Diets

Frequently Asked Questions

1. QUESTION:
   *diets.....*?
   this is a dumb question but i just HAVE to know. are teens )ages 12-15) supposed to be on diets? i hear both sides, one thats its ok to be on a diet as long as you get enough nutrition, and others say you're not because it'll mess up your growth. all i wanna be is skinny but my mom says i dont need to lose weight (long long long story short, i was bulimic. i loss wieght but i wasnt really, just looked leaner and more toned) and so yes, are "growing bodies" alright to be on diets???

   • ANSWER:
     You can eat foods with lots of calories such as rice and chicken. Just eat 3 meals a day without snacks in between. My grandma makes food with lots of calories, but she doesn't eat snacks. Therefore, she is THIN. If you follow my advice, you will be thin in no time!

2. QUESTION:
   Diets?????
   Hey guys I've tried many diets-- they just aren't working for me. I need to lose at least 20 pounds... any good diets or tips?

   Thanks.

   • ANSWER:
     let me show you what worked for me. No long winded speeches, no fad diet nonsense here. Eat what you like. Just keep it to1200 calories a day (healthier is better obviously) and sweat and I mean SWEAT!! for 30-40 minutes a day 6-7 days a week (60 minutes if you can manage it). Remember the more you sweat the more you can add to your eating plan. Write down everything you eat with calorie content. This will give you an overall look at where you need to make changes. Don't eat after 6 pm ever. Don't cheat, you're only fooling yourself and don't skip workouts. You should be losing about between 2-3 pounds a week, which is a healthy rate without starving yourself...Good luck!

3. QUESTION:
   What diets would you consider extreme and unhealthy?
   I'm trying to do research about obesity and dieting habits in America. A lot of the diets I am seeing are pretty brutal. What are the craziest diets you have taken? Do you know anyone who has jeopardized their health from dieting? And what extremes have you gone to?

   • ANSWER:
     People that do only the one part of the master cleanse. i.e. distilled water, lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper. When they do it for more than 3 days, it can be very unhealthy since your body isn't getting minerals like sodium and potassium which are pretty much necessary for your heart to beat!!

     I had a friend who did this for 10 days and he lost weight alright, he lost muscle!! He also had decreased brain function....

4. QUESTION:
   What are some fad diets that actually work?
   I really want to lose about 10-15 pounds in about a month or so. I've always wanted to try fad diets and decided that I think this might be the right time to do it so I can lose some belly fat before swimsuit season. Anyone have any diets that they think might work? Of course i'm also going to be exercising but need some tips on what to eat.

   • ANSWER:
     Fad diets don't work on the long term, if they did, you'll see them everywhere. High chances are that if you do lose 10 - 15 pounds in a month, you'll likely gain it back very quickly. A regular diet is your best choice. Eating junk foods once in a while is fine, majority of the time you want to eat the foods you know you should be eating, in other words more cooking, less buying microwavable junk.

5. QUESTION:
   What are some fad diets that actually worked for you?
   Diets that involve either packaged meals or ways to eat, like Nutrisystem. I want people to only speak from experience here. I know Nutrisystem seems great but the food like really disgusting and I would not eat it everyday. I don't want to know about Weight Watchers either. I exericse regularly but I need a good eating pattern. Not looking to be told to eat plenty of vegetables and acai berries. Looking for input on fad meal planning diets. Thanks!

   • ANSWER:
     hello, ok lets see if i can help you ...my dad drinks this one thing called LINAZA every morning. It cleans your stomach , its great he has lost weight by drinking this and plus is great for your body.

6. QUESTION:
   What are the different types of vegetarian diets utilized in society?
   What are the different benefits and risks associated with vegetarian diets?
   Are you for or against vegetarian diets?

   Im am writing a paper on vegetarian diets and know nothing about them... can anyone help?

   • ANSWER:
     The main types of vegetarian are ovo-lacto vegetarian, meaning someone who doesn't eat meat, poultry, or fish but does eat eggs and dairy, and vegan, someone who doesn't eat any animal products.

     There are many benefits to vegetarian/vegan diets. Modern animal agriculture (factory farms) is extremely damaging to the environment and also inhumane for the animals. The meat, milk, and eggs it produces is not as nutritious as traditional pasture-based methods of livestock farming either.

     Diets high in animal products are also associated with many serious health problems. Personally I think the animal products themselves are not the problem as much as the sheer quantity of animal products eaten in the Standard American Diet (double the amount consumed even 50 years ago) and the poor quality of modern animal products due to the harmful practice of grain-finishing and routine feeding of antibiotics and growth hormones.

