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Pritikin Diet
The Pritikin Diet was often described by Nathan Pritikin, its creator, as “mankind’s original meal plan.” That’s because the focus of the Pritikin diet is unprocessed or minimally processed straight-from-nature foods like fruits, vegetables, legumes (such as black beans and pinto beans), whole grains such as brown rice, starchy vegetables like potatoes and yams, lean [...]
Continue reading...Prison Loaf Diet
24. May 2008
Prison loaf, sometimes called Food loaf, Nutriloaf, Confinement Loaf or Special Management Meal, is a food item sometimes used in prisons as a deterrent to misbehavior. It is similar to meatloaf in texture, but has a wider variety of ingredients, including vegetables, meat, and other ingredients. Some versions may be vegetarian or completely vegan. The [...]
Continue reading...Pollotarian Diet
24. May 2008
Pollotarianism is a neologism to denote a dietary choice, in which a person does not consume mammalian meat such as beef, pork, and lamb, but does consume chicken or other poultry. Pollo-vegetarians tend to include non-flesh animal products such as dairy and eggs in their diet, as well.
Continue reading...Plant Based Diet
24. May 2008
Herbivory is a form of predation in which an organism, known as a herbivore, consumes principally autotrophs such as plants, algae and photosynthesizing bacteria. By that definition, many fungi, some bacteria, many animals, some protists and a small number of parasitic plants can be considered herbivores. However, herbivory is generally restricted to animals eating plants. [...]
Continue reading...Pescetarian Diet
24. May 2008
Pescetarianism is a dietary choice, in which a person — known as a pescetarian — eats the flesh of fish or of other non-mammalian aquatic animals but will not eat the flesh of non-aquatic animals or aquatic mammalian animals. Other animal products like eggs and dairy may be part of a pescetarian diet. Terms like pesco-vegetarianism [...]
Continue reading...Perricone diet
24. May 2008
Perricone is a dermatologist who has written several books, primarily on the subjects of weight loss and maintaining the appearance of youth. He is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, from which he received his MD. He has appeared in two special programs on PBS. He sells his [...]
Continue reading...Paleolithic Diet
24. May 2008
The Paleolithic diet, also popularly known as the paleo diet, caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a dietary regimen which seeks to mimic the diet of wild plants and animals that humans habitually consumed during the Paleolithic, a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with [...]
Continue reading...Ovo-lacto Vegetarian Diet
24. May 2008
A lacto-ovo vegetarian is a vegetarian who does not eat beef, pork, poultry, fish, shellfish or animal flesh of any kind, but is willing to consume cheese, butter, yogurt and eggs. Lacto- means “milk” and ovo- means “egg”. In the Western world lacto-ovo vegetarians are the most common type of vegetarian. Generally speaking, when one uses [...]
Continue reading...Ornish Diet
24. May 2008
The Ornish Diet was developed by Dean Ornish M.D. and first detailed in his book Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease. It is a diet that is specifically formulated to reverse heart disease but has recently been used as a weight-loss program. This vegetarian diet emphasizes low-fat, filling foods, including legumes and other [...]
Continue reading...Organic Food Diet
24. May 2008
Organic foods are produced according to certain production standards, meaning they are grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, human waste, or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without ionizing radiation or food additives. Livestock are reared without the routine use of antibiotics and without the use of growth hormones. In most [...]
Continue reading...Optimal Diet
24. May 2008
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
24. May 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
24. May 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
24. May 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
24. May 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 [...]
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24. May 2008
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