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| x Dieting |
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Dieting is the practice of ingesting food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight. In most cases dieting is used in combination with physical exercise to lose weight in those who are overweight or obese. Some athletes...
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| x Atkins Nutritional Approach |
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The Atkins diet, officially called the Atkins Nutritional Approach, is a low-carbohydrate diet created by Dr Robert Atkins from a diet he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association and used to resolve his own overweight condition. He...
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| x The 100-Mile Diet |
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The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating (or Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally) is a non-fiction book written by Canadian writers Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon. In the book, the authors recount their experiences,...
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| x Abs Diet |
The Abs Diet is a nutritional diet created by Men's Health Magazine editor David Zinczenko. The diet incorporates an exercise regimen and is designed to be implemented as a life-style change.
The diet emphasizes the addition of muscle mass as a...
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| x Alkaline diet |
The Alkaline diet (also known as the alkaline ash diet, alkaline acid diet and the acid alkaline diet) is a dietary protocol based on the consumption of foods which burn to leave an alkaline residue. Minerals containing elements like calcium, iron,...
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| x Best Bet Diet |
The Best Bet Diet is an experimental diet for the treatment of multiple sclerosis￢ﾀﾎ created by Ashton Embry, Ph.D. of Alberta, Canada. Embry is also the founder of the non-profit DIRECT-MS organization.
As of 2007, the first clinical trial...
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| x Blood type diet |
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The blood type diet is a diet advocated by Peter D'Adamo, a naturopathic physician, and outlined in his book Eat Right 4 Your Type. D'Adamo's claim is that ABO blood type is the most important factor in determining a healthy diet, and he promotes...
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Buddhist cuisine is an East Asian cuisine which is followed by some believers of Buddhism. It is primarily vegetarian, in order to keep with the general Buddhist precept of ahimsa (non-violence).
Vegetarian cuisine is known as zhāicài ("(Buddhist)...
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| x Cabbage soup diet |
The Cabbage soup diet is a radical weight loss diet designed around heavy consumption of a low-calorie cabbage soup over the time of seven days. It is generally considered a fad diet, in that it is designed for short-term weight-loss and requires no...
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| x The Cambridge Diet |
The Cambridge Diet is a weight management programme ranging from 415 to 1500 kcal/day. It is manufactured in the UK and complies with all current UK and EU legislation, guidance and directives (1) (2) (3). The Diet is available in more than 20...
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| x Cookie diet |
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Cookie diet refers to a special low-calorie diet based on a hunger-controlling meal replacement in the form of a cookie. There are a number of cookie diets currently on the market, such as Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet, Smart for Life and Hollywood...
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| x Crash diet |
A crash diet is a diet which is extreme in its nutritional deprivations, typically severely restricting calorie intake. It is meant to achieve rapid weight loss and may differ from outright starvation only slightly. They are not meant to last for...
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| x The Longevity Diet |
The CRON-diet (Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition) is a nutrient-rich, very low calorie diet developed by Roy Walford, Lisa Walford, and Brian M. Delaney. The CRON-diet involves calorie restriction in the hope that the practice will improve...
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| x Detox diet |
Detox diet is a term used to describe diets that are regarded by some as having detoxifying effects upon the body by removal of toxins or other contaminants. Proponents offer claims detox diets improve health, energy, vitality, resistance to disease...
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| x Diabetic diet |
The diet most often recommended for people who suffer from diabetes mellitus is high in dietary fiber, especially soluble fiber, but low in fat (especially saturated fat). Patients may be encouraged to reduce their intake of carbohydrates that have...
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| x Diet for a New America |
Diet for a New America is a 1987 book by John Robbins, advocating a "plant-based," vegan diet. Considered by many in the vegan and animal rights movements to be one of the most important books in recent times, Diet for a New America contains Robbins...
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| x Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension |
The DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) is a diet promoted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (part of the NIH, a United States government organization) to control hypertension. A major feature of the plan is limiting...
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| x Dr. Hay diet |
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The Hay Diet is a nutrition method developed by the New York physician William Howard Hay in the 1920s. It claims to work by separating out food groups into those which are "alkaline, acidic and neutral". Acid foods are not combined with the...
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| x Edenic diet |
The Edenic diet is a vegan diet that claims to make a person healthier and holier. It incorporates self-reflection. Followers of the Edenic diet eat only plant-based foods. The diet's name comes from the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden and is...
