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Seafood Diet Linked to Bigger Brains
A team of scientists representing five countries have discovered the oldest evidence of how early humans feasted on aquatic animals, which they believe could have fueled the evolution of larger human brains.The researchers from Kenya, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa discovered a 1.95 million-year-old site in northwestern Kenya in 2004, in which they were able to fully reconstruct the environment according to its perfectly preserved fossil remains. The team have excavat…
Mediterranean Diet May Keep Your Brain Healthy
A new research suggests that older people should adhere on taking a diet that is rich in fruits, vegetables, olive oil, legumes, fish, plus moderate amounts of wine. Not only this eating habit, often called the Mediterranean Diet, keeps the heart healthy, but also delay the mental decline as they age.”Those who adhered most closely to the Mediterranean diet performed as if they were two years younger,” according to researcher Christy Tangney, PhD, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Dr…
The New Atkins Diet Book
The Atkins Diet has been one of the most successful and influential diets in the market. Since its introduction, many food companies even offer low-carb food products to cater to the followers of Atkins. The low-carbohydrate approach to dieting has also paved the way for many other diet books bearing the Atkins brand, as well as several other diet programs that attempt to duplicate the Atkins program.And with new research findings cropping out about the relation of restriction of carbohydrate…
The Volumetrics Eating Plan
Volumetrics is a diet plan developed by Dr. Barbara Rolls, a Professor of Nutrition and a Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior at Penn State University. The foundation of the Volumetrics Diet plan is satiety or the body’s signal that it is full. Volumetrics works on enhancing that feeling of fullness while eating fewer calories. The key concept of this diet plan is looking at foods’ energy density – or the number of calories contained in a specific amount of food….
BRAT Diet
There are several diets that actually began as a health treatment. One example is the BRAT Diet, which has been prescribed by doctors for people who are recovering from diarrhea, upset stomach, and stomach infections. The gistThe BRAT Diet is an acronym of the foods you are limited to eat while you are having stomach problems: Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast. These foods may be bland and low in fiber, but they are easily digested and may help recovering from diarrhea, while those who easily …
How Does Calorie Cycling Work?
Ever wonder why there would come a time that dieters would hit a plateau no matter how effective their diet is? This is because our body adjusts to the new eating plan, therefore slowing down the metabolism until it burns less fat and less calories. Your body thinks that you are not eating less because you are dieting, but rather that you are starving yourself, which is why it automatically slows down the metabolism to conserve your energy. This dilemma is the root cause on why some health exp…
The GM Diet
The GM diet is short for the General Motors diet program that was developed initially for employees and dependents at General Motors Corp. The diet’s primary aim is to allow users of the program to lose from 10 to 17 pounds each week. It is composed of a seven day meal plan that will not only help one lose weight but also help cleanse body systems due to the effects of the types of food included in the program. Here is a summary of the seven day diet plan of the GM diet. Day OneDay one of the pr…
How to Reduce Your Sodium Intake
Health experts recommend an intake of about 1,500 mg of sodium every day to help maintain water and mineral balances as well as blood volume. However, too much sodium can increase one’s blood pressure, which is why experts set a limit of up to 2,300 mg of daily sodium intake. That’s about a teaspoon of salt.However, bear in mind that salt and sodium are not one and the same. Although table salt is made from sodium, there are many “hidden” sodium found in processed foods and other food products t…
Thin for Life Diet
“It is the best book I have ever read,” commented one Amazon.com member about the latest weight-loss guide, which features successful dieters and their secrets on how they keep off the excess weight.The gistWritten by dietician Ann M. Fletcher, the book “Thin for Life: 10 Keys to Success from People Who Have Lost Weight and Kept It Off” features a six-week weight control plan, as well as recipes and frank advice from a lot of diet experts. These tips provide you with the motivation you need so…
The Stillman Diet
The Stillman diet is a type of high protein diet devised by Dr. Irwin Maxwell Stillman. Developed sometime in 1965, it is considered to be one of the early forms of high protein and low carbohydrate weight loss diets that became quite popular in the late 60’s and towards the 80’s. The Stillman diet is also considered as a low fat diet as it maintains quite a strict avoidance of fat in the diet. One of the notable features of the Stillman diet is that it promotes quick results. The diet is based …