     Speaking of routine feeding of antibiotics, antibiotics fed to healthy livestock have been implicated in the rise of antibiotic resistant diseases such as MRSA. 70% of all antibiotics used in the US are fed to HEALTHY livestock to make them gain weight faster and keep them healthy in overcrowded, stressful conditions.

     Eating a healthy, balanced vegetarian diet has no health risks whatsoever. (Eating an unhealthy vegetarian diet obviously does, but not any more than an unhealthy omnivorous diet.) Vegans need to be careful to get enough vitamin B12, which is only available naturally in animal products, but can be found in supplemented grains and other products now.

     I'm personally an omnivore, but I average about 80-100% vegetarian meals in any given week, and a fair number of vegan meals as well, so I support both lifestyles fully.

7. QUESTION:
   What are some diets for a a lactose intolerant vegetarian?
   I've been having a lot of stomach pains for about 3 years now and I never noticed a pattern in it. Well I've finally found it. After I eat or drink a dairy product my stomach hurts. But I'm also a vegetarian. What are some foods I can eat and some diets to lose and keep the weight off?

   • ANSWER:
     I'm lactose intolerant too.
     You can take loads of soy products like soya milk, taufu, beans stuffs. To keep weight off, you can take grain/wheat/brown bread instead of white bread. Brown rice, rice etc.
     Stay off cheese & chocolates (reduce chocolate intakes & sugar). U can take honey & stay off carbonated drinks. These have loads of sugar.
     U must exercise as well, diet itself won't keep the weight off.
     A normal 30mins. run/walk would do daily or even housework will burn the carbs.

8. QUESTION:
   Are there special diets for the elderly with gastrointestinal problems?
   Please let me know if there is information about special diets or gastrointestinal problems and foods or diets that are available. Thank you.

   • ANSWER:
     Anyone with GI problems might be on a special diet. There are so many organs involved in the digestive system with the stomach being the one most likely to be involved. You also have the gallbladder that controls the amount of bile and the pancreas with controlling the insulin as you digest the food. Then after the food goes through these systems the colon then is the final breakdown with is like the waste system where the final food either gets used or disposed of through the rectum. The GI doctor will let you know whatever special diet if any you need to be on. Good luck and God Bless

9. QUESTION:
   What are some diets that I can go on to get a flat belly?
   Specific diets please. If you can, also include a list of the types of foods that I can and can't eat on this diet. Please and thank you.

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10. QUESTION:
    What are good diets to steadily build muscle?
    I'm 6ft 150Lb . I am athletic so I am in shape. I want to start building muscle so i decided to join the gym. My partner has been going for a while is guiding me through the machines and stuff. I don't know a good diets to build muscle. Anybody have an easy diet that doesn't include supplements?

    • ANSWER:
      Eat the foods that bodybuilders eat in the same fashion that they eat them (5-6 balanced and proportioned meals, eat every 3 hours). At least 70% of your muscle gains will be due to the food you eat, so that is the most important aspect to focus on. There's to many foods to list here, so just do a search on the foods bodybuilders eat. They have it down to a science on which foods sets your body in the most anabolic (muscle building) and fat burning mode. Right down to getting the maximum release of good hormones (testosterone and growth hormone) and the minimum of bad hormones.

      Edit: Supplements aren't nessicary anyway and only a few of them give you a slight improvement (3%) over good healthy food.

11. QUESTION:
    What are the side effects of popular diets?
    I am doing a group presentation and wanted to know what types of nutrient and other things your neglect yourself when doing diets such as the grapefruit diet and Atkins Diet. I need three diets, though I only need to talk for 4 minutes.

    • ANSWER:
      The two most popular diets are:

      - Calorie restricted diet
      - Atkins diet

      Neither diet is effective over a period of one year or more (Gina Kolata "Rethinking Thin"). The human body is architected to prevent starvation and was not designed to handle the amount of fat, oil, sugars, and additives in the standard American diet today. When you eat too few calories, your body automatically reduces metabolizm and stores fat. Calorie restricted diets go against the hard wiring of the human brain.

      Atkins is down right dangerous according to Dr. Neal Barnard and Dr. Dean Ornish (among many experts in human nutrition). The risk of heart disease, obesity, stroke, some cancers, and diabetes can be expected to increase in this diet. The diet is high in cholesterol and fat and will cause cardiovascular disease

      The one diet that seems to work universally when a person follows it for life is a pure vegetarian diet. According to the experts listed before and Dr Calwell Esselstyn, Jr. this is an ideal diet. I lost 50 pounds by changing my eating habits in this way. Vegetarians must be careful to get enough vitamin B12, vitamin D, and Omega-3 fatty acids. These can be added with supplements.

