The raw food diet is for people who want to extract the maximum nutritional benefit from their food. The raw food diet or ‘Foodism’ is based on the belief that food is best when eaten in its natural state or as close to it as possible. This diet has been around since the 1800s, but …
Eating Plans
The Ketogenic Diet
The Ketogenic diet is one of the select eating plans backed by extensive scientific research. It is a low-carb, high-fat diet which aims to boost Ketogenesis, the biochemical process that leads to increased production of ketones bodies through the breakdown of the body’s fat reserves. Originally developed by Dr. Russell Wilder in 1921 for treatment …
The Atkins Diet
The Atkins Diet is a counterintuitive weight loss plan that, on its introduction in the 1960s, flipped the accepted idea of how to lose weight on its head. Rather than the eating plan advocated by other weight-loss programs, which were based on reduction or removal of fatty foods, the Atkins diet increases intake of high-fat …
The Mediterranean Diet
Mediterranean Diet History generally proves that the culture and tradition of a people significantly rub off on their eating habits. This is no less true for people from countries around the Mediterranean Sea such as Greece, Spain, and Italy. The Mediterranean diet is the region’s people’s peculiar eating pattern which started becoming predominant in the …