There are hundreds of different types of diets, for different types of people and different purposes. So many questions may arise when thinking about diets such as: Which diet is the best? Which diet is the healthiest? Which diet works the best for weight loss? Which diet works for me?
Here are some useful explanations and recommendations.
What is dieting?
'Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated way to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases such as diabetes and obesity' - Wikipedia
What is the Vegetarian diet?
The Vegetarian diet simply involves refraining from eating meat, fish, and poultry and replacing all of them with more vegetables and fruits. It is one of the most adopted diets because of religious or personal reasons, as well as ethical issues, such as animal rights.
This diet also carries a lot of benefits such as a high intake of important nutrients like fiber, vitamin C, vitamin E, and magnesium also helps with:
- Reduce Cancer Risk
- Stabilize Blood Sugar
- Enhance Weight Loss
- Stabilize Blood Sugar
What to eat on the Vegetarian diet?
- Proteins: Eggs, dairy products, seitan, natto, nutritional yeast, spirulina, and tempeh
- Fruits: Peaches, oranges, pears, bananas, berries and apples
- Vegetables: Carrots, pumpkin, sweet potato, asparagus, tomatoes, and leafy greens
- Grains: Oats, barley, quinoa, rice, and buckwheat
- Legumes: Chickpeas, lentils, beans, and peas
- Nuts: Walnuts, Cashews, Almonds, and Chestnuts
- Seeds: Sunflower, sesame, flaxseed, hemp, chia, pumpkin
- Healthy fats: avocados and olive oil
Is it for you?
The vegetarian diet is recommended for everyone at any age and may reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes and obesity and other conditions.
What is Vegan Diet?
Similar to the Vegetarian Diet the Vegan diet is a lifestyle that excludes all consumption of animal products and attempts to limit animal cruelty and exploitation as much as possible.
In simple, Vegans follow a plant-based men and refrain from consuming dairy, eggs, or any other products of animal origin.
This vegan diet is great for its potential health benefits such as:
- Reducing the risk of heart disease and cancer
- Diabetes type 2
- Enhance your digestion
- Reduce your chances of developing Alzheimer's disease and more.
What to eat on the Vegan Diet?
- Proteins: Seitan, natto, nutritional yeast, spirulina, and tempeh
- Fruits: Peaches, oranges, pears, bananas, berries and apples
- Vegetables: Carrots, pumpkin, sweet potato, asparagus, tomatoes, and leafy greens
- Grains: Oats, barley, quinoa, rice, and buckwheat
- Legumes: Chickpeas, lentils, beans, and peas
- Nuts: Walnuts, Cashews, Almonds, and Chestnuts
- Seeds: Sunflower, sesame, flaxseed, hemp, chia, pumpkin
- Healthy fats: Avocados and olive oil
Is it for you?
The vegan diet is for people who choose to avoid animal products because of ethical, health, and environmental reasons.
What is a Ketogenic diet?
The ketogenic diet, also known as the "keto diet," is a low-carb, high-fat diet that has been shown to help with diabetes, cancer, epilepsy, and Alzheimer's disease.
This diet involves reducing carbohydrate intake and substituting it with fat. This lessening in carbs puts your body into a metabolic state called ketosis.
What to eat on the Keto Diet?
Here are some of the foods which are recommended on a keto diet.
You should base the majority of your meals around these foods:
- Protein: Eggs, diary products, chicken, turkey, ham, sausage, red meat, salmon, trout, tuna, and mackerel are fatty fish
- Fruit: Berries
- Vegetables: Cauliflower, broccoli, squash, zucchini
- Nuts and seeds: almonds, walnuts, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds
- Condiments: Salt, pepper, herbs, and spices
- Healthy fats: Avocados and olive oil
Is it for you?
The keto diet is for weight loss, and also useful to maintain certain medical conditions, like epilepsy, cancer, Parkinson's disease, Polycystic ovary syndrome, Alzheimer's and more.
What sugar-free diet?
The sugar-free diet is the diet that reduces one's sugar intake. This restriction includes avoiding sugary foods like sweets, and fizzy drinks, and more, also sugars found in savory foods such as pasta sauce.
What to eat on the Sugar-free Diet
- Lean protein: Eggs, diary products, chicken, meat and fish.
- Fruit: Peaches, oranges, pears, berries and apples
- Vegetables: Carrots, pumpkin, sweet potato, asparagus, tomatoes, and leafy greens
- Nuts and seeds: almonds, walnuts, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds
- Condiments: Salt, pepper, herbs, and spices
- Healthy fats: Avocados and olive oil
Is it for you?
A sugar-free diet is good for anyone looking to better their quality of life and weight loss and may assist with conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and other health conditions.
Resource: healthline.com
There are many diet plans that offer different offer unique health benefits.
Choosing the right diet depend on your lifestyle and food preferences. Contact Chantel from Lean Fit Keto to assist you get started on a Keto diet.
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