Archive for the ‘Nutrition’ Category

The Raw Food Diet: Healthy, or are Benefits Cooked-up?

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Diets In Review asked: Since when was getting a raw deal a good thing? When you decide to try the Raw Food Diet, apparently. Proponents of this natural food diet stick to unprocessed uncooked plant foods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, dried fruit, and seaweed.Most adherents are vegetarian, while [...]

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The Three Day Diet is Back

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Jeff Behar asked: The Three Day Diet is a fad diet dating back to 1985. Followers of the Three Day Diet are promised up to a 10 pound weight loss in three days. The allure of the the Three Day Diet is the promise of up to a 10 pound weight loss in three days. [...]

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You Should Know How Your Diet Is Supposed To Work

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Gary Vaughn asked: The vast majority of people start dieting in order to lose weight. Losing weight can be accomplished in a number of ways. A diet is simply a specific method for accomplishing that task.When one decides that they need to lose weight, the first thing that must be considered is the reason for [...]

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Advantages of the Atkins Diet

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Jeff Behar asked: Dr.Robert Atkins addressed his own weight condition from a diet he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association.  Realizing the benefits of the diet he  followed Atkins later popularized the idea as The Atkins Diet in a series of books, starting with Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution in 1972. The Atkins [...]

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Reduce Epileptic Seizures With an Atkins-based Diet

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Dave J. Davies asked: The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Researchers Report describes the astonishing results of a study on how a low carb diet may reduce epileptic seizures. In the report, Dr. Eric H. Kossoff discusses the results of testing, which show a 50% reduction of epileptic seizures in a third of the participants [...]

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