Diets

Can you help yourself live longer with just a few amendments in your diet? Can you go up to the odd, 1 in 10,000 people and expect to live till the age of one hundred. At the beginning of the 20th, century a person born in the United States could live up to the age of 49 years. Gradually, with improvements in medicine and nutrition, eradication and control of infectious diseases and advancements in agriculture, the life expectancy at the end of the 20th century had reached a whopping 77. However…

What is a Ketogenic Diet? The ketogenic diet is a low-carbohydrate, adequate protein, high-fat diet that is designed to change your metabolism, help you maintain a healthy weight, and greatly improve your health. Since glucose is the easiest molecule for your body to convert and use as energy, it is used as your body's primary source of energy. However, when you greatly lower your intake of carbohydrates and significantly increase your intake of fat, your body is put into a state known as…

Dr. William H. Dunn, a cancer doctor, wrote the book, The Aquavore Diet. His goal is for everyone to understand how to minimize cancer risk through a healthy diet. The Aquavore Diet gives a plan on how to do so by eating foods with higher water content. The idea is that maintaining good hydration status will help the body detoxify, improve metabolism, stop dehydration, increase feelings of satiety, and improve the function of the hypothalamus. All of this will help to reduce weight, and keep…

Clear Liquid Diet, Pediatric A clear liquid diet is a diet that includes only liquids that you can see through. Your child may need to follow a clear liquid diet if he or she has an upset stomach or is going to have a certain procedure or test. The goals of this diet include: To rest the stomach and digestive system as much as possible. To keep your child hydrated. To make sure your child gets some calories for energy. Most children need to follow this diet for only a short…

Do you think diet soda is healthy? Cause if so, you wouldn’t be the only one. Many people still do. The ongoing myth about how diet soda being healthy is doing nothing but harming your body. When people think of the word diet, automatically the word “healthy” comes to mind. These drinks are calorie free and technically should help people lose weight and prevent health problems. However, instead of using real sugar, diet soda as well as all diet drinks in general use different ingredients…

Hormones and the Ketogenic Diet Ketogenic diet has a direct effect on the level of two important hormones, first is insulin and second is glucagon. On studying the nature of insulin, it is found that insulin is a type of hormone, which is responsible for transporting nutrients to the targeted tissues, by separating the nutrients from the bloodstream. For exam- ple, muscle stores glucose, which becomes glycogen and adipose tissue stores FFA which becomes triglycerides and this is all due to…

that its members eat. Cultural and social hearths are often family dinner tables. But, What would our world look like if everyone was vegan? Eating a vegan diet is not only beneficial to one 's health, but it is an ethical and moral obligation to consider the way that one’s eating habits can affect the world. Skeptics claim that a vegan diet is one that is lacking in vital nutrients and may actually prove to be detrimental to one’s health. These people believe that vegans develop deficiencies…

your diet? It’s easier said than done- an average college student may have difficulties think about it, taking on a new diet isn’t simple. Although commitment may seem like a hassle, it comes with benefits as well. Not only does a person become healthier but it changes their lifestyle completely. A person’s mood changes on a daily basis, and so does their energy level, which affects how they feel about themselves. The locavore diet is a completely new distinguished diet. The locavore diet…

good health. The perception of the effects of a vegetarian diet has gone through a transformation. Because the dietary culture of our society revolves around meat, eggs and dairy milk, and because corporations have been influential over the educational resources that many rely on for information about nutrition, it is understandable that people are uncertain about whether a vegan diet is nutritionally adequate. However, the meat-based diet should stop as it increases human mortality and it…

What one consumes daily affects their health in various ways. There are numerous factors that influence ones diet such as emotions, body image, and convince. The media influences diet choices as well providing television commercial, magazine articles, books, and other dieting fads, tips, and tricks. People want to lose weight fast without being uncomfortable with lifestyle changes that come along with it. One of these books is Marilu Henner’s Total Health Makeover ten steps to your B.E.S.T.…