Category: Diet Types

Think about it, have you ever seen a fat vegetarian? Probably not. In fact, for most of us, vegetarian is almost synonymous with lean and healthy, isn’t it? And when you start any diet, what’s the first thing the experts tell you? Generally it’s to increase the amounts of vegetables you’re eating and to eat [...]

Overview of what the Atkins, Heller, Goor, Ornish diets are and definitions of the Pritkin Principle, Volumetrics and The Zone diets.

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These days, there is a great  need for overweight Americans to lose those excess pounds. Being healthy would not only lead them to have a healthier lifestyle but it will also literally lighten their load,  and improve their overall well-being.
There is a long  list of dieting options available. There [...]

Do you ever think about how far we’ve diverted from the path of our pre-historic ancestors and their eating patterns? Consider how the earliest humans evolved, and what they ate. They were hunter-gatherers and did not evolve with the characteristics of carnivores. Humans aren’t made to tear animals apart and eat their flesh. When you [...]

You’ve certainly heard the expression many times, “You are what you eat.” Have you ever really thought about what it means? And do you think about it when you’re making food choices?
In some ways, we do become what we eat, literally. Have you ever seen an example of your blood plasma after eating a [...]

You don’t need to diet or slim down or go on a regime to lose weight.
Now THAT is a bold statement indeed, and it contradicts millions of published pages of studies, books, research, intuition and logic. But it is because of the sum of the above mentioned reasons that most people won’t accept it either [...]

The rise in the number of fast foods joints that have a lot of saturated fat in the meals, the use of a lot of refined sugar in sodas and other processed foods and eating food with less fiber have all contributed to the fact that there are more people than before who are classified [...]

Monkeys fed a diet rich in trans-fats – commonly found in fast foods – grew bigger bellies than those fed a diet rich in unsaturated fats, but containing the same overall number of calories. They also developed signs of insulin resistance, which is an early indicator of diabetes.
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With social pressure,  peer pressure and career success being interdependent, we can say it is firmly rooted in modern life.  The old BBC soap “keeping up appearences” has built its success on this premise, alas, life has caught up with fiction, because today, it is probably worse. A sales representative will put himself in debt heavily to buy [...]