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A blossary of different diets.

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The Atkins Diet, officially called the Atkins Nutritional Approach, is a low-carbohydrate diet promoted by Robert Atkins from a research paper he read in The Journal of the American Medical ...

Domain: Fitness; Category: Diet

The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat difficult-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body ...

Domain: Fitness; Category: Diet

Detox diets are dietary plans that claim to have detoxifying effects. The general idea suggests that most food contains contaminants: various ingredients deemed unnecessary for human life, such as ...

Domain: Fitness; Category: Diet

Biblical Book of Daniel (1:2-20, and 10:2-3) refers to a 10 or 21 day avoidance of foods (Daniel Fast) declared unclean by God in the laws of Moses. In modern versions of the Daniel Fast, food ...

Domain: Fitness; Category: Diet

A food guide pyramid is a pyramid shaped guide of healthy foods divided into sections to show the recommended intake for each food group. The first food pyramid was published in Sweden in 1974. The ...

Domain: Fitness; Category: Diet

Scarsdale Medical Diet Created in the 1970s by Dr. Herman Tarnower, the Scarsdale Diet is named for the town in New York in which Tarnower conducted his thriving medical practice. As a medical doctor ...

Domain: Fitness; Category: Diet

The Zone diet is a diet popularized in books by biochemist Barry Sears. It advocates consuming calories from carbohydrates and protein in a balanced ratio. When insulin levels are neither too high ...

Domain: Fitness; Category: Diet

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