12. QUESTION:
    What can type of excercise routines and diets you can start to lose weight and get physically fit?
    My girlfriend feels she needs to lose weight and i wouldn't mind getting in shape myself. Only problem is we don't where to start. What diets can you start and what type of exercise routines we should use?

    Also is there a site we can go to for tips on making healthy food for cheap, exercise routines and etc.

    Really appreciate it

    • ANSWER:
      If you never exercise, start by just going for a 2-mile walk every day (great chance to chat and bond with her!). As far as diet goes, really keeping a food diary is the best place to start. It gives you a reality check as to when you're eating too much or what you eat without even thinking.

      After a week or so, start adding calisthenics such as situps, pushups, etc.

      I like this website
      http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/default.htm

      All free and good tips!

13. QUESTION:
    What are the best and fastest exercises and diets to reduce belly fat and to shrink the waistline?
    I am trying to reduce inches off of my belly and sides, and I need to know what are the most effective exercise methods and diets that work. I'm not trying to loose weight, Im just trying to tone my midsection. If anyone knows of anyways that have PERSONALLY worked, then it would be most helpful. Thanks!

    • ANSWER:
      I heard that a diet high in calcium helps in shedding fat. There was a re-run with Dr. Oz on Oprah yesterday that proved this in a study. Good luck!

14. QUESTION:
    How is it possible to eat low sodium and low sugar diets?
    I can get a handle on the low calorie diets, there are plenty of good meals I can make that are low calorie.

    But now all the science is saying diets should be low sugar and low sodium. What the heck am I supposed to cook that falls in this range now? I have no idea what to even buy at the grocery store to avoid BOTH sugar and sodium.

    Any ideas of some good uncomplicated meals that are not just salad after salad and/or just skinless chicken breast.
    what are pilipino foods?

    • ANSWER:
      all you need to do is to eat pilipino foods...pilipino foods are very delicious than any other food

15. QUESTION:
    What diets have actually worked for you?
    I'm a firm believer in not just dieting but creating a healthy lifestyle, something that a person can stick to. With that being said, what diets have worked for you? Have you stuck to them and made them apart of your lifestyle or did you just diet short term?

    • ANSWER:
      I think I've tried to lose weight with all sorts of diets such as the soup diet and shakes, and also eating under a dangerous 600 calories or skipping meals which was all out of desperation. I finally took the time to feed some knowledge into my head on healthy eating and excercising and soon realised that commitment was all that it took to make ones success. I cut out late night snacking and watched my food portions. It depends on every individual and their obstacles.

      I lost over 35 lbs from including lots of physical activity into my daily routines and watching what I put in my mouth. Now and again I will eat at fast food places or treat myself to ice cream but it's not as much as I used to before. Today I'm still kicking near a 40 lb loss and plan to practice healthy eating and excercise for the rest of my life... or else it wouldn't be a 'lifestyle change'

16. QUESTION:
    What would ySometimes people with low iron in their diets develope a condition where blood does not c?
    Sometimes people with low iron in their diets develope a condition in which their blood does not contain the normal amount of oxygen. Explain why this is so.

    • ANSWER:
      Loosely speaking, iron helps in transporting oxygen in the blood. Without iron, efficiency of blood to carry oxygen is greatly reduced, called anemia.

      Check out these sites:

      http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/anaemia_iron.html

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_deficiency_anemia

17. QUESTION:
    What are the diets of peasants and nobles during Medieval times?
    Compare their diets (everyday food), the nobles and the peasants. what did the two different classes eat? Describe table manners and customs regarding eating and dining. Please attach a source!

    • ANSWER:
      what kind of homework is this?

18. QUESTION:
    What makes weight watchers different from the rest of these diets?
    I've always wanted to try weight watchers, but its so expensive is it really worth it ,i just want to know whats makes it different from the rest of all these diets. How does it work?

    • ANSWER:
      Lots of great answers so far. I tried doing WW on my own with my wife(who is a lifetime member) and ended up quitting every time. I finally decided to officially join and am down 16 lbs in 7 weeks. I'm not sure what it is about joining (the weigh in?) but this is the only time it has worked for me.

      I think what makes it different is that you don't have to eat a special diet to do it. You can eat all of your usual 'comfort' foods, you just need to get the portions under control which it teaches you how to do. The article below explains how to do it without joining if you so choose...

