Special Diets
Whatever your health goals diet will play a part. Anyone with special needs may investigate a special diet. Athletes eat to build muscle or to have energy for an event. Children eat to grow, seniors have diets to maintain bone density and brain health.
If you have a health condition - diabetes, asthma, obesity, or HBP, you may be on a special restrictive or healing diet. Others will be on special diets for moral or religious reasons.
We eat to gain weight and to lose weight, we eat to maintain weight. Any time you make changes in your eating habits with a specific goal, you're on a special diet.
Because we all eat, and eating can affect many aspects of our lives, both real experts and pretenders give diet advice. It's important to get the facts when making changes in your eating habits.
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- Q What are the key components of the macrobiotic diet?
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Dr. Michael T Murray, Naturopathic MedicineThe following are the key components of the macrobiotic diet and lifestyle: Eat only organic food. Eat two or three meals a day. Avoid cooking with electricity or microwave; use a gas or wood stove; and use only cast-iron, stainless-steel, and clay... Full Answer
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- Q What is the macrobiotic diet?
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The macrobiotic diet is a strict almost vegetarian diet with no meat, dairy or processed foods. Food choices are primarily grains, beans and vegetables with fruits, nuts and seeds eaten less often. It’s “almost”... Full Answer
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- Q Is there a good diet to enhance strength and endurance?
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Training for increased muscle strength requires adequate carbohydrate for energy production, adequate protein for muscle growth and repair, and adequate healthy fat for cell membranes, immune function, nerve transmission and more. The specific... Full Answer
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- Q What is a food combining diet?
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Rose Reisman, Nutrition & DieteticsThe theory of food combining has been around a long time, but has never been proven. Food combining is based on the belief that whatever you eat first must be digested before anything else can be eaten. The theory is that combining proteins and... Full Answer
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- Q How does a low salt diet affect sense of taste?
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Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Family MedicineWhen you get rid of the salt habit, your food may taste bland for a few weeks, but you will find that your taste buds, which were deadened by the overuse of salt, gradually regain their sensitivity. You will discover tastes that you never knew existed in... Full Answer
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- Q How will I feel on a detox diet?
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Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Family MedicineIn the process of making over your body chemistry with a healthful diet, it is not unusual to feel physically uncomfortable as you detoxify. The more stimulating or harmful your prior habits, the worse you feel when you stop them. When breaking... Full Answer
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- Q Will I feel deprived if I have to change my diet?
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Dr. Dean Ornish, Internal MedicineEven in the realm of diet, the choices become clearer. If you choose to eat a low-fat vegetarian diet instead of a cheeseburger, you may do so to avoid pain: not having chest pain is more satisfying than eating meat. Likewise, you may choose a low-fat... Full Answer
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- Q Should I follow a food combining diet?
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, CardiologyThere's no reason to follow a food combining diet to lose weight. In fact, there are good reasons not to. Food combining diets advise that you eat only certain foods together. For example, you may be told to eat protein-rich foods at one meal and... Full Answer
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- Q What are the benefits of part-time diets?
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Dr. Michael Roizen, Internal MedicineIt's a dieter's dream: you don't have to restrict calories or carbs every day to see results! Eat fewer carbs and calories just a few days a week and you'll lose weight—and keep it off. Fantasy? No. It's reality. Part-time weight-loss plans... Full Answer
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- Q How does a part-time diet work?
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Dr. Michael Roizen, Internal MedicineIt's a dieter's dream: you don't have to restrict calories or carbs every day to see results! Eat fewer carbs and calories just a few days a week and you'll lose weight—and keep it off. Fantasy? No. It's reality. Part-time weight-loss plans... Full Answer
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