Google's Most Popular Diets of 2013
Paleo Diet : A growing number of adherents to the so-called "caveman" diet contend that a return to the hunter-gatherer foods of the Stone Age -- heavy on meats, devoid of most grains -- could alleviate problems like obesity, type 2 diabetes and- Suzanne Havala Hobbs, a nutrition professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, credits the growth of flexitarianism to the nation’s better understanding of the diet-disease connection.
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- Eating a pescetarian diet cuts down your protein intake considerably.
- Pescetarian diet :A vegetarian diet, which is low in saturated fat, animal protein and mainly includes seafood alternatives.
- Leonardo da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi and Steve Jobs were all fruitarians.
- Fruitarian Diet: It includes fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, without animal products or grains.
- A diet of meat and dairy products provides essential amino acids, which are important for a healthy immune system, healthy skin, healing wounds, forming tooth enamel, growth in children, processing protein, vitamins and minerals, forming connective
- Omnivore diet :An omnivorous diet includes both plant and animal foods. It’s the most common diet among humans .Lean meats supply protein, B vitamins, vitamin E and minerals including magnesium, iron and zinc. An omnivorous diet that features
- Okinawan cuisine is heavy on vegetables and pork but low on salt and mostly consists of rice, soy products, seaweed, and green tea.
- Okinawa diet :The Japanese Okinawa islands are said to include the largest proportion of centenarians in Japan.
- It starves the body of carbs and sugar, thereby tricking the body into burning fat for fuel instead of glucose. The diet is so restrictive it must be devised with an expert's help. Meal options may include scrambled eggs with cream, a bacon and
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- The diet -- both for weight loss and "detoxing" -- involves sustaining oneself on nothing more than lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup, and water for 10 consecutive days -- in addition to laxative teas and a salt water flush in the mornings.
- Master cleanse diet : If you haven't tried the Master Cleanse, chances are you've heard of it. Celebrities such as Beyoncé, Jared Leto, and Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher (who tweeted about it) have all played a part in bringing the lemonade diet to
- Meals should never lack three basic elements such as cereals, fruit and vegetables and dairy products. Furthermore, it must include a daily intake of 1.5 and 2 litres of water. In most Mediterranean countries, fruits and vegetables are part of every
- Mediterranean diet : It is known that eating a Mediterranean diet similar to Italians or Greeks is beneficial for the heart. Mediterranean diet, which includes a high intake of veggies, whole grains, and fish, a low intake of saturated fat and meat
- "It is kind of extreme, and for the general population it's not necessary to exclude all food," Julieanna Hever, a dietician specialized in plants, told AFP.
- Juice cleanse diet :This is a strict diet that restricts you to have nothing but juices from fruits and vegetables. Nutritionists, while welcoming the growth of vegetable juices, warn against taking it too far with juice-only diets.
- Some aspects of the Paleo diet are widely accepted, such as shunning many refined and processed starches and sugars in favor of fresh fruits, nuts and vegetables. But the controversy stems from its elimination of most cereals, legumes and dairy
Paleo Diet : A growing number of adherents to the so-called "caveman" diet contend that a return to the hunter-gatherer foods of the Stone Age -- heavy on meats, devoid of most grains -- could alleviate problems like obesity, type 2 diabetes and
Google's Most Popular Diets of 2013
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