19. QUESTION:
    What are some diets that lowers and control insulin levels?
    I have Acanthosis Nigricans. I'm not sure if I'm diabetic. I want to get checked soon. I heard that if my insulin levels are over active, it will trigor my skin disorder. Please, don't tell me to go to the doctor... I AM going to go. LOL I just want more information about diets to lower my insulin levels. What should I expect to deprive myself of?
    LOL "DR." How do you know I don't have an over active pancreas without running a test on me?

    • ANSWER:
      The Paleo Diet, or Primal eating - basically you look at the foods available to you at the store and try to choose those that closely represent what a hunter gatherer would eat.
      http://www.paleovillage.com/2011/05/30/paleo-diet-and-type-2-diabetes/
      http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes/

      Both diets are focused on the idea that most of the foods that are common to westernized people today haven't been a part of our diets for most of human existence. So cutting whole grains, sugar, and seed oils like Canola, soybean, vegetable/corn oils. Once you remove those foods you lower your levels of inflammation, which corrects hormonal issues (like insulin resistance, which is a sign your body is producing a lot of insulin but isn't responding to it).

      To the "Doctor:" Type 2 diabetes doesn't always mean an "under functioning of pancreas" Haha. It's often an overactive pancreas but the problem is your body doesn't respond to all the insulin.
      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001356/

20. QUESTION:
    What are the craziest diets you have ever heard?
    I have heard of the water diet, jolly rancher diet and the not eating 'diet'!

    Lol i think that these are all nuts!

    Any other weird diets that you have heard of?

    • ANSWER:
      This one soup made out of onions and tomatoes... basically you eat as much as you can of this soup and only this soup. My sister and mother were crazy and desperate enough to try this one. I passed...

21. QUESTION:
    Are juice diets good for morbitley obeise people?
    I was wondering because i wanted to do the lemonade juice diet for awile. but im planning on losing weight by june so would it come back. and what other juice diets are there. also i found out last week that i have dibetes the ones where i have to take pills for it so im wondrin maybe can i drink hot green tea and honey? or a tea diet? Sorry if confusing.

    Please Help And THANK YOU!

    • ANSWER:
      The body is smart enough to prevent you from losing weight by going on a low calorie diet over the long term. Your metabolism will slow and I guarantee you will not lose weight this way. There have been many high quality scientific studies that show this.

      I've tried most diets that have been published. The only diet that worked for me is one that I can continue as a new lifestyle and one that does not involve heavy investment in a program or surgery. It is considered radical by some industry medical advocates, but it is the healthiest diet according to other distinguished and less biased experts (Dean Ornish, T. Colin Campbell, Neal Barnard). I consume primarily a plant based diet (sometimes called vegan).

      I lost 50 pounds and kept it off. Certain foods are verboten and are totally unnecessary for health:

      + Milk & Dairy & Whey protein
      + Meat, poultry, fish
      + Eggs (even the egg whites are excluded)
      + Junk foods (packaged foods, convenience foods, commercial juices, preservatives, refined carbohydrates, sugars, fats, MSG, aspartame, coloring, "natural flavoring")

      Our schools, even naturalpaths, have been influenced by industry. Objective scientific studies support the fact that you can eat a balanced/healthy and nutritious diet for life by going vegan. You must continue it for lifetime. Each day you should eat:

      + Leafy green vegetables (calcium) - two portions
      + Flax seed oil or ground flax seeds (Omega-3) or equivalent - one tablespoon
      + Whole grains and sprouted or cooked legumes (protein) - five portions
      + Vegetables (raw and steamed, go for variety) - five portions
      + Fruits (raw, go for variety) - two to three portions per day
      + A small handful of nuts or seeds is OK if you are not allergic to them.

      If you eat legumes and whole grains each meal, you will discover that the vegetable protein reduces your appetite between meals by stabilizing your blood sugar. This helps extinguish the cravings for cheese, milk, ice cream, fat, butter, margarine, salt, aspartame, MSG, and other addictive and unnecessary 'food-like' products.

      To start, I'd read Dr. Dean Ornish "The Spectrum." Since you are motivated, I'd go for the most extreme diet, which is also the healthiest.

      Please be careful with low calorie diets and the Atkins diets. These diet philosophies sell a lot of books, however, they have been shown to be ineffectual over the long-term from one scientific study to another scientific study.

      A vegan diet is the first 50 pounds or so. After that, you will need to start a weight training program to build muscle and reduce fat.

22. QUESTION:
    What are some good diets and diet plans for a fifteen year old girl?
    I'm looking for a healthy diet.
    I'm not one of those girls who's really obsessed with my wieght.
    I just would like to tone my body and get in shape for the summer.
    So i'm about 5'4" and 140lbs.
    So can someone help me out with some HEALTHY diets and diet plans (:
    please and thank you !

