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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / May 2006The Da Vinci Diet - (Woman's World Magazine - of course)
This month, Woman's World Magazine features "The Da Vinci Diet" as this month (or is it week) special insider tip for the lady readers to gain more and better diet secrets and melt away pounds. Even though there appears to be serious arithmetic in what follows, you can just view it superficially.... (What do you expect from Woman's World Magazine anyway?) THE DA VINCI DIET --- WHAT IT IS 30% Fat, 20% Protein and 50% Carbohydrates. That is pretty much it. Well, there is the now standard "Good Fats and Good Carbs Only" clause. ------------------------------------------------- THE ODD TIE TO DA VINCI Secret clues ... Da Vinci knew about both the golden ratio and Fibonacci Numbers. Fibonacci was an earlier Italian (around 1200 AD) mathematician and his name has been associated with a series of numbers. 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34, ......... 6765, 10946 ..... Add the first two numbers to get the third 0+1=1 Add the last two numbers to get the fourth 1+1=2 Add the last two numbers to get the NEXT... 1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, 5+8=13 , 8+13=21, 13+21=34 ....... and on and on. The Greeks knew about the golden ratio which can be written as : Golden Ratio = 1.61803 and it is easier if we just stop here talking about it and take it as a given. For big (Fibonacci)numbers the ratio of the (N+1)th Fibonacci number divided by the Nth Fibonacci number approaches the golden ratio -- exactly (well, converges to the golden ratio). 34/21 = 1.61905 which is a fair approximation to 1.61803... Da Vinci Diet Connection ?????? The ratio of the Fat to the Protein is 30/20 = 1.500 which is "sort of" an approximation to the golden ratio 1.61803. The ratio of the Carbohydrates to the Fat is 50/30 = 1.600 which is also "sort of" an approximation of the golden ratio 1.61803. So, because of the golden ratio and Fibonacci numbers being known to Da Vinci and sometimes used by him..... we can call the 30 Fat, 20 Protein, 50 Carbohydrates the Da Vinci diet. [Sure we can] :-) This diet magically incorporates both the Fibonacci numbers and the golden rule. Therefore it is great. You will lose a gazillion pounds on it. ------------------------------ Man, talk about really stretching a bunch of unrelated facts to make a catchy sounding diet which coincides with an unrelated trend.  Signature1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the book 2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book 3) Don't Diet Without Supplemental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins book 4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other) >This diet magically incorporates both the Fibonacci numbers and the >golden rule. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Man, talk about really stretching a bunch of unrelated facts to make a >catchy sounding diet which coincides with an unrelated trend. LOL! Well, I think those women's magazines have to come up with a new diet about every other month. And tying a diet into the latest hyped movie is as good a way as any to sell magazines, I guess. No, this diet isn't going to work for much of anyone. But then none of those from previous months' covers do either. The point is to sell magazines, and for that it will likely be effective. HG LOL - I agree, I think it's actually kind of lame that they just wanted to make some kind of tie-in so they could sell more magazines because the movie came out this month. And it probably will sell more, because people will be interested in how it ties into Da Vinci, without really paying attention to what the diet is. It doesn't sound like it would work exceptionally well, certainly not better than anything else. >>This diet magically incorporates both the Fibonacci numbers and the >>golden rule. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > HG The whole diet business, for many years, has been full of sleeze and tricks such as this "Da Vinci Diet". I find the whole business pretty disgusting. And then, there are bunches of false experts of every kind. For the most part, it doesn't take much more than a business card that says you are an expert in diet to be an expert in diet, at least in the eye of the average citizen. And, we get a lot of "False Information" passing through here, as well as the occasional hate messages that hate one form of dieter for being different. Just being different can bring on the hate. The whole diet thing is unsettling. Jim Signature1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the book 2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book 3) Don't Diet Without Supplemental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins book 4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other) Diet is a lot like religion, lots of faith and disagreement involved. In news:e524gd01k52@enews4.newsguy.com, Jbuch <jbuch@revealed.net> stated | The whole diet business, for many years, has been full of sleeze and | tricks such as this "Da Vinci Diet". [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] | | Jim -- "Some people have twenty years of experience, some people have one year of experience twenty times over." -- Anonymous Signaturehttp://home.swbell.net/bjtexas/SS/ i will gladly pass this on. SignatureDID YOU KNOW? http://home.swbell.net/bjtexas/SS/ > -- > "Some people have twenty years of experience, some people have > one year of experience twenty times over." -- Anonymous Hahaha, yeah the real secret in the paintings is how to stay thin :) |-- |"Some people have twenty years of experience, some people have |one year of experience twenty times over." -- Anonymous Better yet, how about if they put all Americans on the same retirement plan that they give themselves? |
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