The Asian Diet
The Asian diet plan is based upon the normal eating habits as followed in most Asian countries. It serves as a diet plan that is based on a cultural model of a type of diet being followed by people from a part of the globe known to have lesser risks of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers. And because of this, the Asian diet has become quite popular in other parts of the world and have tried it as a well-balanced alternative to achieve a healthier lifestyle. A lot…
Hollywood Cookie Diet
The Hollywood cookie diet claims that you can lose weight by replacing your breakfast and lunch with just four cookies. Yes, these four cookies can substitute the two basic meals but make sure you eat a healthy dinner to achieve the best results, or probably to keep you away from serious starvation.Caloric restriction is the secret behind this unique dieting practice. Each cookie contains 150 calories, 5 grams of protein, 25 grams of carbohydrates, 8 grams of sugar, and 4 grams of fiber. So esse…
Slimming World Diet
Slimming World diet is a dietary regimen that is more popularly known as “Food Optimizing”. This type of diet is based on a calorie-restricted diet plan to help bring about weight loss. This diet is known for having some type of foods known in the diet plan as “free foods”. These are foodstuffs that are considered for their low calorie content, their high nutrient value, as well as how filling they can be. “Free foods” can be eaten in unrestricted amounts in the Slimming World diet plan. The Sli…
Subway Diet
Fast food chains as source of diets: sounds unreal right? Health conscious individuals who have seen the documentary film Supersize Me could have swore their eating habits at McDonald’s or any fast food restaurants imaginable. However, they should try erasing Subway from that hate list of restaurants fro considerable reasons. The Subway diet is created by then junior college student, Jared Fogle, in the lae 1990’s. Jared, who tipped the weighting scale at 425 pounds, caused a sensation by losi…
Popcorn Diet
According to this weight loss diet, the ultimate movie house food, the popcorn, can help cut inches to your expanding waistline. Who wouldn’t be tempted anyway? Popcorn comes in handy, is expensive, easy to cook and available in varieties at most markets. It is high in dietary fiber (0.9 grams per cup) while the hot0air popcorn is ultra low in calories and fat. When eaten regularly – minus the excess butter and salt – popcorn can be part of a healthy, low calorie diet.To lose weight with the pop…
Rosemary Conley’s Hip and Thigh Diet
The Rosemary Conley’s Hip and Thigh diet is one of the popular diets especially in the UK. It was developed by popular English exercise and fitness celebrity Rosemary Conley who also is the founder and the president of the franchise-based weight loss organization, Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Clubs. The Hip and Thigh diet first came out from Conley’s book that was published in 1988 and became quite popular especially among women as they struggle with weight gain that develops around the hips…
Macrobiotic Diet
The Macrobiotic Diet is a dietary regimen that is based on the consumption of grains as a staple food supplemented by other food groups such as vegetables and beans and avoiding the consumption of refined and processed foods. The diet also recommends chewing food eaten thoroughly before swallowing as well as avoiding eating too much. This type of diet has been practiced in some form by various traditional ancient cultures such as the Incas, the Chinese during the Han Dynasty. This diet philosoph…
3-Hour Diet
Have you ever wondered if there was any way that you could still eat in your favorite restaurant as well as eat different types of foods instead of limiting your self to fruits and vegetables? Well there is a new diet plan that was developed by Jorge Cruise and it is the 3 Hour Diet. This particular diet gets its name from the time interval that he suggests you to eat every now and then. The trick is that you essentially eat every three hours. This means that you eat very small and compact meals…
NutriSystem Diet
The NutriSystem Diet, based on the Glycemic Index (GI) of Carbohydrates is a “send you the food” diet plan. It is an online, weight loss system wherein consumers order pre-packaged meals from their website and deliver them to the participants’ door. The dieters will have to follow a specific plan, eating five meals a day which comprise of breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack and a dessert.As it is based on the GI which ranks carbohydrates according to their effect on blood sugar levels, the NutriSyst…
GI Diet
Glycemix Index, or GI, is a ranking system for carbohydrates based on their effect on blood glucose levels. It was invented by Dr. David J. Jenkins at the University of Toronto. How can the GI of a food be defined? It could be defined by the area under the two hour blood glucose response curve (AUC) following the ingestion of a fixed portion of carbohydrate (usually 50 g). The AUC of the test food is divided by the AUC of the standard (either glucose or white bread, giving two different definiti…