    • ANSWER:
      whoa, time to lose a bit right! I would say you could have a protein shake at dinner, and then regular meals (but at half the size) at breakfast and lunch. For snacks only eat fruit.

23. QUESTION:
    Are vet prescription diets good for my dog?
    Why are prescription diets for dogs considered to be so brilliant, whilst I am not given a prescription diet which is completely 'balanced' for my own health condition? If I were a dog with Additon's Disease, I would be offered Hills ID, and my owner would be told that it would help with my condition. Because I am human, there is no such thing as a 'balanced' prescription diet. Does anyone have any ideas why this is so?

    • ANSWER:
      They are NOT brilliant at all. It's crap disguised as science.
      Late Entry : thank you little shyt for thumbs down
      Can't see YOUR answer though )) Prick!
      I rest my case ))

24. QUESTION:
    What sortof exercises and diets do models do to get in shape?
    what kind of exercises do they do to look the way they do? do they just exercise and not really eat much? and what do their diets consist of?

    • ANSWER:
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25. QUESTION:
    What diets work quickly and significantly?
    What diets have you tried that actually work and are quick? I am just trying to find a good diet

    • ANSWER:
      south beach diet works amazing. i lost 10 lbs the first week. i did it after i had my daughter and i lost it fast but still was healthy. plus i exercised, but not outrageously.

      good luck

26. QUESTION:
    What are the best diets for a 21 year nold mom in college?
    Im 21 and im in college, im married also. I am looking to lose about 15 pds that I gained from having my son who is a year old. What are the best diets that will work for my busy scedule? I need to know what to eat and what not and it cant be very costly?

    • ANSWER:
      Totall free: http://www.sparkpeople.com/

27. QUESTION:
    How to reduce the GCT count during 8th month by diets?
    Hi. This is my 30th week of pregnancy. I had to do the GCT test and it was high. Ma gynecologist prescribed tablets for reducing ma GCT count. But I heard from my few friends that there is no need to take medicines and we can control it by following diets. Can anyone tell me the proper diet to reduce the GCT count. If anyone knows then please suggest me the tips and diets to follow.

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28. QUESTION:
    What is the fastest way to lose weight without fasting or crash diets?
    Need to lose weight! After I hit age 30, I can't seem to lose weight. I have changed the way I eat, have gone walking and running and I don't seem to being losing anything. Need helpful advice. I don't want to do any crash diets or pills. Please help!

    • ANSWER:
      You need to boost your metabolism back up to where it used to be. I am over 45, and lost 25 in 5 months by doing it the old-fashioned way; exercise and calorie counting.

      I worked up to going to aerobics classes 5 days per week, and lifted weights every other day. I limited my calorie intake to 1200 per day and made sure I ate healthy foods and took multi-vitamins.

      I am now a size 3, down from a size 12, and my muscles are extremely well-defined and sexy. I get whistles from the college boys now. The first couple months I started this I hated it, but I forced myself to go NO MATTER WHAT every day, and by the fourth month I started to see and feel a huge difference. It is worth it - Just DO It!

29. QUESTION:
    What is the one thing that all diets that work have in common?
    No matter how you slice it - the one thing that all diets have that work - everything from Atkins to South Beach -- is calorie reduction. All these "diets" are just tricks to get you to eat less. Sure, the Atkins has a metabolic effect by lowering carb intake, but everyone I know who has tried Atkins has ALSO reduced their calories (even if they didn't do it consciously). They find themselves ordering the steak dinner at a restaurant and discarding the baked potato. Well, that jumbo backed potato has several hundred calories. If you eat your steak, green vegetable, and a soup, but skipped the potato - what have you done? Reduced calories!

    With all these juice diets and soup diets -- weight watchers -- and all the rest -- add them up! People doing these things are eating less!

    People! Eat less and eat right! That's the way to do it. Don't do Atkins or juice diets. Don't starve yourself. Take in 500 calories a day less than you burn, and you WILL lose weight.

    • ANSWER:
      to put it more exactly, less calories go in than go out. You could eat 3000 calories a day, as long as you were burning 3500 calories and you'd lose weight.

      If you are a completely inactive slug, you may need to consider eating next to nothing. On the other hand, if you engage in vigorous aerobic exercise every day, you can continue to eat what you used to eat in your former lazy slug life and you will probably lose plenty of weight.

      To put it another way: "get off your @ss and deal with it!"

