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Category Archives: Nutrition
Gather info about as many plans as possible and see what resonates with you—the pros and cons of the last several blogs may give you a place to start your research. It may be useful to keep a food journal for a few weeks and note how you feel both physically and emotionally during and [...]
Only if—and this is key—you actually eat a lot of vegetables. Vegetarianism is not a good weight management strategy if you are a pasta-tarian. Excessive carbohydrates, especially refined ones, lead to increased fat stores. Another reason it can be hard to lose weight on a vegetarian diet is the need for essential fatty [...]
The idea behind the Raw Food Diet is that by eating foods in their natural (uncooked) state, we maximize intake of nutrients and enzymes. Most of us could improve our health by eating more raw vegetables and fruits. But should you consider going 50%, 75%, or even 90% raw? Here is my opinion:
Pros:
• raw [...]
The Eat Right for Your Blood Type Diet bases approved food lists on blood types which are purported to relate to genetic legacies. The science behind the diet is a bit shaky, but anecdotally, I have seen a few trends that seem to correlate with some of the basics:
• Type O (“hunters”—about 45% of the [...]
The Zone Diet was created by biotech researcher Barry Sears, PhD. He recommends a diet which consists of 30% protein, 30% fat, and 40% carbohydrates. The focus on the diet is on improving metabolism, especially for enhanced athletic performance. But is it for you? Here are the pros and cons as I see them:
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The South Beach diet is a low glycemic index plan which focuses on heart-healthy fats, lean protein, vegetables and—in the later phases—complex carbohydrates in limited amounts.
The pros as I see them are:
• the diet includes reasonable amounts of protein, including legumes
• monitoring and limiting high glycemic index foods is helpful for blood [...]
For awhile the high carbohydrate and low fat diet was all the rage. Books like Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé, written 30 years ago, talked up the benefits of a vegetarian diet and emphasized the ways in which we coud eat to minimize our impact on the earth. The Pritikin Eating [...]
Since warm weather is on its way (let’s hope), many of us are thinking about trimming down a bit. For the next few blogs, I would like to offer up some opinions about some of the more popular diets out there in the hopes that everyone will do their own additional research and make informed [...]
The following is excerpted from Dr. Mercola’s article about swine flu which can be read here:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx
Dr. Mercola has some controversial opinions about health and I don’t agree with everything he says, but he does recommend some helpful nutritional strategies for keeping one’s immune system strong so you are less likely to acquire infection. Here is [...]
In honor of Earth Day, here are my top ten ways to eat to save the planet:
1. Eat seasonally. Eat locally. Get to know your local farmers. You know why. Seasonal, local eating means nobody had to truck that food in from who-knows-where, using expensive fuel and polluting the air while they do it.
2. [...]
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