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Sep
16
Flat Belly Diet

This diet was invented by Cynthia Sass and Liz Vaccariello who explained their loss-weight program in the book “Flat Belly Diet!”, first issued in 2008. In the book its authors present a 32-day eating plan that, as they assure, gives the possibility to lose up to fifteen pounds and drop belly fat. The book spent twelve weeks on the bestseller list of The New York Times and the Flat Belly Diet got a great number of fans.

Sep
14
Engine 2 Diet

The Engine 2 Diet was created by Rip Esselstyn, a Texan firefighter, who described this eating plan in his book after he had discovered that one of his co-workers had extremely high cholesterol. Rip convinced him to follow a vegan diet, and his friend’s cholesterol dropped to a normal level. So Esselstyn decided to present his program to the whole world.

The diet is based on eating plants, seeds, nuts, and whole-grains. These healthy foods do not contain cholesterol so they reduce its level and contribute to losing weight.

Sep
11
Dukan Diet

The Dukan diet (sometimes called the princess diet), which is very popular in many countries nowadays, has come from France. It was invented by Pierre Dukan, a French nutritionist and medical doctor. It took him about thirty years to popularize his diet and it became widely known only after the publication of the book named “The Dukan Diet”.

Sep
7
Dash Diet

One in three grown-ups has high blood pressure. Moreover, one in four adults is close to hypertension1. After age sixty five, two of three people are hypertensive. It raises the risk of stroke, heart disease, kidney disease, and many other illnesses.

The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet is an eating plan popularized by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, headquartered in the USA, to control and prevent high blood pressure. The diet is also recommended by the American Heart Association and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Sep
5
Cambridge Diet

The famous Cambridge diet is a very low calorie eating plan, developed by Doctor Alan Howard from Cambridge University in 1970. Ten years later, this weight management program was presented in the USA, where it was extremely popular. In the United Kingdom, the diet plan was launched only in 1984. Since January 2010, this program is named the Cambridge Weight Plan, though many people still call it the Cambridge diet. Now it is available in about twenty countries of the world. The U.S. variant of the eating program is branded as the Cambridge Original and Cambridge Food for Life.

How Does It Work?

The Cambridge diet ranges from 440 to 1500 calories per day. The eating plan consists of branded soups, bars, porridge, and shakes. For quick weight loss, one can eat only these products, but they can also be taken together with normal foods if a dieter wants to lose weight more gradually. The branded products are not sold in shops. You have to get in touch with an official consultant who will measure and weigh you in order to choose the program that suits you most of all.

Sep
2
Cholesterol Diet

A cholesterol diet is an eating plan for lowering cholesterol1 levels. It is not necessarily a strict program. As a rule, it just means replacing certain foods with more healthy products and making other changes in the lifestyle.

What Is Cholesterol?

In order to realize why it is so important to lower high levels of cholesterol, you should understand what it is and how one gets too much of it.

Cholesterol is a substance produced by the body and existing in the blood, tissues, and fat of animals. It supports hormone production and cell function. As it is fat-like and waxy, cholesterol does not dissolve in blood and even does not mix with it. In the bloodstream, it is transported to the tissues and cells of the body in two kinds of carriers – high-density lipoprotein2 (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL). The former is known as “good” cholesterol, and the latter is called “bad” cholesterol.

Aug
31
Blood Type Diet

The blood type1 diet became popular after the release of book “Eat Right 4 Your Type” by Peter J. D’Adamo. In his book, which is a bestseller, he assures that a healthy diet can be determined by the dieter’s blood type. In other words, D’Adamo recommends a separate eating plan for every blood type. He claims that the blood type diet helps to lose weight and achieve good health, but most dietitians think that his theory lacks scientific evidence.

How Does It Work?

D’Adamo’s diet is based on the premise that lectins2 containing in foods, respond differently to every blood type and they can be incompatible and injurious. Therefore, it is important to eat special foods for each blood type.

Aug
27
Balanced Diet

Numerous TV programs, diet books and web sites suggest a great number of complicated diets, but in fact healthy eating is rather simple. Following a balanced diet means getting all the necessary nutrients in the right proportions and amounts. Thus, every person who wants to lose or maintain weight should eat various healthy foods and count the calories.

How Does It Work?

A balanced diet includes products from all food groups and restricts consumption of certain things, like cholesterol1, saturated fats2, refined sugar, trans-fatty acids3, alcohol, salt, etc. Healthy eating patterns are based on lean animal proteins, vegetables, fruits, low-fat dairy, fish, nuts, beans, seeds, and whole grains.