Diets
There are many kinds of diets out there. Not all are healthy or right for you, so always consult a professional before starting on a nutrition program. Besides affecting your health, a proper diet program after consulting a professional will also help you achieve the target of your nutrition program more effectively.
Below are the different categories of diets. Click on each to see diets in that category:
Antioxidant Diets * Calorie Restricted Diets * Very Low Calorie Diets * Low Carbohydrate Diets * Detox Diets * Exotic Diets * Psychological Diets * Fat Burning Diets * Metabolism Diets * Meal Replacement Diets * High Protein Diets * Extreme Diets * Raw Food Diets * High Carbohydrate Diets * Low Sodium Diets
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Antioxidant Diets are diets that focus on the benefits of derived antioxidants from food for your body
| Macrobiotic Diet | Diet which relies on natural foods |
| The O2 Diet | Diet encourages a high intake of fresh fruit and vegetables and no counting of calories |
Calorie Restricted Diets are diets that focus on lowering your calorie intake to promote weight management
| 3 day diet | A 1,000 calories a day diet with 3 meals with no
in-between meals |
| 100 calorie diet | Based on 100 calorie snack every two hours till a calorie intake of 1500 and men 2000 calories daily |
| 3 Apple a day diet | 3-Apple-a-Day Plan involves eating an apple before each main meal |
| Baby Food diet | Aimed at achieving weight loss by reducing meal and snack portions to small packages similar to portions served to a baby |
| Skinny Diet | Dieters are advised to start each meal with salads and vegetables, followed by lean proteins because this will help you to feel full |
| Sugar Busters! Diet Plan | Weight loss by eliminating refined sugars as this diet eliminates a significant source of calorie |
| Negative Calorie Diet | Uses simple formula derived from a combination of food groups that contain lesser calories than the calories required to burn the food by the body |
| Bigger Loser Diet | 12-week program with Modified low carbohydrate diet,
Healthy servings ( 4-3-2-1) of vegetable,protein,grain and fat |
| 1200 calorie diet | A balanced eating plan containing about 1200 calories
consumed per day |
| Peanut Butter Diet | A simple low calorie diet where peanut butter is added to the snacks resulting in better weight management with reduced cravings |
| Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet | Bob’s three–phased approach with an objective of increasing activity level and restructuring diet — will help jump-start metabolism and increase the number of calories you burn. |
| Cardio Free Diet | Cardio Free Diet recommends three meals per day along with three small snacks. This is added by resistance exercises for 20 minutes, 3 times a week |
Very Low Calorie Diets are extremely low calorie diets that are difficult to maintain and can affect your health.
| Swiss Secret Diet | Intense one-week period of a controlled fast followed
by a three-week plan with lots of vegetable |
| Fruitarian diet | A diet that comprises of fruits, nuts and seeds, while excluding animal products including milk and egg |
| Dean Ornish Diet | One meal per day is skipped in this diet and foods allowed are low-fat, whole-foods diet |
| GM Diet | A seven day plan is that the food eaten burns more calories than they give to the body in caloric value |
| Ketogenic diet | Diet with less than 100 grams of carbohydrates per day
with a usual ratio of the fat/protein and carbohydrate is 4:1 |
| No-Carbohydrate diet | Low-to-No carb diet that utilizes fat as the preferred
energy source |
| Glycemic Index Diet | The Low Glycemic Index diet works on the Principle the
lower the GI of the food, the better. |
| Coconut Diet | The Coconut Diet replaces these highly refined harmful fats with one of the healthiest fats known to mankind: coconut oil |
| South Beach Diet | The South Beach Diet Recommends eating in balance, little-and-often, low-GI carbs |
| Zone Diet | Plan that comprises an accurate balanced ratio of carbohydrates (40%), fat (30%) and proteins (30%); dieters’ actually get to eat foods, which control body’s insulin production. |
| The Clean Diet | A 21-day program will have a liquid meal for breakfast
and dinner while a solid meal for lunch |
| Lemonade Diet | Consume 6-8 glasses of lemonade and only other food
allowed is ‘laxative tea’ |
| Core Balance Diet | A 4 Week diet to boost metabolism and lose weight |
| Real Food Diet | Does not contain a structured meal plan but eliminates
processed foods and other stimulants. |
| Fat Smash Diet | A 90 day program in 4 phases – detox, foundation, construction, and the temple. |
| Master Cleanse | Diet that allows only liquid meals which dissolves and
eliminates toxins formed in body. |
| Lemon Diet | Consuming liquids and 6-8 lemons a day |
