Better Homes and Garden Diet
The Better Homes and Garden Diet is a calorie counting-based diet. Created by the popular magazine Better Homes & Gardens, this diet plan’s approach to weight loss and dieting allows for plenty of opportunities to cook.Aside form providing plenty of opportunities for you to cook, it also allows you to touch on your math – meaning you would really be doing a lot of counting and computing. Your daily caloric intake is based on computations which involve your weight, age and gender. This means that…
Traffic Light Diet
The Traffic Light Diet plan provides a new way to help you cut down on your calorie intake. Food is divided into one of three color groups. Food types are grouped together based on calorie content and nutritional value. Red foods are high in calories but low in nutrients. Amber foods are high in calorie but are also high in other nutrients. Green foods are low on calories and high on nutrients. The key is to opt for more Green foods, go easy on Amber foods and limit your intake of Red foods, you…
Bland Diet
Aside from claims of being effective, diets plans usually come with an attractive name that calls the attention of the market. For instance, who would not try a “Fat Diet” or find out why “French Women Don’t Get Fat”? And among diet plans in the market, there are some that try to go the unconventional by stating their title as it is, just like the “Bland Diet.”The gistThe Bland Diet is so bland it is not promoted through high-profile books, flashy websites, or celebrity endorsements. It is ac…
Acid-Alkaline Diet
It may not be as pretty-sounding as some diet fads like, say, “Body by God,” but Acid-Alkaline Diet is arguably one of the most controversial diet plans developed. It is simply based on how the foods’ pH level affects our body.The gistMost foods we eat have a specific pH level, which measures their acidity or alkalinity. The pH level of foods has effects on our blood and eventually the whole body. A body that is too acidic is usually prone to hyperventilation as well as a variety of diseases, wh…
Ultrametabolism Diet
Different people deal with dieting differently. Some people would rather lose weight through tried-and-tested diet and exercise, while others are free spirited when it comes to dieting. There are, however, those who follow dieting to a T, those who are patient enough to count every calorie of the foods they eat, who are disciplined enough to eliminate particular types of food in their diet. If you more of the latter, then Ultrametabolism Diet could be the one for you. The gistBased on the book “…
Dorm Room Diet
College freshmen troop to their dorms on Augusts every year. This is also the time when their eating habits begin to change, which sort off proving the health myth about the “Fashion 15,” when students begin to gain weight significantly. However, it also has to be taken into account that our metabolism slows down as we age, which can contribute to the shift in weight.To cope with that physical and lifestyle changes, author Daphne Oz suggests a simple plan that can help guide college students a…
The Chinese Diet
What comes to mind when you think of Chinese food? Okay, so there are those familiar noodles-in-a-box and also rice bowls with chopsticks. If you have a more elevated mindset, then you would also think of crunchy prawns gleaming with oil, dumplings stuffed with tons of pork fat, or even roasted duck with golden, crisp skin. You start to salivate… and you start thinking also of other images, like a smiling Buddha with a humongous belly, Chairman Mao with his bulging socialist suit, and those r…
Negative Calorie Diet
Did you hear it right, a diet that actually gives negative calories? It is quite a controversial subject, but the proponent of the Negative Calorie Diet believes that certain foods require your body to burn more calories than the food can provide nutritionally, thus creating a “negative effect.”The gistNot all foods can easily be digested by the human body. This extra effort our digestion system does whenever we eat foods that are supposedly tougher to digest would, as they say, result in nega…
The Body Clock Diet
The Body Clock Diet is written by the famous dietitian Lyndel Costain. The theory that lies in the program of the book is about losing weight through eating at the right time. What you eat is not the only thing matters. Your body’s natural rhythms is also important. Although this principle has been in existence for already a long time, this is in fact one of the diet to take into action properly. How the diet work?The diet is blunt. The program includes instructions that the person needs to fo…
Sugar Addict Diets
An average American consumes two to three pounds of sugar a week according to an article written at healingdaily.com which is indeed already a lot. Sugar is good for our body but it can ruin our health as well. For one, it can make us fat. This is why Carbohydrates and Fats are not the only ones people who are on a diet are checking but their Sugar intake as well. Cutting off sugar intake maybe hard especially for the self confessed sugar addicts.What does the diet involve?Nicki Waterman the aut…