30. QUESTION:
    Are there any fad diets out there that actually work?
    The Atkins diet is definitely unhealthy, but are there any other fad diets out there that work? I need to lose some weight, and I've tried a few of the diets out there, but most of them have made me into an even bigger fat stinking hog. Are there any that work?

    • ANSWER:
      Nope. It's always back to basics.

31. QUESTION:
    Are their any diets that follow the food pyramid at least almost perfectly?
    I am not fat. I am a skinny teenager who doesn't want to become a fat adult. It has happened to a lot of people in my family and I don't want to be like them. I don't want to go on a hardcore diet I just think that maybe I am eating to much junk food because I am eating a lot. I still want to be able to get the sweets and other good foods I like so do you know any diets that might work for me.

    • ANSWER:
      welll , if you dont want to change wht you eat ,
      you could always use the method i use :
      "breakfast like a king,lunch like a queen and dinner like a pauper"

      basically it means, have a big breakfast , a fairly decent sized lunch and just enough to curb your hunger for dinner.so you can eat all your good foods during the day and you'll have more time to burn them off.also more healthier as breakfast is meant to be the most important meal of the day and boosts your metabolism ...

32. QUESTION:
    What diets make you lose weight super fasr and also increase metabolism?
    I REALLY need help. I have to lose almost 20 kg by Feb 2010....
    Can you please suggest any diets, that are easy to stick to.. ( ones where you don't stack that weight back on after you return to eating normally)
    I also Don't enjoy exercise that much I don't want to to do more the 40 mins a day.. ( don't have time to join a gym)

    Please Help!

    • ANSWER:
      go wheat free. No pasta, pizza, bread and so on. And no food
      after 7 p.m. People achieve marvellous results with it. Depending on
      your initial weight, you can drop upwards from 20 pounds a month. If
      you don't eat wheat then you don't eat all those sticky, fatty goey
      cakes, you don't eat junk food, and you don't eat biscuits. But your
      diet is still balanced. It costs nothing, and you do not have to
      calculate points or to buy special meals or plans.

33. QUESTION:
    What is a good website with workouts, diets, and weightloss tips?
    I am 17 and want to get my body fit.
    I have boobs and a butt, but I would like to tone and loose a little weight.
    Any good sites with tips, workout plans, and diets?

    • ANSWER:
      bodybuilding.com

      check it out, it's very good, they also have forum sections that will fit perfectly for your goals.

34. QUESTION:
    What are healthy eating habits without diets?
    Diets don't work. I have tried almost every diet. Even laxatives. I stay on a diet for a while and lose weight but then it gets old and I start with the old habits again. At times I eat out of emotions. Any suggestions?

    • ANSWER:
      I'm really glad you figured this out! It's not about being on a diet, it's about making healthy choices everyday so that you can manage your weight and keep your body healthy for life. Don't punish yourself if you eat something you shouldn't. Don't deprive yourself of your favorite food. Just try to eat anything fatty in moderation, and don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't eat carbs, cheese, or anything else. You can eat whatever you like as long as you're sensible about portions. I never limit what I eat, I just try to eat healthy foods. And if I have half a pizza every once in a while, that's not going to phase me.

      Some general guidelines:

      Don't drink sugary stuff. Soda, juice drinks, and alcohol all have empty calories and not much nutrition. So there's not really a point in drinking them. You should also drink tons of water (at least 8-10 glasses a day). If you're bored with water, make ice tea at home, and don't add sugar (or add a small amount if you need to.) Pure juice is also OK - certainly better than soda, but it does have a lot of sugar.

      Stick to lean dairy. Low-fat cottage cheese is a great snack because it has lots of protein. A serving of plain yogurt has 45% of your calcium. So don't limit these, just buy the low fat kind. If you're a cheese addict, try to stick to hard cheeses like parmesan, romano, and asiago because they generally have much lower fat contents - great sprinkled over a salad or pasta or eaten by themselves.

      Eat tons of vegetables and fruit. Fruit is my favorite snack. Delicious, tons of vitamins, nutritious, filling, fiber-rich. Eat as much fruit and veggies as you like. Just skip the added butter or sugar.

      Lean proteins. Avoid red meats. If you eat chicken, make it skinless and make sure it is cooked sensibly. If you make it at home, use olive oil rather than butter during cooking - the two oils may have the same fat content, but olive oil is much better for your heart.

