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Clean eating is a fad diet [1] [2] based on the belief that consuming whole foods and avoiding convenience food and other processed foods offers certain health benefits. Variations of the diet may also exclude gluten, grains, and/or dairy products and advocate the consumption of raw food. Extreme versions of the diet have been criticized for ...
It’s that time of year again when U.S. News & World Report releases their annual best and worst diets list.The panel of experts evaluating the diets comprises 69 specialists in their fields ...
A low-fat diet is one that restricts fat, and often saturated fat and cholesterol as well. Low-fat diets are intended to reduce the occurrence of conditions such as heart disease and obesity. For weight loss, they perform similarly to a low-carbohydrate diet, since macronutrient composition does not determine weight loss success. [1]
Cookie diet: A calorie control diet in which low-fat cookies are eaten to quell hunger, often in place of a meal. [18] The Hacker's Diet: A calorie-control diet from The Hacker's Diet by John Walker. The book suggests that the key to reaching and maintaining the desired weight is understanding and carefully monitoring calories consumed and used.
Robert Coleman Atkins (October 17, 1930 – April 17, 2003) was an American physician and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Diet, which requires close control of carbohydrate consumption and emphasizes protein and fat as the primary sources of dietary calories in addition to a controlled number of carbohydrates from vegetables.
Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated way to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases such as diabetes and obesity.As weight loss depends on calorie intake, different kinds of calorie-reduced diets, such as those emphasising particular macronutrients (low-fat, low-carbohydrate, etc.), have been shown to be no more effective than one another.
A recent fad diet promoted on social media platforms is the carnivore diet that involves eating only animal products. [68] There is no clinical evidence that the carnivore diet provides any health benefits. [69] [70] [71] Other recent fad diets include the lectin-free diet that has been promoted by Steven Gundry [72] and the pegan diet of Mark ...
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