Healthy Diet Advice
Development of the Modern Diet
Dietary habits are strongly linked to food processing and the options provided by food manufacturers. If burgers and fries had been available to our caveman ancestors, they wouldn’t have bothered hunting. Unfortunately, while food manufacturers are constantly developing ever-tastier foods, these food products aren’t always healthy. A tasty food is typically high in fat or high in sugar (or both) and high in sodium. Refined white flour foods are high in unhealthy carbohydrate. Baked foods may contain trans-fats – now considered to be as unhealthy as saturated animal fats. Many supposedly fresh fruits and vegetables are old, and salad-foods can be dripping in mayonnaise. In short, many basic foods lack the nutritional quality necessary for a healthy diet. For answers to questions like: How have dietary habits changed? and What constitutes a healthy diet? please continue reading.
Calories
About calorie needs and expenditure for optimum weight management. If you want to boost your health as well as reduce your weight, avoid empty-calorie foods or calorie-dense options, follow a nutritious diet and raise your level of energy expenditure. A fast 30-minute walk can burn 200 calories.
Nutrition
Best foods to eat, plus nutritional information to maintain good health and a “normal” weight. Click below for advice about the best macronutrients and micronutrients. Remember, a healthy body loses weight faster.
Water, Weight And Health
Adequate fluid intake is an essential feature of any healthy diet plan, to prevent dehydration and ensure good health. The body usually maintains the correct fluid balance using electrolytes like potassium and sodium. If this fluid balance is upset, water retention and edema may occur. The treatment for water retention depends on its causes. Lowering sodium intake is usually a major feature for any diet to reduce water retention.
Carbohydrates and Glycemic Index (GI)
Everything you need to know about healthy carbohydrate, how much to eat and how the Glycemic Index helps to maintain good health and weight. The GI Diet method has superceded low-carb diets. It focuses on carb-quality rather than carb-quantity, and offers improved blood-glucose control for anyone with type 2 diabetes or any of the symptoms of metabolic syndrome. GI Diets are also ideal eating plans for PCOS and a range of general digestive conditions.
Reviews of Weight Loss Diets
What members say about Anne Collins Weight Loss Diet Program. This weight loss plan is ideal for obese individuals of all ages, many of whom have had remarkable success in learning new eating habits and losing up to 150 pounds. See WEIGHT LOSS PICTURES
Diet Support When Trying To Lose Weight
The need for proper support is one of the least discussed but most important issues about dieting. The truth is, following a diet plan which requires you to adopt new eating habits is not easy – witness the lack of long-term success of most dieters on traditional calorie-controlled eating plans. It requires real diet help or support – either from friends or partners, or other dieters. This is why it is so important to choose a weight loss plan which provides an online forum. Otherwise, the chances are you will not attain your weight reduction goals.