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| x Elemental diet |
An elemental diet is a diet that proposes the ingestion, or, in more severe cases, use of a gastric feeding tube or intravenous feed of liquidized nutrients, in an easily assimilated form. It is usually composed of amino acids, fats, sugars,...
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| x Elimination diet |
An elimination diet is a method of identifying foods that an individual cannot consume without adverse effects. Adverse effects may be due to food allergy, food intolerance, other physiological mechanisms(such as metabolic or toxins), or a...
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| x The Fat Smash Diet |
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The Fat Smash Diet is the book-length version of the nutrition and fitness regimen that Dr. Ian K. Smith has used to widespread acclaim on VH1’s weight loss reality show, Celebrity Fit Club. The diet aims to change the dieter's "relationship with...
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| x Fatfield Diet |
The Fatfield Diet is a calorie-controlled diet designed to induce healthy weight loss, created in the 1990s by British author and The Sun journalist Sally Ann Voak. The diet was originally devised for a serial feature on the BBC daytime television...
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| x Feingold diet |
The Feingold diet is a food elimination program developed by Ben F. Feingold, MD to treat hyperactivity. It eliminates a number of artificial colors and artificial flavors, aspartame, three petroleum-based preservatives, and (at least initially)...
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| x Fit for Life |
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Fit for Life (FFL) is a diet and lifestyle stemming from the principles of natural hygiene, an offshoot of naturopathic medicine. It is promoted mainly by the American writers Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. As the title of the 1985 book suggests, Fit...
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| x Flexi-vegetarianism |
Flexitarianism is a semi-vegetarian diet focusing on vegetarian food with occasional meat consumption. A self-described flexitarian seeks to decrease meat consumption without eliminating it entirely from his or her diet. There are no guidelines for...
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| x Food combining |
Food combining (also known as trophology), is the term for a nutritional approach that believes in what proponents feel is properly combining foods, as well as beliefs about the proper timing of their consumption. According to its advocates, the...
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| x F-plan |
The F-plan is a high fibre diet designed to induce healthy weight loss, created in the 1980s by British author Audrey Eyton, founder of Slimming Magazine, and based on the work of Denis Burkitt. The F-Plan diet book was in the top ten best selling...
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| x Fruitarianism |
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Fruitarians (or fructarians) are people who, in principle, eat only the fruit of plants.
Some people whose diet is not 100% fruit consider themselves fruitarian if their diet is 75% or more fruit.
Commonly the term "fruit" is used when referring to...
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| x Gerson diet |
The Gerson diet is a diet devised by Dr. Max Gerson (1881 - 1959).
Gerson believed that cancer and other degenerative and autoimmune disease are caused by chronic malfunctions in cell metabolism, and that they can be effectively treated by...
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| x Gluten-free diet |
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A gluten-free diet is a diet completely free of ingredients derived from gluten-containing cereals: wheat (including kamut and spelt), barley, rye, and triticale, as well as the use of gluten as a food additive in the form of a flavoring,...
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| x Gluten-free, casein-free diet |
A gluten-free casein-free diet (or GFCF diet) eliminates intake of the naturally-occurring proteins gluten (found naturally in wheat, barley, spelt, triticale, kamut, rye and possibly oats) and casein (found in milk). The Autism Research Institute...
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| x G.I. Diet |
The Low Glycemic Index Diet was developed by Dr. David J. Jenkins, a professor of nutrition at the University of Toronto and later turned into a successful line of diet books by author and former president of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of...
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| x Graham Diet |
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The Graham diet was invented around 1829 by Sylvester Graham, a self proclaimed "Physiological Reformer". It consisted mainly of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole wheat and high fiber foods, and excluded meat and spices altogether (see...
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| x Grapefruit diet |
The grapefruit diet, also known as the Hollywood diet and erroneously as the Mayo Clinic Diet, is a short-term fad diet that has existed in the United States since at least the 1930s. Specifics of the diet vary widely, but it usually involves eating...
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| x The Hacker's Diet |
The Hacker's Diet is a diet plan created by the founder of Autodesk, John Walker, outlined in an electronic book of the same name, that attempts to aid the process of weight loss by more accurately modeling how calories consumed and calories...
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| x Islamic dietary laws |
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Islamic dietary laws provide a set of rules as to what Muslims eat in their diet and other areas.
Islamic jurisprudence specifies which foods are halāl (lawful) and which are harām (unlawful). This is based on rules found in the Qur'an, the holy...
