Right folks. After having a hypertension blip earlier this year, and dabbling with the 4 hour body diet, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about compatibility etc? Specificially, the DASH diet is the one being promoted to manage hypertension, but there are conflicts with the 4 hour body diet.

Obviously reducing white carbs and increasing veg amounts is fine, but the conflict around levels of protein and fruit is a little confusing.

Any thoughts?

My first thought is that I love these threads 🙂

I’ve decided to try carb cycling… it’s a bit like iDiet but different.

I looked at changing my diet a couple of years ago for a healthier alternative and settled on a…
cereal + 4-5 fruit + yoghurt + honey + coffee for breakfast.
lentils/beans + meat + whatever sauce (curry, bolognaise, chili) for lunch
fruit or sardines on toast (homemade bread) for dinner.
No alcohol.
The idea being that the more natural and being homemade the better.
The weight loss was dramatic, it’s stayed off, I eat a lot more healthily.
I found that strict adherence to the iDave regime wasn’t perfect for me, the addition of fruit gave me the extra oomph I was looking for.
Look at sensible eating and cutting the crap out as a start.
don simon 1,81cm and 68kg and more or less happy (except on windy days).

the conflict around levels of protein and fruit is a little confusing

Isn’t that the idea of these dietslifestyles? To confuse you? 🙂

safest bet is to go with the medical consensus. However diet and the role of sugars and fats in illhealth is an area of contention even in the medical establishment.

Personally I think a high protein diet is not helpfull.

geoff – where is the conflict with protein?

No alcohol = BORING

Personally I think a high protein diet is not helpfull.

I totally agree, I’m pretty sure that neither the iDave diet or the 4hr body are high protien diets due to the high level of carbohydrates included in the diets lifestyles.
Talk about the blind leading the blind. 🙄

I’m sure iDave will be along soon, just as soon as he finishes playing with his inflatable toy.

geoff – where is the conflict with protein?

I think I may have misundertstood this bit 😳

I *thought* that 4 Hour Body diet allowed as much protein as you liked, but that’s not strictly the case.

Sorry for the confusion.

No worries, I only skim read the DASH thing… don’t think there’s a diet in the world* that says eating lean protein, ideally fishy stuff, is a bad thing.

*Except for silly Vegetarian nonsense.

You can eat as much protein as you want, but with it you have to eat at least as many veges and some legumes. If you fill up on beans and protein without the veges, (IME) you don’t lose anywhere near as much weight (if any at all)

HTH