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This sidebar describes several popular diet plans that are currently promoted. This information can help you appreciate the benefits of the Whole Foods Weight Loss Eating Plan:

 Very-low-carb diet: This eating plan significantly restricts carbs and is intended to induce ketosis in most people. The Whole Foods Weight Loss Eating Plan doesn’t induce ketosis.

 Atkins Diet: This diet, which resurfaces about every 25 years, starts with an induction phase designed to induce ketosis and then gradually moves the person to higher carbs.

 Keto Diet: The Ketogenic Diet or Keto Diet as it’s commonly known is a low-carbohydrate, high-fat dieting plan that has been used for centuries to treat hard-to-control epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats (ketones) rather than carbs, which forces the body into ketosis.

 Paleo Diet: The Paleolithic Diet or Paleo Diet as it’s commonly known states that because humanity’s genetics and anatomy have changed very little since the Stone Age, people should eat foods available during that time to promote good health. Your diet should be based on whole, unprocessed foods. Meats, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables are all acceptable in the Paleo Diet. Grains aren’t.

 Intermittent fasting: This eating pattern cycles between brief periods of fasting and eating. The fasting period consists of no food or significant calorie reduction alternating with periods of unrestricted eating. The most common regimens are fasting on alternate days, for whole days with a specific frequency per week, or during a set time frame such as eating only within an eight-hour window each day.

These weight-loss plans have a common feature. Even though their starting points tend to vary, they all restrict refined and processed carbs. So, your weight loss is not only from your carb intake, but it’s also from the absence of refined and processed carbs. Even though these plans can yield a significant weight loss in the beginning, they all eventually fail. Why? Because refined and processed carbs are so pervasive in the western diet and so persuasively advertised, they’ll eventually creep back into your daily eating. Before you know it, you’ve lost control and your hunger has become ravenous. None of the given plans have taught you how to control those processed foods. That’s where the Whole Foods Weight Loss Eating Plan differs. It not only shows you how to reduce your intake of those foods, but also how to keep them at bay.