Tonight at 6 p.m., the Monticello T.O.P.S. Chapter will hold a forum with Dr. Hassan Abouleish to explain the healthy way to lose weight. The presentation will be at the Wellington School.
The Monticello T.O.P.S. Chapter meets every Monday night at the Wellington School; July marked the group’s one-year mark with group leader Ann Joy.
“When we first started the chapter we all talked about the various diets we had all used over the years,” said Joy. “We all admitted to using some type of Fad Diet, and we all had to admit that the weight loss had not been permanent, regardless of what Fad Diet we had followed.
Dr. Hassan Abouleish
“We all knew we had to do something different,” noted Joy, “not use a fad diet, but, build a healthy lifestyle that we could continue to use for years to come.”
That led to the group approaching Dr. Abouleish for some professional guidance.
If you look up Fad Diet on Wikipedia you’ll find a definition of a weight loss program that becomes popular (often quickly) and then may fall out of favor (sometimes just as quickly). Some of the Fad Diets that have been popular at one time or another are the Mayo Clinic Diet, the Grapefruit Diet, (supposed to burn fat quickly, but has serious side effects with some medications), 17-day diet, Atkins (a huge phenomenon in the 1970s), the Dukan (came from France and quickly shot to popularity), and the South Beach Diet (the South Beach Diet continues to be one of the biggest selling diet books of all time) just to name a few.
Dr. Abouleish will discuss fat intake versus carbohydrate intake, versus protein intake, as well as the good and bad fats.
“I want people to learn why they don’t succeed when they use a fad diet,” said Abouleish, “It is much more important to learn a healthy lifestyle and develop a healthy weight loss and exercise plan.”
Dr. Abouleish will be closing his lecture with a question-and-answer period.
For more information on either the forum or on Monticello’s T.O.P.S. Chapter, call Ann Joy at 538-7123.
