask to follow your typical low-fat diet for the same amount of time approximately 4 years. While they also noticed some positive results, they were not quite as remarkable. Only about 30% were able to manage their diabetes without the aid of medication. This group didn’t lose nearly as much weight as the group on the Mediterranean diet. Their cholesterol and triglyceride levels only saw minor improvement.

The extraordinary thing is that these two diets were not vastly different. Both are full of fruits and vegetables and low in fat. Yet the results were so radically different! So, the question is, why? Some feel that it could be the drastic cutting of carbs, while others think that maybe incorporating olive oil into their diet helped the body improve their insulin levels. Olive oil is a great replacement for butter or margarine because it decreases your intake of saturated fats. This in turn lowers your blood glucose levels, cholesterol and triglyceride (HDL). Also included in the Mediterranean diet is that super ingredient garlic. It is a powerful antioxidant.

The Mediterranean diet even allows for red wine (another powerful antioxidant) in moderation. Carbs don’t need to be eliminated as bread made from whole grains are part of this diet. You main source of protein should be fish and poultry with red meat limited to once a week. Desserts don’t have to be cut out completely, just use moderation.

While the reasons behind its effectiveness may still be up in the air, the bottom line is that the results speak for themselves. You simply can’t argue with success. Never has being healthy tasted so good! Diabetic drugs lose to the Mediterranean diet each and every time!

Fat Burning Furnace is a highly popular diet and fitness program (one of the most popular in the world) created by Rob Poulos, a former fat guy turned fitness author, and used by thousands of men and women worldwide. Athlean-X is a special workout and nutrition program created by Jeff Cavaliere, noted as one of the Top 50 Trainers in the United States, who was the head strength coach of the New York Mets for 3 years.

Both of these programs are good, have great reviews and testimonials. I have them both. Which one of these two programs is the one for you? Which should you use to achieve your fitness goals?

This depends on what those goals are. Both of these programs can help you burn fat and build lean muscle tissue, both can help you look and feel better, both can help you improve your fitness level.

The question is what’s more important to you. If you just want to lose some weight and get leaner than Fat Burning Furnace is the program with the longer track record and should help you achieve your goals. If you’re interested in becoming more athletic, both in how you look and what you’re able to do, then Athlean-X is the better program.

The reason is that Athlean-X was made for athletes. It’s geared not just to help you look better but to perform better as well. If you want to be a better basketball, baseball, or volleyball player, or any other sport for that matter, the various exercises that Jeff Cavaliere teaches in AthleanX will probably help you more than the more ordinary, general exercises in Fat Burning Furnace.

However, this doesn’t mean that Fat Burning Furnace is not as good as AthleanX. When it comes to explaining nutrition and why you should eat in a certain way, Rob Poulos does a better job. Athlean-X includes detailed meal plans which you can follow but there is no section that reall goes into why those meal plans are the best. At least it doesn’t do so in detail. So, if you want to really learn more about nutrition take Rob Poulos’s program.

AthleanX has more exercises and you can create more interesting and varied workouts. The question is whether you really need more varied and challenging workouts. Fat Burning Furnace is challenging enough to help you burn fat.

It comes down to your goals. Both programs are good.

AnIf you’re someone who has been trying to lose weight for a long time but you keep jumping from diet to diet without reaching your goal weight then you are what is known as a “serial dieter.”

It’s likely that a principle reason you have not been able to stick with those diets in order to reach your goal weight is that they have restricted your calories too much to the point where your body goes into “starvation mode” which slows down your metabolism and makes it very difficult to burn off fat (and very difficult to stick with the diet.)

The Carb Rotation Diet is a different kind of approach that can help you to stop the serial dieting cycle so that you can finally reach your goal weight and keep that weight off for good (this means real permanent weight loss.)

The Carb Rotation Diet can help you to safely lose 15 pounds in just 30 days. If that sounds too good to be true then you should consider some of the amazing results that people have on The Biggest Loser TV show. It’s obvious that large amounts of weight can be lost in a short amount of time with the right approach.

With this diet you will not be counting calories or carbs (no, it’s not a low carb diet) and you won’t be using dangerous diet pills (you should always avoid using diet pills.) Instead you will be getting access to a system that really works for burning fat fast. A system created by a real dietician named Jayson Hunter.