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Diet Plans
Author: Jayesh Bagde  | Posted: 15-09-2008 | Comments: 0 | Views: 126 | Rating: (229)  (?) 
Diet plans are essential for leading a fit and healthy life. There are various diet plans that you can select, based on your requirements.
Some diet plans created are restrictive of carbohydrates and proteins. Others provide alternative food like cookie or the soup recipes. Still, others are integrated with stages or phases. But there's one which makes them united, most of them include fruits and vegetables.
3-Hour Diet
Description: Eat everything with perfect timing which was conceptualized by Jorge Cruise. It requires eating breakfast within 60 minutes upon getting up in the morning. Second is eating in 3 hour intervals or between meals. No more food is allowed 3 hours before going to bed at night.
What To Eat: 3 meals, 2 snacks, and a treat (carbohydrates, protein and fats) and small portion of sweets
Advantage: Flexibility of meal types and fits any food budget
Downside: It is not possible for very busy people
Atkins diet
Description: It is a meat based diet with no fruit or starchy vegetables conceptualized by Dr. Robert Atkins. No carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables and this results in using the reserve fats as source of energy
What To Eat: meat but no carbohydrates
Advantage: Effective for fast or crash diet
Downside: It is unhealthy since it doesn't practice good nutrition. In addition to that is the tendency for people to gain so much weight when diet stops. It increases risk of cancer.
The Cabbage Soup Diet
Description: It is a 7 day diet plan which includes cabbage soup recipe and other meals. Proper distribution of food groups within the 7 day period. It includes the special menu of cabbage soup. It also recommends taking in multivitamins to fight stress. It focuses on the lose water diet scheme.
What to Eat: cabbage soup menu, skim milk, brown rice, unsweetened drinks, fruits
Advantage: It is effective for fast dieting. There is no possibility of serious heart problems. It includes a very simple recipe.
Downside: Weight gain when one stops the cabbage soup diet.
Cookie diet
Description: It requires eating cookies the entire day to replace the breakfast and lunch meals. Dinner should be healthy and sensible. Using cookies in a low calorie diet tends to make someone feel full. Cookie is made of amino acids and fiber.
What to eat: four to six cookies throughout the day and a healthy dinner
Advantage: It is effective for those who skip meals and have no time. It does not need preparation.
Downside: It is not easy to make it as a lifestyle diet scheme so it's short term. There are limited flavors for the cookies available.
Eat to Live Diet
Description: It requires eating low calorie nutritious meals conceptualized by Dr. Joel Fuhrman. Primarily, focus on vegetables and fruits with less salt and sugar.
What to eat: nuts, vegetables, fruits and no snacking
Advantage: It aims to lose weight yet remain healthy. It is not a tasteless diet. It is lifestyle changing and good to lower cholesterol.
Downside: It is lifestyle changing so it would require avoiding the usual snacking and eating out practices.
The Raw Food Diet
Description: It requires eating a low calorie nutritious diet which includes raw food. It is also known as the living diet. Raw food is one of the best diet foods. It encompasses the living food philosophy.
What to Eat: salad, cake, soup, vegetables, fruits with recipes
Advantage: It is a low calorie diet but healthy and nutritious. Some recipes do not require 100% raw food.
Downside: Reality is that some vegetables can't be eaten raw. It entails planning and preparation.
The Sonoma Diet
Description: It includes ten power foods flavored in 3 waves conceptualized by Connie Guttersen. Food preparation of the ten power flavored foods based on Mediterranean diet with portion control
What to Eat: whole grains, almonds, bell peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, grapes, spinach, blueberries, strawberries, and olive oil.
Advantage: There is wide variety of food prepared with flavor and easy to maintain. Recipes are prepared to be shared with all family members.
Downside: It requires spending time for cooking.
The South Beach Diet
Description: The diet plans is restricted to low carbohydrates plus fruits and vegetables. It has 3 phases: restrictive, targeted and maintenance. It was created by Arthur Agatston.
What to Eat: lean meats, low fat vegetables and cheeses, low carbohydrates, fruits
Advantage: One eats three meals a day with snacks. It's easy to prepare food which includes frozen entrees.
Downside: Probably it is not as healthy as the Sonoma diet.
The Vegetarian Diet
Description: The diet plan involves a low calorie high in nutrients recipes. It must have a plan based on one's size from the Zone Food Blocks. It is a calorie restrictive diet.
What to Eat: sweet potato, brown rice, fruits and vegetables
Advantage: It is a healthy and balanced diet of proteins, carbohydrates and fat.
Downside: It needs menu planning to check on alternatives for meat.
The Zone Diet
Description: It is a diet plan of eating 40% carbohydrates, 30% fat, and 30% protein. It allows one to enjoy 3 meals and two snacks each day. It is one of the most famous diets in Hollywood. It was created by Barry Sears.
What to Eat: lean meats, vegetables, whole grain
Advantage: It includes all types of foods.
Downside: It can be expensive for those who will avail of food delivery. It can be complicated to follow on the ratio pattern of food intake
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