Best Diet 2016: TLC Diet - What You Need To Know

Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Diet or TLC Diet is one of the most popular diet programs among health conscious people today. The main goal of this diet program is cut as much cholesterol as possible. According to US Health News, this method will help people lower their bad low density lipoprotein cholesterol by up to 10 percent in less than 2 months.

In the recent ranking of the website's best overall diets, TLC ranked number two. It is second only to DASH diet, which is developed to help people control their high blood pressure.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources has released a guide to a proper TLC diet program in December 2005 to help Americans who are suffering with high blood cholesterol.

Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes program includes physical activity, diet and weight management. A medical treatment is sometimes included in the program to reduce blood cholesterol level.

Many people are not really familiar with the TLC method and, in an effort to educate people, the agency have released a guide.

To start this program, people should have a calorie level goal of 2,500 per day for men and for women are 1,800. If one decides to lose more weight, he or she can cut down the goal to 1,600 for men and 1,200 for women.

The secret is to consume less high fat dairy like butter and cut fatty meats from your daily diet. There are people who are saying that it is okay to eat anything as long as you work hard at the gym; however, it doesn't work that way using this diet program. One has to say goodbye to meats like salami.

It is also advisable to add 2 grams of plant sterols and stanols, along with at least 10 grams of soluble fiber everyday if the low density lipoprotein cholesterol has not dropped by eight to 10 percent after six weeks in the TLC diet, according to U.S. Health News.

People should not worry about getting enough nutrients because on this diet program, one will be eating variety of fruits, whole grains, vegetables and low-fat products, fish and skin-less poultry.

TLC diet takes quite a work to follow because you will have to make sure you know what you are eating by reading nutrition labels; however, people who have gone through this program are happy with the result. There is also a TLC diet guide available online, which has all the necessary steps to help anybody who would want to try it.