List Of All Possible Diets

[Rasputin]

Well-known nutritional diets:

Abs Diet

Atkins diet

Banta Diet

Best Bet Diet

Blood Type diet

Body for Life

Brazilian Emagrece Sim Diet

Breatharian diet

Buddhist diet

Cabbage soup diet

Calorie restriction

The Cambridge Diet

Candida control diet

Cretan diet

Diabetic diet

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension or the DASH Diet

Dr. Hay diet

Detox diet

Diet for a New America by John Robbins

eDiets

Fat Resistance Diet

Fat Smash Diet, The

Feingold diet

Fit for Life diet

Food combining diet

Fruitarian diet

Joel Fuhrman diet

Slimming World diet

Gerson diet

Gluten-free, casein-free diet

Glycemic Index diet

The Graham Diet

Grapefruit diet

Hacker's diet

Hallelujah diet

High protein diet

Hunza diet

Jenny Craig

Junk food diet

Kosher diet

Lacto vegetarianism

Lean for Life

Liquitarian diet

Living foods diet

Low-carbohydrate diet

Low-protein diet

Macrobiotic diet

Master Cleanse

Mediterranean diet

Montignac diet

Muslim diet

Natural Foods Diet

Natural Hygiene diet

Negative calorie diet

Okinawa diet

Organic food diet

Ornish Diet

Ovo-lacto vegetarian diet

Paleolithic diet

Perricone diet

No-Grain Diet by Dr. Mercola

Pesco/Pollo vegetarianism

PersonalDiets

Pritikin diet

Rastafarian diet

Scarsdale Diet

Sex Diet

Shangri-La Diet

South Beach diet

Raw food diet

Raw vegan diet

Rice Diet/Duke University diet

Sonoma diet

Sugar Busters

The Diet Smart Plan

The Optimal Diet

Total Wellbeing Diet (developed by CSIRO)

Vegan diet

Vegetarian diet

Warrior Diet

Weigh Down diet

Weight Watchers

Zone diet

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Abs Diet

The Abs Diet is a nutritional diet created by Men's Health Magazine editor David Zinczenko.

The diet emphasizes the so-called "Twelve Power Foods".

Twelve power foods
Almonds and other nuts
Beans and legumes
Spinach and other green veggies
Dairy (fat-free/low-fat)
Instant oatmeal (no sugar added)
Eggs
Turkey/lean meat (steak, chicken and fish)
Peanut butter (all-natural, and limit to 3 tablespoons per day max)
Olive oil
Whole grain bread/cereal
Extra protein (whey) powder
Raspberries and other berries

Eat often foods
Apples
Asparagus
Avocados
Bananas
Brown rice
Canadian Bacon
Canola oil
Citrus fruit and juices
Fruit juice (sugar-free)
Lean game (ostrich, etc.)
Garlic
Lentils
Mushrooms
Melons
Peaches
Peanut oil
Peas
Peppers
Popcorn (fat-free)
Shellfish (bivalves)
Soup (broth-based)
Sunflower seeds
Sweet potatoes

Eat occasionally
Baked potatoes
Beer (light)
Butter (light)
Chocolate
Coffee
Lamb
Lasagna
Lunchmeat
Macaroni
Margarine
Nuts
Pudding
French fries (only if not cooked in vegetable oil)
Graham crackers
Granola (low fat)
Ham
Honey
Ice cream (low fat)
Jam and marmalade
Pork tenderloin
Rice
Sauerkraut
Sorbet
Sherbet
Veal
White wine
Frozen yogurt

[Rasputin]

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/80/5/1175, "Dietary fats, carbohydrate, and progression of coronary atherosclerosis in postmenopausal women" and http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/80/5/1102 , "Saturated fat prevents coronary artery disease? An American paradox."

The 22 May 2003, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published two scientific, randomized studies comparing standard low-fat diets to low-carbohydrate diets such as the Atkins Diet. In both studies, subjects lost more weight on the low-carbohydrate plans at 6-months but not at 1-year. The editors noted that "Adherence was poor and attrition was high in both groups. Longer and larger studies are required to determine the long-term safety and efficacy of low-carbohydrate, high-protein, high-fat diets."

A research study carried out by the Weight and Eating Disorders Program at the University of Pennsylvania, reported in May 2003 that the Atkins diet raised levels of HDL (or "good") cholesterol by an average of 11% and reduced the amount of triglycerides in the bloodstream by 17%. This counters one of the chief criticisms of Atkins' approach, which is that cholesterol is raised by eating fatty foods and meat.

In another study, conventional dieters' HDL cholesterol raised by 1.6% while their triglyceride levels improved. Weight loss was also statistically greater in the Atkins dieters after three and six months compared with the conventional dieters (although this did not remain statistically significant after a year). The study followed the diets of 63 obese men and women.

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Best Bet Diet

The Best Bet Diet is a proposal from the Direct-MS charity to improve the outcome of multiple sclerosis. Currently a clinical trial is being performed to test its effectivity . The Best Bet Diet has become popular in the Multiple Sclerosis world.

