Optimal Diet
The Optimal Diet is a high fat, low carbohydrate diet developed by Polish doctor Jan Kwasniewski. The diet uses specific proportions between proteins, fats and carbohydrates (typically a 1: 3 : 0.8 weight ratio), and it emphasizes foods with “high biological value”, such as butter, lard, egg yolks, pork meat and bone stocks. The Optimal Diet [...]
Continue reading...Okinawa Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Okinawa diet is a nutrient-rich, low calorie diet from the indiginous people of the Ryūkyū Islands. In addition, a commercially promoted weight-loss diet (which bears the same name) has also been made based on this standard diet of the Islanders.
Continue reading...No Grain Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The No Grain Diet is a book and diet plan developed by osteopathic physician Joseph Mercola. He claims that over consumption of grains and sugars is the cause of many degenerative diseases, such as diabetes and cancer as well as obesity. Recently, he is calling this diet the “Total Health Program” including a 3-stage “Nutrition [...]
Continue reading...Negative Calorie Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Negative calorie food is used to refer to foods that require more energy to digest than they provide nutritionally. No food can literally have negative calories in the sense of not releasing energy when digested. However, some foods provide very few calories, and the body may use up more energy to digest them than it [...]
Continue reading...Natural Foods Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Natural foods are foods that are minimally processed. Natural foods do not include ingredients such as refined sugars, refined flours, milled grains, hydrogenated oils, sweeteners, food colors, or flavorings. Sucanat, stevia, raw honey, agave syrup and maple syrup are sweeteners often used in place of white sugar in a natural foods diet. Sea salt is also [...]
Continue reading...Montignac Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Montignac diet is a weight-loss diet that was popular in the 1990s, mainly in Europe. It was invented by Frenchman Michel Montignac, an international executive for the pharmaceutical industry, who, like his father, suffered from excess weight during his youth. His method is aimed at people wishing to lose weight efficiently and lastingly, reduce [...]
Continue reading...Master Cleanse Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Master Cleanse, also known as the Lemon Cleanse and the Maple Syrup Diet, was created by Stanley Burroughs in 1941. Proponents believe it is a detoxification program that aids in the removal of harmful toxins from within the body. Stanley Burroughs, the creator of the diet, was convicted of murder, which was later overturned, [...]
Continue reading...Macrobiotic Diet
Saturday, May 24, 2008
A Macrobiotic diet (or Macrobiotics) is a dietary regimen that involves eating grains as a staple food supplemented with other foodstuffs such as vegetables and beans, and avoiding the use of highly processed or refined foods. Macrobiotics also address the manner of eating, by recommending against overeating, and requiring that food be chewed thoroughly before [...]
Continue reading...Low Protein Diet
Friday, May 23, 2008
A low-protein diet is a diet in which people reduce their intake of protein. A low-protein diet is often prescribed to people with kidney or liver disease. A low-protein diet would include foods such as vegetables, starches such as bread, cereals, and pasta. For even less protein the best food would be fruits, fats and sugars. [...]
Continue reading...Low-Carbohydrate Diet
Friday, May 23, 2008
Low-carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption usually for weight control. Foods high in digestible carbohydrates are limited or replaced with foods containing a higher percentage of proteins and fats. The precise definition of low-carbohydrate diets varies greatly. The term is most commonly used to refer to ketogenic diets, i.e. diets [...]
Continue reading...Living / Raw Foods Diet
Friday, May 23, 2008
Raw foodism is a lifestyle promoting the consumption of uncooked, unprocessed, and often organic foods as a large percentage of the diet. Depending on the type of lifestyle and results desired, raw food diets may include a selectıon of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds (including sprouted whole grains), eggs, fish, meat, and unpasteurized dairy products [...]
Continue reading...Lacto Vegetarianism Diet
Friday, May 23, 2008
A lacto-vegetarian diet is a vegetarian diet which includes dairy products such as milk, cheese, yogurt, butter, cream, and kefir but excludes eggs. The origin of “lacto” is the Latin word for milk, [lac, lactis]. Within Indian cultures this diet is often what is meant by the term “vegetarian.” Lacto-vegetarians choose to consume dairy products, but [...]
Continue reading...Kosher Diet
Friday, May 23, 2008
Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus, כַּשְרוּת) refers to Jewish dietary laws. Food in accord with halakha (Jewish law) is termed kosher in English, from the Hebrew term kashér, meaning “fit” (in this context, fit for consumption by Jews according to traditional Jewish law). Orthodox Jews may not consume non-kosher food (but there are no restrictions [...]
Continue reading...Junk Food Diet
Friday, May 23, 2008
Junk food is food that is unhealthy and/or has little or no nutritional value. The term is believed to have been coined by Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in 1972.[1] The term has since come into common usage. Junk food contains high levels of refined sugar, white flour, trans [...]
Continue reading...Joel Fuhrman Diet
Friday, May 23, 2008
Joel Fuhrman is an American family medicine physician and author. He maintains a medical practice in Flemington, New Jersey, and specializes in treating some major illnesses through nutrition and changes in diet. He is also a former member of the United States World Figure Skating Team.
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