What is The Low-Carb Diet?There are different types of low-carb diets, including the Atkins Diet, Zone Diet, Ketogenic Diets, Sugar Busters!, South Beach Diet, Paleo Diet and the Bernstein’s Diabetes Diet.Many of these are targeted toward people who have or are on the path to type 2 diabetes since high amounts of sugar can cause insulin resistance over time. This means your insulin hormone is not working properly and normally leads to weight gain.Some people follow ...

What is The Ketogenic Diet?The main goal of the Ketogenic Diet, for fitness and weight loss is because it forces the body to burn fats.In order to get on board with this diet, you will have to reduce carbohydrates and ramp up protein and other supplements.The Ketogenic Diet is not so much about omission as it is about balancing things in a different manner. Instead of focusing on low fat items, and no carbs, it’s about lowering the intake to a different level.

What is The Daniel Fast?There are two references to fasting in the book of Daniel, and that is what the Daniel Fast focuses on for guidelines.In the first reference, Daniel 1, Daniel and his friends drank only water and ate only vegetables for ten days. At the end of their ten days, they appeared healthier than their peers who ate the rich food from the royal table.Then again in Daniel 10, Daniel undergoes another fast and abstains from meat, and wine (peasant food)...

What is The Shred Diet?This diet is ideal for those dieters who have reached a plateau or who are looking to shred those last twenty pounds, but can be used by those just looking for a weight loss and a healthier lifestyle.When nothing else works, this diet can take the concept of “diet confusion” and put it to work for the body. This utilizes supplying the body with certain foods so the body continues to lose weight. Those using the Shred Diet lose, on average, 20 pounds, ...

What is The Dukan Diet?The Dukan Diet (also called the Dukan method) is considered a high-protein diet that involves eating as much food as desired from an approved list while following a schedule for these foods. Only protein is allowed in the early phase with addition of low starch vegetables in the second phase.These phases are followed until the dieter reaches their ideal weight. This diet is made to follow the eating style of primitive man back when humans were hunters...

What is the 17 Day Diet?This diet has a focus on good fats, probiotics, lean proteins, and anti-oxidant rich produce. Other good habits are incorporated into this diet in order to result in healthy habits and weight loss.Sugar is banned, along with salty or fried foods, and processed foods. In the early stages of the diet, one cannot have alcohol, starchy vegetables, or high sugar fruits.This diet cycles through four stages as indicated above, “accelerate”, “activat...

What is The 5:2 Diet?The thing most people want to know is what this diet is all about. It’s simple, and most generalize it in the following, truncated way.Two non-consecutive days are required to fast. Fasting consists of eating very little, about 600 calories (500 for women) and that’s it. The goal is to eat highly nutritional foods, however, and not just 2 candy bars and call it a day....The other 5 days, you can eat a healthy diet. This is not fasting in the tra...

What is The Wheat Belly Diet?The Wheat Belly Diet is based on the research and belief that the wheat we consume in countless products today causes many health problems because it is genetically different.Through the years, food companies have found more and more uses for wheat. The increase in demand presented a unique challenge to growers, which was to find ways to produce more wheat for a lower cost.This was accomplished, but the outcome has been a crop that barely ...

What is The 5:2 Diet?The thing most people want to know is what this diet is all about. It’s simple, and most generalize it in the following, truncated way. Two non-consecutive days are required to fast. Fasting consists of eating very little, about 600 calories (500 for women) and that’s it. The goal is to eat highly nutritional foods, however, and not just 2 candy bars and call it a day. The other 5 days, you can eat a healthy diet. This is not fasting in the traditional sense, a...

What is The Dukan Diet?The Dukan Diet (also called the Dukan method) is considered a high-protein diet that involves eating as much food as desired from an approved list while following a schedule for these foods. Only protein is allowed in the early phase with addition of low starch vegetables in the second phase. These phases are followed until the dieter reaches their ideal weight. This diet is made to follow the eating style of primitive man back when humans were hunters/gather...

What is The Paleo Diet?Learning what to eat and the foods to avoid are the first steps in following this diet, which will be explored in detail later in this book. The basic guidelines are to pay attention to the vitamins and nutrients, amount of protein, fiber and potassium you are actually putting into your body.A daily diet should include up to 35% protein, fresh vegetables and fruits over carbohydrates, increasing fiber and potassium and lowering sodium levels. This die...

The Ketogenic diet,which initially started off as a diet for pediatric epilepsy care, has now become one of the most trusted and fails-proof diets for patients and dieters alike.The reason is its lack of medicinal use and effectiveness. The best part about the Ketogenic diet perhaps is that it can be followed by children and adults alike. It is also not only limited for epilepsy patients but can also be used by people suffering from various other diseases. This eBook will detail ou...