Healthy Diet

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24 Oct 2007

According to American Sports Data Inc. the percentage of Obesity in the US has increased from 13 % ( in the base year 1962) to 31 % (in the year 2000). Hold your breath .. the worse is yet to come.

The U.S. Surgeon General report indicates that obesity is responsible for the death of over a quarter million Americans every year. About 63 % of adult Americans have a body mass index of over 25 – which means one thing – that we are overweight and we need to do something about this.

With increasing affluence and change in dietary pattern across the world, things are not exactly rosy elsewhere either. I see this as another problem affecting the entire world.

Is there a solution for this weighty problem? There is – in fact – plenty.

Diets and exercise programs can help alleviate the problem. We come back to the core subject of this blog – choosing the right diet that will work for you. Is there a Healthy Diet ?

No	Diet Plan	Features
1	Rice Diet	The rice diet propagated by the Duke University has shown considerable results in persons suffering from obesity and heart disease.
2	Sacred Heart Diet	For rapid weight loss in overweight heart patients prior to their surgery. This is a soup-based diet and people following this diet tend to lose around 10-17 pounds in the first week itself.
3	Dash Diet	The DASH diet aims at reducing elevated blood pressure with dietary modifications. This hypertension diet is not a fixed menu but a guideline towards reducing sodium and fats in the diet.
4	3 Day Diet Strategy	A 3 day diet strategy involves a calorie-restricted diet to bring about quick loss of weight. The effectiveness of these diets is much debated though
5	Negative Calorie Diet	Negative calorie diet seeks to rev up the body’s metabolic processes. Suitable for weight loss and subsequent weight maintenance
6	Scarsdale Diet Plan	The good part is that salads and lean meats form a large chunk of the diet. But the diet is so severely restricted in calories that it is difficult to follow it for too long.
7	Raw Food Diet	Consuming 75% of the diet as enzymatically alive, raw, whole, live uncooked food is favorable.
8	High Protein Diet	High protein, high fat and moderate carbohydrate diet is closely related to Atkins diet. A variation of this diet is zone diet.
9	Zone Diet Plan	This diet prescribes moderate carbohydrate, adequate protein and a low fat diet. Also referred to as 40:30:30 diet – 40% carbohydrate, 30% protein and 30% fat.
10	South Beach Diet	South Beach diet plan is aimed at shedding off weight and keeping it off. Promoted in 3 phases. May need individual adaptation as all other diet plans do.
11	Sonoma Diet	The secret to losing weight forever is not in avoiding foods you love but enjoying the right foods in the right amounts.
12	Macrobiotic Diet	Macrobiotic diet seeks to harmonize the forces of Ying and Yang so as to optimize their effect on the body. Mostly vegetarian food items …
13	Montignac Diet	The method aims at changing the way people eat – choosing the right food combination to eat and not in limiting what they eat.
14	Low Fat Low Cholesterol Diet	A restrictive diet with many benefits. The page also has a few low fat / low cholesterol recipes.
15	Hay Diet	This diet is also known as the food combining diet and functions as a trigger to reduce unwanted weight. No exercise schedule is insisted during this diet program, this is a diet that works purely with the nutrition of the body and can be followed all through the life of a person.