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Planning a Balanced Diet
Make a list of as many foods as possible. Next, take the list and assign each food to a category. The categories you choose should be closely aligned with the standard groups identified on the food pyramid. You might have groups for fruits, vegetables, whole grains, other starches, lean proteins, dairy, other proteins, etc. More →
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Food pyramids myths
A lot of confusing information about nutrition have appeared in the media and certain health circles, making it very hard to know what to eat. So, it's necessary to dispel a few nutrition myths regarding Food pyramids. More →
Six guidelines to healthy eating
Whatever your blood cholesterol level, you can make changes to help lower it or keep it low and reduce your risk for heart disease. These are guidelines for heart-healthy living that the whole family (including children ages 2 and above) can follow. All foods that contain fat are made up of a mixture of saturated and unsaturated fats. Saturated fat raises your blood cholesterol level more than anything else you eat. The best way to reduce blood cholesterol is to choose foods lower in saturated fat. More →
5 Common Diet & Fitness Myths
Losing weight is a science: Calories/energy consumed vs. energy burned. Whenever you eat more calories than you burn, you’ll gain weight. Whenever you eat less calories than you burn, you’ll lose weight. According to all the experts and research there isn’t any other way to lose weight, besides surgery. Remember, if you eat too many calories you will gain weight. It’s best to eat foods that fill you up and satisfy your hunger without adding too many calories. This translates into eating lots of fruits and vegetables while limiting fast food, chips, crackers, and deserts. More →
Steps to a healthier life
The site was created by The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, an organization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture who has released the MyPyramid food guidance system. Along with the new MyPyramid symbol, the system provides many options to help people make healthy food choices and to be active every day. More →
Food guide pyramid
The food pyramid was based on the amount of basic food one needs to eat daily in order to maintain their health. Later it was developed to a pyramid. This pyramid became famous throughout the world, and became an American icon. One issue which this pyramid was believed to have was its rigidness. The new pyramid reflected the concept that a diet should be structured according to an individual's needs. More →
Dieting and health
Food satisfies two distinct needs of the body – energy and raw materials the body uses to manufacture all the chemicals it needs. From the standpoint of energy, almost any food will do. Eating the right mix of food only becomes important when you consider food as raw material. More →
Low carb diet can cause serious problems
Low carbohydrate diets for weight management are far from healthy, given their association with ketosis, constipation or diarrhoea, halitosis, headache, and general fatigue to name a few side-effects. These diets also increase the protein load to the kidneys and alter the acid balance in the body, which can result in loss of minerals from bone stores, thus compromising bone integrity. More →
Can You Really Loose Weight Quickly With The Atkins Diet?
The Atkins Diet claimed there are two main unrecognized factors about Western eating habits. Arguing firstly that the main cause of obesity is eating refined carbohydrates, particularly sugar, flour, and high-fructose corn syrups. And secondly, that saturated fat is overrated as a nutritional problem, and that only trans fats from sources such as hydrogenated oils need to be avoided. From the other hand low-carbohydrate diets have been the subject of heated debate in medical circles for three decades. They are still controversial and only recently has any serious research supported some aspects of Atkins' claims, especially for short-term weight-loss (6 months or less). More →
Controversial benefits of Atkins diet
During the first two weeks on this diet your weight loss can be precipitous, since much of it is water. In addition, your body will burn its own fat. Actually, you burn fat all the time, but without carbohydrates your body does not burn the fat completely, and thus substances called ketones are formed and released into your bloodstream. This condition, called ketosis, makes dieting easier, because it often depresses appetite and may cause nausea. More →
Controversy About Atkins's Health
Most low-carbohydrate diets do not attempt to limit the intake of proteins, fats, or total calories. In other words, their fat content tends to be very high. Promoters claim that unbalancing the diet will lead to increased metabolism of unwanted fat even if the calories are not restricted. This is not true, but calorie reduction is likely to occur because the diet's monotony tends to discourage overeating. More →
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