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| x Hallelujah diet |
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The Hallelujah Diet, also known as The Hallelujah Diet and Lifestyle, was created as an attempt to be a biblically-based diet. It was developed by Rev. George Malkmus, Lit. D. in the 1970s from a dietary regimen he was taught by fellow pastor Lester...
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| x High protein diet |
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A high protein diet is often recommended by bodybuilders and nutritionists to help efforts to build muscle and lose fat. It should not be confused with low-carb diets such as the Atkins Diet, which are not calorie-controlled and which often contain...
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| x Inuit diet |
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Inuit consume a diet of foods that are fished, hunted, and gathered locally. This may include walrus, ringed seal, bearded seal, beluga whale, polar bear, berries, and fireweed. According to Edmund Searles in his article “Food and the Making of...
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| x Israeli Army diet |
The Israeli Army diet was a fad diet that was popular in the 1970s. It was promoted as being based on the diet used by the Israel Defence Forces for new recruits but had no connection with the Israeli Army.
The diet lasted for eight days with the...
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| x Kashrut |
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Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus, כַּשְׁרוּת) is the set of Jewish dietary laws. Food in accord with halakha (Jewish law) is termed kosher in English, from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew term kashér (כָּשֵׁר), meaning "fit" (in this...
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| x Ketogenic diet |
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The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet primarily used to treat difficult-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet mimics aspects of starvation by forcing the body to burn fats rather than...
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| x LEARN diet |
LEARN stands for Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitudes, Relationships, and Nutrition.. The LEARN diet recommends 55% to 60% energy from carbohydrate and less than 10% energy from saturated fat.
The LEARN diet is classified as a low-fat diet along with the...
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| x Lacto vegetarianism |
A lactovegetarian 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]. Cheeses which include animal rennet...
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| x Low-carbohydrate diet |
Low-carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption usually for weight control or for the treatment of obesity. Foods high in digestible carbohydrates (e.g. bread, pasta) are limited or replaced with...
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| x Low-fat diet |
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According to the USDA, a low-fat diet – as the name implies – is a diet that consists of little fat, especially saturated fat and cholesterol, which is thought to lead to increased blood cholesterol levels and heart disease risk. It is imperative...
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| x Low sodium diet |
A low sodium diet is a diet that includes no more than 1,500 to 2,400 mgs of sodium per day. (As an example 1 teaspoon of salt = approx. 2,300 mg sodium.) People who follow a vigorous or moderate exercise schedule are usually advised to limit their...
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| x Low-protein diet |
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,...
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| x Macrobiotic diet |
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A macrobiotic diet (or macrobiotics), from the Greek "macro" (large, long) and "bios" (life), 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...
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| x Medifast Diet |
The Medifast Diet is a dieting system created and marketed by Medifast, Inc., based in Owings Mills, Maryland. The products sold as part of the diet are produced by Jason Pharmaceuticals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Medifast, Inc. It is one of a...
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| x Mediterranean diet |
The modern incarnation of the Mediterranean diet is based upon the traditional dietary patterns of the countries of the Mediterranean Basin. Thus, our understanding of the Mediterranean diet is really a composite of several foods commonly consumed...
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| x Montignac diet |
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, was overweight in his youth....
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| x Natural Foods Diet |
The Natural Foods Diet is the avoidance of all unnatural and refined/processed ingredients. These ingredients include refined sugars, refined flour, milled grains, hydrogenated oils, artificial sweeteners, artificial food colors, artificial...
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| x Negative calorie diet |
A negative calorie food is a food that is purported to require more calories to be digested than it provides. That is, its thermic effect is greater than its calorie content.
However, while the concept is popular in popular dieting guides, there is...
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| x Okinawa diet |
The Okinawa diet is a nutrient-rich, low-calorie diet from the indigenous 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...
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| x The Optimal Diet |
The Optimal Diet (or Optimal Nutrition) 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...
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| x Organic food |
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Organic foods are made according to certain production standards. For the vast majority of human history, agriculture can be described as organic; only during the 20th century was a large supply of new synthetic chemicals introduced to the food...
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| x Ornish Diet |
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...
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| x Lacto-ovo vegetarianism |
A ovo-lacto-vegetarian is a vegetarian who does not eat beef, lamb, pork, poultry, fish, shellfish or animal flesh of any kind, but is willing to consume dairy and egg products.
The terminology stems from the Latin Lacto- meaning "milk", ovo-...
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