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Halloween, the shops are full of Pumpkins during this seasonal period and to take advantage of the abundance of fresh pumpkins available.
It’s PUMPKIN time again!! why don’t you try these tasty treats.
Pumpkin coffee, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin ravioli, pumpkin pie, pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin beer, pumpkin potato chips, and the list goes on.Continue reading
The Ketogenic diet is a term for a low-carb diet which is similar to the Atkins diet. The idea is for you to get your calories from protein, and fat, and less from carbohydrates sugars. Like, soda, pastries, and white bread within your meal. Eventually you will run out of fuel (blood sugar). You’ll then start to break down protein and fat for energy, which can make you lose weight from a system called ketosis.
Therapeutic fasting is defined as the controlled and voluntary abstinence from all calorie-containing food and drinks for a specified period.
Fasting itself has been practiced for thousands of years and even referenced throughout the Bible, for spiritual insights and overall health. Ramaḍān, in Islam being the ninth month of the Muslim calendar and the holy month of fasting. (Journal of Insulin Resistance 2017)
Thinking of the military diet, does it sounds like a strict regime. People who know it, claim you can get healthy, but most of all, you are going to lose weight. This diet is also called the 3-day diet, and you can lose 10 pounds a week.
Those who advocate the military diet say that it has been designed by a team of nutritionists in the US military so that soldiers shape up very quickly.
It is also believed and speculated that the diet was ‘created’ by a specialist in marketing and not a nutritional expert at all. He supposedly developed the website about this diet and now generates a huge income from the paid advertisements.
The strange thing is, you can eat foods such as vanilla ice cream and even a hot dog or two. Beginning to sound like your type of diet?
Of course – but like lots of attractive things that reel us in – there’s a catch!
What is it all about then?
Some say aging is a disease and some like Nicholas Gillitt, a manager at the Dole Nutrition Institute in California says that aging is a normal process that none of us can prevent, but which we can slow down – it’s where diet comes in. Research completed on fruits and vegetables regarding longevity, has provided clues as to how to live longer, more healthily.
The Paleo Diet buzz started years back and it took the world by storm – it managed to change the way people looked at eating and dieting. Becoming healthy can be a struggle and it can also be costly and that’s why people looked for quick and easy ways to get healthy.
The Paleo diet appealed and still appeals to millions of people because basically, it’s not really a diet, it’s a lifestyle of eating that the first Paleolithic people on earth used to eat – the way nature intended.