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Diet food (or dietetic food) refers to any food or beverage whose recipe is altered to reduce fat, carbohydrates, and/or sugar in order to make it part of a weight loss program or diet. Such foods are usually intended to assist in weight loss or a change in body type, although bodybuilding supplements are designed to increase weight.
Another 2014 review found that adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with a decreased risk of death from cancer. [27] A 2017 review found a decreased rate of cancer, although evidence was weak. [28] An updated review in 2021 found that the Mediterranean diet is associated with a 13% lower risk of cancer mortality in the general ...
The human diet can vary widely. In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism . [ 1 ] The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons (with the two often being related).
Diet for a New America is a 1987 bestselling nonfiction book by John Robbins. [1] The book links the impacts of factory farming on human health, animal welfare and the environment, in an "animal-rights, pro-environment, vegetarian message." [1] In 1991, KCET produced it as the documentary, Diet for a New America: Your Health, Your Planet. [2]
The fruits-and-vegetables diet was also successful, although it produced more modest reductions compared with the control diet (2.8 mm Hg systolic and 1.1 mm Hg diastolic). [27] In the subjects with and without hypertension, the combination diet effectively reduced blood pressure more than the fruits-and-vegetables diet or the control diet did.
Rastafari's founder, Leonard Howell, affectionately called "Gong" and "Gyangunguru Maragh", though not of Indian descent, was fascinated with Hindu practices and was instrumental in promoting a plant-based diet in the Rastafari community of Pinnacle.
The diet plan allows consumption of unlimited bananas with room temperature water or a serving of milk for breakfast. Although technically the diet allows unlimited banana consumption, nutritionists suggest that "a healthy person can consume at least seven-and-half bananas before reaching the recommended level" of potassium , a dietary mineral ...