Philosophy
The Best Bet Diet is a little like the song from The Singing Detective: "Accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative". Eating the wrong food is thought to lead to a lack of the nutrients that help to keep your immune system in control, and the wrong food can also cause the immune system to attack your body.

Adherents therefore cut out the wrong stuff (eliminate the negative) and add some of the right stuff. The diet is dairy-free, gluten-free and egg-free. It's also yeast restrictive, sugar restrictive and low in saturated fat. There's a list of supplements you're also advised to take to accentuate the positive.

People with Multiple Sclerosis say how much better they feel on this diet - less tired and fewer relapses. And if you look on the positive side of things, it could actually be quite palatable - lots of white meat, fish, fruit and vegetables. Some people also say that tequila is OK too.

Critics of the diet, argue that there is no scientific evidence that consuming dairy,eggs,yeast or gluten has a negative impact on people with ms. They also say that the diet is so restrictive, that people on it are at risk of going short of vital nutrients. They also point out to the lack of scientific studies done on the effects of such a diet on a person with Multiple Sclerosis


Description

The basis is:

Eat fruits and vegetables for carbohydrates and micro-nutrients
Eat fish and skinless breast of chicken and turkey, for protein
Eat extra virgin olive oil for fats
Avoid all dairy, grains (except rice), legumes
Avoid all allergenic foods, which are identified by skin and ELISA tests
Avoid all red meat and margarine

They also propose the following supplements:

1. Grape seed extract 2 capsules/day
2. VitaminD3 2000 IU/day in summer and 4000 IU/day in winter
3. Calcium 1200 mg/day
4. Vitamin A 5000 IU/day
5. 10 grams salmon oil
6. Vitamin B-complex 50 mg/day
7. 500 mcg of B-12
8. 1 g of vitamin C
9. 400 IU of vitamin E
10. up to 750 mg of magnesium (a good Ca/Mg ratio is 2:1)
11. 25 mg of zinc
12. 1 mg of copper
13. 200 mcg of selenium
14. Manganese 20 mg/day
15. up to 5 g of evening primrose oil or borage oil
16. 4 capsules of acidophilus
17. 4 capsules of enzymes
18. 500 - 1000 mg of Lecithin
19. Ginkgo biloba 120 mg/day
20. Co-enzyme Q10 60 mg/day

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junk food diet?!

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Junk food diet

Junk food is a term describing food that is perceived to be unhealthy or having poor nutritional value, according to Food Standards Agency. The term is believed to have been coined by Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in 1972. The term has since become common usage.

Junk food typically contains high levels of fat, salt or sugar and numerous food additives such as monosodium glutamate and tartrazine; at the same time, it is lacking in proteins, vitamins and fiber, among others. It is popular with suppliers because it is relatively cheap to manufacture, has a long shelf life and may not require refrigeration. It is popular with consumers because it is easy to purchase, requires little or no preparation, is convenient to consume and has lots of flavor. Consumption of junk food is associated with obesity, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and dental cavities. There is also concern about the targeting of marketing at children.

What constitutes a junk food may be confusing and, according to critics, includes elements of class snobbery and moral judgement. For example, fast food such as hamburgers, and French fries supplied by companies such as McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut are often perceived as junk food whereas the same meals supplied by more up-market outlets such as Pizza Express or Nando's are not despite often having the same or worse nutritional content.Other foods such as Foie Gras, roast potatoes and bread are not considered junk food despite having limited nutritional content. Similarly, Breakfast cereals are often regarded as healthy but may have high levels of sugar, salt and fat.

Many critics believe that junk food is not harmful when consumed as part of a balanced diet and some believe that the term should not be used at all.

Should a child start consuming junk foods exclusively, as opposed to having a balanced diet, their intake of high-protein-vitamins-roughage diet would substantially decrease and intake of milk and healthy fruit juices would likely be replaced by soft drinks. This would potentially lead to a deficiency of calcium, milk being a rich source of calcium, resulting in weakening of bones.

Some types of chips that are said to be "junk food" may actually be partially beneficial because they may contain polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats. However, since they are fats, the intake of these should be kept to a minimum. It should also be understood that the detrimental effects of the empty calories may outweigh the benefits of the unsaturated fats. These foods tend to be high in sodium, which may contribute in causing hypertension (high blood pressure) in some people.


The term has become common usage amongst many different groups over the years, including opponents of fast food industries and environmentalists.

During 2006 in the United Kingdom following a high profile media campaign by the chef Jamie Oliver and a threat of court action from the National Heart Forum, the UK advertising regulator and competition authority, Ofcom, launched a consultation on advertising of foods to children.The Food Standards Agency was one of many respondents.As a result a ban on advertising during children's television programmes and programmes aimed at young people was announced.The ban also includes marketing using celebrities, cartoon characters and health or nutrition claims.

[dimpleromani]

I can't imagine that there are so many types of diet. I am only familiar with Atkins diet, south beach diet and vegetarian diet. Hope I can have a chance to know more information with other diet procedure.