August 24, 2010
Quick Overview: The Grapefruit Diet is a 12 day diet which requires you to eat half of a grapefruit or drink 8 oz of grapefruit juice before each meal. Food options are very limited, and daily caloric intake is restricted to as few as 800-1,000 calories. You can lose up to 10 lbs in only [...]
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August 23, 2010
Quick Overview: The “low glycemic index (GI) diet” encourages dieters to eat foods which have a low glycemic index. Each food item is ranked on a GI scale, ranging from 1 to 100, where 1 would be equal to you drinking a glass of water, and 100 would equate to eating pure glucose. Essentially, GI [...]
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August 22, 2010
Quick Overview: The Mediterranean diet is based on eating patterns of the countries which surround the Mediterranean Sea – mainly Italy and Greece. This diet promotes moderate physical activity and consumption of foods which contain no saturated or trans fats. On this diet, you can eat carbohydrates (breads, whole grains), potatoes, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts [...]
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August 21, 2010
Quick Overview: Raw food diets are gaining in popularity as people learn more and more about the negative effects fast and processed foods have on their health. The concept is fairly simple – a raw food diet does not allow you to eat foods which have been heated above 115 degrees F. Instead, it encourages [...]
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