      Remove junk food from the house. Instead, stock up on healthy snacks. Dried fruit is a great one that provides excellent flavor as well as fiber and iron. Fruit is always good to have around. Nuts (raw ones, without added salt) are a great high-protein snack. They're high in calories, but I don't think anyone's ever gotten fat from eating too many almonds to be honest, and they are full of good-for-you fats that keep your skin and hair supple. Fruit leathers are a good take-anywhere snack, as are low-fat string cheese. In terms of crackers, look for ones with whole grains, fiber, and low sodium.

      Carbs are fine. Obviously if you eat a loaf of bread in one sitting, that may be going overboard. But I think it is fine to eat as many carbs as you like as long as they are eaten in conjunction with vegetables or fruits and a protein source. So, if you have crackers, have them with skim-milk cheese, an apple, and some nuts. If you have pasta, have it with tomato sauce, some sauteed veggies, and a sprinkling or parmesan. Brown rice is preferred to white, and whole grain breads and pastas and preferred to regular.

      Cook as much of your own food as you can, or eat mostly raw foods. Processed foods are usually laced with preservatives, added fats, salts, etc. If you can make your own soup instead of eating it out of a can, that is better. Or if you are always eating frozen entrees, it would be better to eat the real thing. You can always prepare food at the beginning of the week and freeze it yourself, or just make a big batch of something and enjoy the leftovers. If you do eat frozen meals, supplement them with a piece of fruit or a salad so that you get something fresh in the mix.

      Good luck!

35. QUESTION:
    What are the facts behind diet? How can I find out scientific proof of diets that work without opinions/guru?
    Well here are the diets I found that work the best for most people:

    Vegetarian
    Frutarian
    Paleo Diet
    Bible Diet
    Monoeating
    Vegan
    Frugivore Diet

    So which one works the best. How do you know what works for you and what doesn't? There has got to be some truth to all these diets.
    Raw Food diet

    • ANSWER:
      Why does there have to be some "truth" to all these diets?

36. QUESTION:
    Can a hamster have sugar in their diets?
    To be more specific, in some diets in certain brand food they include sugar in the ingredients. Does anyone know how this affects hamsters?

    I've done my google searching, and to my surprise I didn't find much information. The specific brand is Hutch Klub Food - Hamster & Gerbil- 2 lb. They didn't specify how much sugar is in the mix.

    • ANSWER:
      I'm sure it won't hurt them! We had a hamster once and it used to eat those yogurt nuggets!

37. QUESTION:
    What are some good diets for my age and weight?
    I'm 13, 5'6, and 180 lbs. I've tried diets before (and been to weight loss camp) but I can't find anything that works. What would be some good diets or ideas to help me lose a large amount of weight fairly quickly?

    • ANSWER:
      Diets usually don't work. You should count your calories and get into an exercise routine. Even on a diet, you should eat at least 1400 calories per day if not more depending on your activity level. After you are at the weight you want to be, you can increase to 1800 calories.

38. QUESTION:
    Why are magazines so contradictory about diets and food?
    Why do magazines dedicate so much space to diets and quick fixes and diet products, yet on the next page it's all "Love your shape the way you are! Be confident!", Chocolate cake recipes, advertisements for unhealthy food?

    • ANSWER:
      the magazines I read sure don't offer quick fixes, they want you to live and lead a healthy lifestyle, and to be body confident, and if they do give recipes it's for healthier versions of your favorite foods, and the advertisers pay money for their magazine so I'm sure they'll take what they can get, try Shape, Fitness, Health

39. QUESTION:
    Can going on diets where you starve yourself lead to anorexia?
    Im doing a project on anorexia and I need to find out if going on diets where you starve yourself will lead you to develop anorexia. Thanks in advance and if you know anything else about anorexia please share.

    • ANSWER:
      Anorexia is when you simply do not eat or eat very little. Bulimia is when you vomit after eating.
      You don't cause yourself to develop either problem but I would imagine that going on such a diet could trigger the feelings that lead to having those problems. Both can sprout from a poor self-image and outside influence. It's different for everyone.

40. QUESTION:
    What are some diets that are for people who have had liver faliure due to drinking?
    My husband got news from the doctor that he is getting worse...Are there any foods he should or shouldn't eat to help him ? Any exerisizes that might be helpful for the liver ? DOES anyone know any sites about diets for liverf faluire patients???Help me please

    • ANSWER:
      I suggest American Liver foundation:

      http://www.liverfoundation.org/education/info/progression/

      their educational info, with free brochures:

      http://www.liverfoundation.org/education/downloads/

      plenty of info, and you can even find a doctor on their site, who lives near you and maybe of help.

41. QUESTION:
    Is there any way to get my belly flat without any diets or stressful exercise?
    Ive tried diets before but all they do is just make me more hungry,but when i do exercise, my muscles get sore. I try to continue the next day, but it just hurts too much. Any advice?

