Healthy Diet Advice
Development of the Modern Diet
Dietary habits are strongly linked to food processing and the options provided by food manufacturers. If burgers and fries had been available to our caveman ancestors, they wouldn’t have bothered hunting. Unfortunately, while food manufacturers are constantly developing ever-tastier foods, these food products aren’t always healthy. A tasty food is typically high in fat or high in sugar (or both) and high in sodium. Refined white flour foods are high in unhealthy carbohydrate. Baked foods may contain trans-fats – now considered to be as unhealthy as saturated animal fats. Many supposedly fresh fruits and vegetables are old, and salad-foods can be dripping in mayonnaise. In short, many basic foods lack the nutritional quality necessary for a healthy diet. For answers to questions like: How have dietary habits changed? and What constitutes a healthy diet? please continue reading.
- Stone Age Diet
- How Agriculture Changed Hunter Gatherer Diet
- Development of Carbs
- Health Problems of Carbs in Modern Diet
- Health Problems of Fats in Modern Diet
- Lessons of Evolution For Our Modern Diet
- Guide to Healthy Diet
- Principles of Healthy Eating
- Diet For Optimum Weight – 4 Suggestions
- Weight Loss Help
- Guide to Successful Weight Management
The Digestive System
Our food digestion system (mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine) helps us to obtain energy and nutrients from food. Carbohydrate, fats and protein are each digested differently within the gastrointestinal tract, but surplus calories from these three macronutrients are ALL converted to body fat.
Calories
About calorie needs and expenditure for optimum weight management. If you want to boost your health as well as reduce your weight, avoid empty-calorie foods or calorie-dense options, follow a nutritious diet and raise your level of energy expenditure. A fast 30-minute walk can burn 200 calories.
- Quick Guide to Calorie Needs
- Healthy Ways to Reduce Calories
- Calories Used Up by Exercise
- Exercise Information
- Calorie Counting Alone is Insufficient For Weight Loss
- Calories in Food
For an explanation of how surplus calories are stored as body fat, please see: Body Fat/Adipose Tissue – Why We Gain Fat
Nutrition
Best foods to eat, plus nutritional information to maintain good health and a “normal” weight. Click below for advice about the best macronutrients and micronutrients. Remember, a healthy body loses weight faster.
- Good Carbs to Eat
- Good Protein to Eat
- Good Fats to Eat
- Fats, Oils in Healthy Weight Loss Diet
- Advice About Sugar
- Guide to Dietary Fiber
- Fiber Helps Weight Reduction
- Best Vitamins for Weight Control
- Best Minerals for Weight Control
- Diet Foods
- Sodium Content of Foods
- Protein Content of Food
- Cholesterol in Foods
- Healthy Vegetarian Diet
- Guide To Nutritional Deficiencies
Water, Weight And Health
Adequate fluid intake is an essential feature of any healthy diet plan, to prevent dehydration and ensure good health. The body usually maintains the correct fluid balance using electrolytes like potassium and sodium. If this fluid balance is upset, water retention and edema may occur. The treatment for water retention depends on its causes. Lowering sodium intake is usually a major feature for any diet to reduce water retention.
Carbohydrates and Glycemic Index (GI)
Everything you need to know about healthy carbohydrate, how much to eat and how the Glycemic Index helps to maintain good health and weight. The GI Diet method has superceded low-carb diets. It focuses on carb-quality rather than carb-quantity, and offers improved blood-glucose control for anyone with type 2 diabetes or any of the symptoms of metabolic syndrome. GI Diets are also ideal eating plans for PCOS and a range of general digestive conditions.
- GI Diet Method
- How the Body Uses Its Energy Sources
- Guide to Carbohydrates
- How Carbs Are Digested
- How Carbohydrate Affects Blood Sugar
- How Carbohydrate Affects Insulin
- Health Risks of Excessive Insulin
- Low Carb Eating Plans
- Guide to Glycemic Index (GI)
- More Details About GI
- How GI is Measured
- What Determines GI Value of Carb-Rich Foods
- Guide to Glycemic Load
- GI Values of Meals
- How to Reduce GI Value of Meals
- Low GI Foods
- How Much Carbohydrate Do We Need in Our Diet
- Guide to Carbohydrate in Our Diet
- Which is Best: Low Carb or Low GI Diet
- Health Benefits of Low GI Diets
Reviews of Weight Loss Diets
What members say about Ann Weight Loss Diet Program. This weight loss plan is ideal for obese individuals of all ages, many of whom have had remarkable success in learning new eating habits and losing up to 150 pounds. See WEIGHT LOSS PICTURES
- Review of the Weight Loss Program
- Review of Ann Support Forum
- Healthy Low Carb Diet
- Low GI Diet
- Balanced Diet For Steady Weight Loss
- Low Calorie Weight Loss Plan
- Fast Food Diet
- Cholesterol Reduction Plan
- Healthy Diet For Vegetarians
Diet Support When Trying To Lose Weight
The need for proper support is one of the least discussed but most important issues about dieting. The truth is, following a diet plan which requires you to adopt new eating habits is not easy – witness the lack of long-term success of most dieters on traditional calorie-controlled eating plans. It requires real diet help or support – either from friends or partners, or other dieters. This is why it is so important to choose a weight loss plan which provides an online forum. Otherwise, the chances are you will not attain your weight reduction goals.
