You know the importance of choosing a healthy diet for your pet. You have taken the time and effort to consult with the veterinarian about a healthy and nutritious dog food. Whether you choose dried food‚ canned dog food‚ or make it from scratch‚ you may be overlooking something extremely important in your dog’s diet. Do you occasionally give your best friend a treat from the table or a rawhide to chew? These treats may seem like a simple snack or tidbit‚ but they really can add up. You may
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Introduction The South Beach Diet‚ which originated with Dr. Arthur Agatston‚ a cardiologist‚ began as a response to the growing rate of heart disease patients in the United States. He found that many of the fad diets were focused on high carbohydrates‚ which were not affecting the type of weight loss needed to reduce heart disease. The center‚ or heart of the diet‚ is focused on healthy lifestyle living‚ and maintenance around nutritional choices. The South Beach diet focuses on three phases: Phase
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Pros and cons of vegetarian diet Vegetarian diets are based on cereals‚ whole grains‚ pulses‚ nuts‚ vegetables and fruits. Lacto-ovo-vegetarians do not consume any meat‚ poultry or fish but include eggs and dairy products in their diets. Vegans do not consume any food obtained from animals. Other vegetarian diets include fruitarians and macrobiotic diets that are more restricted. Reference to vegetarian diets usually implies lacto-ovo-vegetarians. A number of reasons can be attributed to preference
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Minerals are an usual element of certain kinds of foods‚ but they can be ingested separately. I understand: That nutrients found in healthy food are mostly what our body requires the most‚ and there is a lot of nutrients found in healthy food. 3. What can we achieve from staying healthy? Answer: When we’re staying healthy‚ our body gets stronger‚ and we won’t fall sick easily. And we won’t get health issues like high blood pressure‚ high cholesterol‚ diabetes etc. By staying healthy‚ we
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The diets that I would recommend to a friend to help achieve a safe‚ healthy‚ effective and sustainable weight loss would be the Dash Diet‚ the TLC (Therapeutic Lifestyle change) Diet‚ and the Mayo Clinic Diet. I would consider these three diets to be among the best that were discussed on the websites. The Dash diet uses a healthier eating pattern as their key to weight loss. The Dash diet keeps salt‚ fats and sugar out of the diet plan‚ while allowing flexibility with meat‚ grains‚ vegetables and
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many turned to the Paleo diet. The Paleo diet suggests that our ancient ancestors ate foods that provide the optimal nutritional requirements. The diet’s popularity indicates success‚ but alternative diets exist that provide a more conventional and proven dieting experience with results. Although the Paleo diet can be effective‚ there are other alternatives that lead to weight loss without potentially damaging one’s health through nutritional imbalance. Many
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New diet programs seem to crop up almost every month‚ so much so that at times I find it difficult to remember all of them. A new kid on the block is the Ketogenic Diet. You may or may not have heard of it because it hasn’t been able to reach the popularity levels of Atkins Diet or South Beach diet. Nonetheless‚ weight loss has little to do with the popularity of a particular diet program. In my experience I have found that people have lost weight with little known diet programs‚ and the opposite
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Diet 1 I had a healthy lifestyle in High School while being apart of the wrestling team. As part of my diet I would eat bananas‚ peanuts‚ multi-vitamins and much more to stay in my weight class. While trying to avoid gaining any weight before a match or competition. After a while I had developed a healthy lifestyle while participating in the sport I enjoyed. After the season would end‚ I would find ways to stay active. For example‚ I would participate in dance or any other extracurricular
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In Michael Pollan’s essay “Escape from the Western Diet‚” he informs Americans about the western diet and believes they need to escape from it. The reason Americans should escape the western diet is to avoid the harmful effects associated with it such as “western diseases” (Pollan‚ 434). To support his view on the issue‚ Pollan describes factors of the western diet that dictate what Americans believe they should eat. These factors include scientists with their theories of nutritionism‚ the food industry
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Regulating Children’s Diets Children’s diets today are too unhealthy and do not provide good nutrition. In fact‚ the percent of obesity in children 6 to 19 tripled in the U.S. between 1980-2000‚ according to the article‚ “So Long Sweets”. Which brings me to two reasons why children’s diets should be regulated‚ this is because too much sugar is unhealthy and poor nutrition contributes to obesity. While it may be obvious that too much sugar is unhealthy‚ there can be deeper concerns. Damaging and
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