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What Diet is For Me - F
This diet is another home grown and is a effective diet plan the Fatfield Diet is a calorie-controlled diet designed to induce healthy weight loss, created in the 1990s by British author and The Sun journalist Sally Ann Voak.
The diet works by restricting calorie intake but encourages consumption of large amounts of food which have low calorific value and/or are high in fibre. The variety within the diet and the large bulk of the food consumed means that the dieter feels well and full yet still loses weight.
The diet is unquestionably healthy and effective, and is sufficiently flexible enough to agree with different tastes. Its principal disadvantage is the time and effort required to assemble and prepare all the ingredients. This may not suit very busy people with severe restrictions on their time.
Despite the interest generated within the United Kingdom, because there was no new or revolutionary aspect to the diet, the diet did not attract interest elsewhere and remains little-known outside of that country.
This diet is not related to a fitness plan but the information may be of some use to you so we have decided to include it. The Feingold diet is a food elimination program developed by Ben F. Feingold, MD to treat hyperactivity. It eliminates a number of artificial colors and artificial flavors, aspartame, three petroleum-based preservatives, and (at least initially) certain salicylates.
There has been much debate about the efficacy of this program. Some mainstream medical practitioners deny that it is of any value, while other medical practitioners, as well as many people living with ADHD and parents of children with ADHD, claim that it is effective in the management of ADHD as well as a number of other behavioral, physical and neurological conditions including salicylate sensitivity. The debate has continued for more than 30 years, involving not only consumers and physicians, but scientists, politicians, and the pharmaceutical and food industries.
During the initial weeks of the Program, certain foods containing salicylates are removed and may later be reintroduced and tested for tolerance, one at a time. Most of the problematic salicylate-rich foods are common temperate-zone fruits, as well as a few vegetables, spices, and one tree nut. During this early period, foods like pears, cashews and bananas are used instead of foods like apples, almonds and grapes.
Contrary to popular misconception, soft drinks, chocolate and sugar have never been eliminated on the Feingold Program, although moderation is encouraged when consuming such items. Families can often continue to eat the types of food to which they are accustomed, including desserts. It is a matter of picking brands free of the unwanted additives. Most of the acceptable foods are easily available at supermarkets.
The Fit For Life diet can fit in nicely with a programme of training and relaxation, it is part of the life journey towards well-being.
Fit for Life is a diet and lifestyle, stemming from the principles in Natural Hygiene. Fit for Life claims that one can lose excess body weight and maintain good health via long term dietary and lifestyle practices, rather than short term dieting.
The diet warned against eating artificial food additives such as hydrogenated vegetable oil, which at the time was being promoted by the food industry as a healthy alternative to saturated fat. The Diamonds' claims were disregarded by the food industry and criticized by various dietitians.Now nearly twenty years later hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil are regarded by health officials, such as those in New York City, to be so toxic that food containing the additive is classified on a par with food containing rodent dropping.
Fit for Life: A New Beginning (2001) - by Harvey Diamond
This is for those of you who like the idea of being a vegetarian, however fancy the occasional treat maybe at Christmas or a Birthday.
Basically a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat, so if you can't decide or only fancy the odd piece of meat for nutritional or ceremonial needs, then you can tell your friends that you are a flexitarian.
Food combining is the term for a nutritional approach that emphasizes the importance of properly combining foods, as well as that of properly timing their consumption. According to its advocates, the most important rule of food combining is not to mix at the same meal carbohydrate-rich foods such as bread, cereals, carrots, beetroot and protein-rich foods such as meat, milk, eggs, beans, nuts and seeds. Another important rule is to always eat fruit alone and wait 20-30 minutes before eating another meal so that the fruit has time to pass through the stomach, since fruit does not require to be digested in the stomach with the help of gastric juices. As another example, advocates sometimes recommend that carbohydrates and citrus fruits should not be consumed at the same meal, claiming that the enzyme that digests carbohydrates (amylase) can only function in an alkaline environment. Similarly, when proteins are consumed, the stomach releases pepsin, which is its enzyme for digesting protein foods. Alkaline and pepsin neutralize each other when in the stomach together, thus rendering the digestive juices less effective in breaking down foods that have been miscombined.
Advocates of such food combining believe that the result of too many "miscombined" meals is a backlog of undigested food in the stomach. They believe that this can lead to chronic conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, acne, and many other ailments believed to originate with an unclean colon. The most obvious negative effect, however, is the lack of energy after eating a large meal, hence the need for what is called siesta. Adepts of food combining claim they never feel tired after eating a large meal, but energized and ready to go. Among the proponents of this idea are some raw foodists who adopt the food combining philosophy to combat the ailments associated with an unclean colon, among other reasons.
Many of the assumptions used to justify food combining are not supported by biological and medical science, and there is currently little researched evidence supporting these theories. With this said, there are thousands of testimonials by people who claim that they have experienced improvements in several digestive related health conditions including acid reflux, bloating, stomach ache, gas emissions, and fatigue experienced after eating. One randomized controlled trial has been reported in the peer-reviewed medical literature, which found no evidence that food-combining principles were effective in promoting weight loss.
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The fruitarian diet consists of RAW fruit and seeds ONLY!
Examples of fruits are: Pineapple, mango, banana, avocado, apple, melon, orange, etc., all kinds of berries, and the vegetable fruits such as tomato, cucumber, olives; and dried fruits such as nuts, hazelnuts, cashews, chestnuts, etc.. And seeds including sprouted seeds.
Of all food stuff that human beings can eat, fruit is the most delicious to our taste, has the most pleasurable smell and the most beautiful shape with so many lively colors. Fruit is the only food stuff that can completely satisfy humans…everything else is incomplete…
Its attractive aroma, its appetizing and refreshing juice and its nutritive contents (vitamins, enzymes, minerals, fiber, water, proteins,etc.) make it the BEST food a human being can eat. Fruit is a TOTAL food stuff, it has everything you need to nourish yourself in the right proportions. Fruit, can be stored at room temperature, does not need refrigerator or stove and long periods of time to be prepared, does not badly dirt dishes…
Every doctor, every nutritionist in the world agrees that people need fruit and fruit is the best food stuff for long term health, weight control, longevity and detoxification.
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