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Diets: Plant based.
The Plant-based diet, is so named, as most of the foodstuff advised is taken from fibre-rich plants. Many people who have taken to eating more plant food do so because of concern for their overall health, that they have a dietary problem through eating meat products or that they are truly concerned for the future…
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Diets: Atkins.
The Atkins diet was first developed by heart specialist, Dr Robert Atkins in the 1960s. In his book, which became very popular in the 1970s he advised restricting carbohydrates, that could help see rapid weight loss. Dr Atkins advised and encouraged people who wanted to lose weight to consume high amounts of protein and healthy…
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Diets: DASH.
DASH. Stands for “Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. “Hypertension is another word for high blood pressure, and that comes about when the pressure in your blood vessels is higher than it should be. It can of course, become serious to your life if untreated. To find out if you have hypertension you need to have…
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Diets: Paleo.
The Paleo diet consists of foods that were only available and consumed by our prehistoric ancestors, dating back to perhaps ten million years ago. It consisted of all ‘hunter-gather’ food that could be found in the areas in which early human beings lived. The simple food items mentioned were probably consumed for millions of years,…
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Diets: Intermittent Fasting.
Intermittent Fasting, is a very popular way of casting off some of your excess weight, there are many ways you can interact with fasting, one of the easiest ways is to use the 16/8 method, which allows you to eat during an 8-hour period then fasting for 16 hours. During the 8-hour stint, you can,…