Monday, July 23, 2012

The Modern Review Diet




I downloaded the Modern Diet Review by John Barban of Fitness Black Book. Free download source is also located on Fitness Black Book's Website. The author, John Barban, maintains a blog where you can read more of his work. In summary of the book of TFBB Rusty Moore, said Barban who have worked successfully for some time in the fitness industry, the attack on him in my mind.

The Barban rest of the modern diet into seven types: four of them can work, two of which are bad, and one has not been evaluated. First, I will discuss the conclusion of John Barban and then critique his explanation of the diet respectively.


Barban says that all boil down to calorie calorie diet reduced out. He said that the less processed foods can provide the most satisfaction [read nutritional] calories per, but this is a minor factor compared to your caloric deficit.

    There is no such thing as 'good' foods and 'bad' foods. There is only food and how much you choose to eat.
    Find a style diet that helps you eat less food without nuts is the key to total weight loss forever.

I strongly disagree with this. I believe the quality of food and nutrition is the number one factor in weight loss and health consequences. Volume of food / calories is of secondary importance and the amount needed depends on the quality of food. While I agree with many things Barban said in this report, I could not agree with his conclusions. I would encourage you to read this report, but take with a grain of salt.

Diet categories


  •     Low fat (potentially better)
  •     Low carbohydrate (potentially better)
  •     Intermittent fasting (potentially better)
  •     Balanced nutrient ratio (potentially better)
  •     Cleansing / Detox (bad)
  •     Blood type (bad)
  •     Paleo (unknown)

Based on the findings of Barban is a low-carbohydrate and low-carb diet but it works very poorly. They work by decreasing caloric intake and neither showed a significant decrease in body weight after one year, but the low-carbohydrate diet showed weight loss after three months and so is the improvement of low-fat diet. I think both of these diets are starvation diets that only work as long as you lack or scarcity of food through force. Barban follows the standard party line that more bad fats (saturated and Trans) and that only the good unsaturated fats. I think this is not true based on the lessons I learned from the Weston A. Price Foundation and Eat Fat and Grow Slim. Animal fats are an important part of your diet (although olive and coconut oil can replace them to some extent) and are very healthy. You cannot eat too much fat of healthy animals.

Intermittent fasting diet has been proven to work for a year. I follow the Warrior Diet combinations (version intermittent fasting) and guidelines Weston Price Foundation, so this is where I have the most experience. Barban approves of this method say that intermittent fasting has been shown to maintain weight loss over one year to prove its effectiveness. He attributes this to cut calories because people will often skip a meal or meals other day when they see their weight. I disagree with him about intermittent fasting works only because of the lack of calories. Ori Hofmekler has shown that the metabolism increases by intermittent fasting so that you will lose weight even though caloric intake remained constant.

John Barban is your favorite type of nutritionally balanced diet because it trains you to eat a balanced diet (read: calories count / read the nutrition label) and prevent the need to eliminate food groups from your diet. Low carb diets and low fat dieters fail because it cannot give up eating food that he loves. This allows a reduction in calorie diet without removing the food. If you believe a diet boils down to calories in than calories out equation, this is the best diet for you. I think this diet has the potential but I would not support it during intermittent fasting.

Cleansing and detox diets that differ in the former attempt to clean your intestinal tract while the latter tries to clean the toxins from your body. Barban said that the lack of scientific evidence and does not make sense logically. Intestinal tract can be seen in the video and it seems most people do not have the intestinal accumulation. I have not looked into this, so I will not comment on it. John went on to say that the concept of toxic vagueness and that your body naturally detoxes itself and there's nothing you can do to help the process. While I have not investigated a detox diet, I do not agree with the conclusion that Barban. Liver and kidney detoxification can clear more quickly if they are healthy. They are a filter and might need to get cleaned up and rested from time to time. I do not know what a "poison" is good but we get a lot of toxic substances that accumulate in our body such as mercury in Great Lakes fish. There is much anecdotal evidence that foods and beverages such as kvass bit can accelerate the rate of detoxification, but I'm not sure if there are scientific studies have investigated this.

John Barban said the blood group diet an interesting idea with no basis in fact. People all over the world have different blood types and different and healthy diet. Barban probably right about the blood type, but I would guess that there is a genetic component to what makes a successful diet. Overall, I agree with Barban that the blood type diet is not working even though I have not studied this issue thoroughly.

No studies have been conducted on ancient diet, so Barban doesn't give recommendations on this diet. He said that the Paleo diet seems to be a combination of intermittent fasting and nutritional balanced diet.

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