There’s something special about the diets of people who live in the countries along the Mediterranean Sea. In fact, they’ve been the subject of intensive research for more than 50 years, ever since Ancel Keys first organized his legendary, post-World War II Seven Countries Study, a state-of-the-art research project for its time.
Contrary to the belief that people who burn a lot of calories are less vulnerable to gaining weight, a new study finds they and slow burners alike tend to put on pounds during the sweets-filled holiday season.
Adding fruit to your diet is an excellent thing to do, but it isn’t always the easiest thing to do with our busy lives. Who has the time anymore? Here are tips to help you add some fruit into your diet and improve your overall health with fruit.
Basically a vegetarian diet, the raw food diet promotes eating and drinking ‘living’ foods. Living foods and juices contain the maximum amount of fibre found in raw produce, fibre that can be lost in processing. Such foods are easily metabolised and tend to be lower in calories than the average diet.
For many of us, loosing weight is a continuous battle. We have tried everything to lose weight and even if sometimes we loose a few pounds, they are recovered again after a few weeks later.
If you look for a diet to follow, you probably will find thousands, but which one deserves your efforts? Well, most of the time we follow the diet that we know that it worked with someone we know.
Fat loss is something which concerns us all, and we need information about different diets, how they work, and if they are safe or a risk to our health. The Grapefruit Diet has its advantages if you want to lose a huge amount of weight in a very short time. But be very careful, as losing weight too quickly can be dangerous, and the weight can come back on very quickly after a diet like this.
There are so many benefits to eating a diet rich in fish, veggies and olive oil, a new study by a team at Rush University Medical Center shows that these aren't limited to your body, but may also include keeping your brain sharp as well. The Mediterranean diet (an eating plan, so common to Mediterranean cultures) has been already shown it can cut the chance of developing heart disease and diabetes, as well as certain forms of cancer. Now we're seeing that this diet might also have incredible benefits of the mind.
Keeping a meal diary gives you the history of what you have eaten, so if you lose or gain weight, you know why. It helps you identify the problem and solve it. Without having a history of what you ate, you won’t know what the problems are. Food records will help you become a real manager of your weight
For some dieters losing weight is an ongoing battle, however with the Paleo diet foods eating plan, weight loss is a natural process with the added bonus of a healthier lifestyle and added vitality. Grain, dairy, legumes and all related products are excluded from the Pale diet food plan.
What does 'Being in the Zone' involve and more importantly, is it a healthy weight loss regime? Barry Sears, as creator of The Zone Diet was of the opinion that if a person eats carbohydrate, protein and fat in the right ratio of 40:30:30 then he or she will improve his or her health, weight, and performance, because certain hormones will be balanced and therefore be in the preferred "zone."