Different diets

·      Mediterranean diet

·      Raw food diet

·      Paleo diet

·      Vegan

·      Vegetarian GI  diet

How much?

·      BMI

·      BMR

·      Benedict formula Importance of exercises

Different diets

The Mediterranean diet is encouraged by the traditional dietary patterns of Greece, Southern Italy, and Spain^. This diet include proportionally high consumption of olive oil, legumes, seeds, fruits, and vegetables, quite high consumption of fish, reasonable consumption of cheese and yogurt, moderate wine consumption, and low consumption of meat and meat products.

Paleo diet –caveman diet

The diet is mainly based on foods presumed to be available to Paleolithic humans. It is the nutritional approach that works with your genetics to help you stay lean, strong and energetic.

The diet regime of eating foods in its natural state, uncooked fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds raw or heated at highest 48⁰C called raw food diet.

They make most effective use of enzymes helping the digestion.  Cooking, high temperature denatures enzyme. Boost metabolism. raw food has no or much smaller amount of toxins, so less energy of the body needed to get rid of toxins more energy goes into feeding every cells. Reinforces immune system.The vegan diet excludes all animal products, including eggs, dairy, beeswax and honey. The more restrictive the diet is, the greater challenge to get the all the nutrients that a healthy body requires. The healthy diet requires thorough planning and a well-designed food pyramid is important before the diet has been started. The vegetarian diet excludes meat; flesh of any animals. Lacto –vegetarian diet excludes meat and dairy products but allows eggs. Ovo-vegetarian diet excludes meat and eggs but allows dairy products. Ovo –lacto vegetarian diet excludes meat and dairy products and eggs.   GI diet; Bad carbohydrates with high GI index such as sucrose digested quickly creating a sudden increase in blood sugar. The diet eliminates these types of carbohydrates. Good carbohydrates with low GI are digested slowly the unprocessed vegetables, beans and whole grains contain them.

Why the Raw Food Diet   

by Russel Esquibel

Since cooking eliminates most of the vitamins and nutrients in foods. And once you start consuming uncooked, unprocessed and vitamins and nutrient rich foods, you will provide your body with the vitamins and nutrients it craves. Raw vegetables have more vitamin and nutrient contents than that of a cooked or processed vegetable.

Cooking or processing will modify the elements of foods, thereby making them much harder for the body to absorb. That is main reason why there are lots of digestive health problems these days. Most of the people these days consume foods in a form that their bodies were not designed to break down. Most of the raw foods are rich in fiber and have high water content that eradicates constipation of the bowels, cells and circulatory system. Clots are washed away and flow of the blood increases, thereby providing more blood to the cells and tissues of the body. The increased blood flow has several essential benefits. The benefit that it brings about is that the increased blood flow will provide more nutrients and oxygen to the cells and tissue; it also helps remove the toxins inside the blood stream.

Being overweight is common in the United States. We all know that food industry is much more profitable than that of the oil industry. What we don't know is that the diet industry is much profitable than that of the latter. The reason for this is because of the way most people prepare the food they consume. Going for a raw food dietary plan will also help your body improve its metabolism. So instead of having to spend more energy in removing the toxins inside your system from the unhealthy, cooked and processed foods you consume. Your body can use that wasted energy for more beneficial and essential process such as feeding the cells and tissues, distributing the much needed vitamins, fluids, enzymes and oxygen; thereby making process of the body more efficient and effective.

And once you have removed the toxins inside your system, you will eventually stop eating too much because your body will no longer crave for the vitamins and nutrients that it requires. Remember, if your brain tells you that you are hungry, it will most likely generate ideas that will make you too much. In simple terms, it's the quality not the quantity that your body needs. That is why going for a raw food diet is a healthy way of living.

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