| Detox Diet | Typically involves one or two days of liquid diet, especially a water diet. For the following four to five days, non-toxic foods |
| Fat Flush Diet | A diet with restrictive phase of between 1100-1200
calories per day |
| Mediterranean Diet | A diet based on the style of eating based on the Southern Mediterranean region;which includes sea-foods |
| Grapefruit diet | In this diet plan half a grapefruit is prescribed before 
every meal. |
| Abs Diet | Created by David Zinczenko with 12 “power foods” to
increase lean muscle mass and avoid storing fat |
| Sonoma Diet | Based around the Mediterranean Food, enjoyment of food, gourmet cooking, and moderate portion sizes. |
| Beck’s Diet | Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) approach to tackle
lifestyle problems that result in weight gain |
| Dr. Phil Diet | Aims at healthy thinking as well as healthy eating |
| The Gabriel Method | Diet that strongly addresses psychological issues that
may affect weight management |
| Anabolic Diet | Diet’s first phase consist of diet comprising of 60% fat, 35% protein, and only 5% carbs while second phase consist of diet comprising of 30% fat, 10% protein, and a whopping 60% carbs |
| 5 Factor Diet | 5 Factor Diet by Harley Pasternak is also a Hollywood
endorsed diet. This suggest 5 healthy meals a day , 5 days a week exercise. |
| Brown Fat Diet | A four-week meal plan that alternate between
carbohydrates and proteins. |
| Blood Type Diet | Diet recommendation varies with dieters’ blood group
which determines metabolic state of the person |
| Metabolism Miracle | A diet that takes into consideration metabolic syndrome,hormonal imbalances and liver detoxification |
| Slim Fast Diet | Weight loss program that substitutes cooked meals with
shakes and bars |
| Special K Diet | The Special K diet is basically two meals a day consist of a measured amount of Special K with skim or semi skim milk, and the third meal, is balanced, normal meal |
| Jenny Craig Weight Loss | The foundation of the Jenny Craig program is its
prepackaged meals, the majority of which are frozen |
| Dukan Diet | Highly restrictive and requires elimination of many healthy foods including fruit, grains, legumes and nuts which promotes low-fat protein |
| High Protein Diet | Consuming high amounts of protein and low amounts of
carbohydrate allow for a slow burning of energy and maintain stable blood sugar levels |
| Cheat to Lose Diet | Aims to increase the leptin level, by increasing caloric intake which ‘tricks’ the body into resuming weight-loss – in fact suggests that a single day of overfeeding or ‘cheating’ |
| Atkins Diet | A low carbohydrate (20 grams) diet that increases metabolism by burning carbohydrate instead of fat to release energy |
| Raw Banana Diet | Eating only bananas and drinking room temperature water for weight loss |
| Apple Cider Vinegar Diet | Apple Cider vinegar acts as a remedy for decreasing appetite by swallowing a few teaspoons of it before a meal |
| Chocolate Diet | Enable dieters to break their addiction to chocolate and learn how to include chocolate in the daily diet without compromising weight loss |
| Cabbage Soup Diet | A 7 day meal plan where one is put on the cabbage soup diet for all the meals |
| Tapeworm Diet | Tapeworm ingestion interferes with digestion and absorption of nutrients, so one can consume more calories and still lose weight |
| Eat Clean Diet | Allows dieters to eat foods in their natural state; unprocessed and whole. |
| Raw Foodism Diet | Promotes consumption of uncooked, unprocessed, and often organic foods as a large percentage of the diet |
| Cookie Diet | Diet recommend cookie made of whole wheat flour, bran and oats which helps to control appetite and reduce hunger |
| Pritikin Diet | Diet recommends high carbohydrate (refined or processed) like pasta with very small amount of fat |
| Bread for Life diet | The foundation of the diet is bread; up to 12 slices of bread a day for women and 16 for men which act to increase serotonin levels, which in turn results in a reduction in cravings |
| Eating mindfully | Diet helps the body to get rid of any unwanted toxins present in the colon and the liver that are preventing the optimum performance of the body |
| Low sodium diet | Restricting a higher amount of sodium intake results in water retention and weight gain, especially since most food high on sodium are also high in calories |
| Gluten Free Diet | Diet used to treat celiac disease, a disease that disrupts the absorption of nutrients in the small intestine |
| Paleo Diet | Diet with a nutrition break-up of the diet is as follows: 56–65% of their food energy from animal foods and 36–45% from plant foods. |
| Flat Belly Diet | Based on monounsaturated fats (also called MUFA) planned in every meal |
| Flexitarian Diet | Means eating more plant-based meals and less meat. |
| F Factor Diet |
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