Where Food and Fitness Meet
Where Food and Fitness Meet
The Zone diet involves reducing intake of carbohydrates to ensure healthy insulin levels, and consuming plenty of omega-3 fatty acids and polyphenols. The goal of the diet is to reduce inflammation. It was developed by Dr. Barry Sears, over 30 years ago, as a remedy for reducing diet-induced inflammation, because many conditions and diseases having …
The vegetarian diet has a history that dates back far back before our modern era. Originally practiced for mostly religious reasons, vegetarianism has grown beyond that to become the preferred diet of millions of people for reasons ranging from, health, to ethical, to environmental and religious. A vegetarian diet is one that, in its strictest …
The Vegan diet or Veganism is a plant-based diet that avoids food from animal sources. The diet which promotes consumption of wholesome plant-based food has experienced tremendous growth in the number of people who subscribe to a vegan diet. The growing popularity of the Vegan lifestyle is based on several reasons; health, religious, ethical and …
The South Beach Diet is a low-carb diet reputed to improve heart health and achieve quick weight loss without causing hunger. It was created in the 1990s by cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston, as a better version, in his opinion, of the Atkins diet. He believed that the Atkins plan did not cater adequately to the …