    • ANSWER:
      About the muscle soreness. You don't work the same muscle 2 days in a row. Allow 1-2 days in between.

      "But how can I workout 4-6 days a week then?"

      Work different body parts each day.

      For example. I work legs one day, then chest and triceps another day and a third day I work my back and biceps.

      I do cardio on the days I don't lift and do abs everyday.

      However, the muscle soreness gets less intense as you work your muscles more. Make sure to stretch before and after every workout and eat enough protein.

      Keep working out for about 2-3 weeks and your muscles won't get nearly as sore. In fact, you'll hardly notice it at all.

      But as for your original question: Can you get a flat stomache with no diet and excercise....

      Can you get fat without eating?

      No.

42. QUESTION:
    What diets (like the grapefruit) really work for you?
    I'd like to lose at least 20 pounds, so what odd diets work for you? Does the grapefruit, juice, or water diet work?

    • ANSWER:
      any fad diet will work if you stick to it. but as soon as you get off you are gonna gain the weight back. eat healthy and exercise. you need to make it a lifestyle, not just a diet. that way the weight will stay off.

43. QUESTION:
    What are some good diets that really work?
    I need to lose like 20lbs and I just now and going to start working on that...so what are some diets that really work.

    And what are some good exercises for the hip, thighs and belly...

    Does running on a treadmill work those areas?

    How about some good work out videos?
    How about some free websites that can help me out

    • ANSWER:
      Try fitday.com. It's free and you can keep track of your food and exercise and monitor yourself toward your goals. It's not super fun, but Weight Watchers totally helps. Walking, jogging, elliptical and strength training all help too.

44. QUESTION:
    What are some amazing crash diets that work?
    I am getting married in 3 months and been working out but need a stronger jumpstart, I read about crash diets but which actually work? I have no time to loose

    • ANSWER:
      There are times when you may need to lose weight fast. There are many crash diets formulated to help a person lose pounds as quickly and as effortlessly as possible. While this is not the best way to achieve a long-term weight loss goal, it can be useful when you need to fit into your wedding gown for the big day, or a bikini for the beach.

      When you are on a crash diet, you should exercise as much as possible. An hour a day of physical exercise will help push your weight loss fast, plus it can make you feel energized. Just be careful not to overdo it, and stop if you feel sick, dizzy or faint.

45. QUESTION:
    Know any really good fad diets?
    I know people say fad diets don't work, but there have to be a few that really do.

    • ANSWER:
      Low carb, but still have some good complex carbs.
      Fat's should be limited and non-animal fats if possible.

46. QUESTION:
    Are there any exercises or diets to slenderize my thighs?
    I have big, fat thighs. Are there any exercises I can do to slenderize my thighs without them getting muscular? Are there any diets that can help? Thanks for your help!

    • ANSWER:
      jogging is an excellent exercise because it let you lose weight
      evenly throughout your whole body. If you want to lose weight in
      specific areas, you should target them with exercises. If they are
      your problem areas, they will be very difficult to tone. You will have
      to work double on them. The best approach is this:
      1. Lower/control your daily calorie intake (control for normal
      weight, lower for overweight).
      2. Run/jog to lower your overall body fat percentage.
      3. Target your problem areas with exercises.
      Side Lunge Slide
      Stand with feet hip-width apart, left foot resting on a paper plate.
      Bend the right leg while sliding the left foot to the side, torso
      upright and abs in. Slowly slide left foot back to starting position,
      repeating 8-12 times. Switch legs and repeat for 2-3 sets.

      Lunge Slide
      Stand with feet hip-width apart, left foot resting on a paper plate.
      Bend the right leg while sliding the left foot back into a lunge
      position, keeping the right knee behind the toe, torso upright and abs
      in. Slowly slide left foot back to starting position and repeat 8-12
      times. Switch legs and repeat on each leg for 2-3 sets.

      Front One-Legged Squat
      Stand on a step or small platform. Lift left leg out in front of step
      and bend the right leg, bringing the toe of the left foot to the
      floor. Touch the floor lightly and keep the knee of the bent leg in
      line with toes. Straighten the right leg and repeat 8-12 times. Switch
      legs and repeat for 2-3 sets.

      Chair Squat
      Stand in front of a chair with feet hip-width apart, abs in and torso
      straight. Slowly bend your knees and lower and until you're almost
      touching your butt to the chair. Hold for 2-3 seconds, knees behind
      the toes, and straighten. Repeat for 12-16 reps, 2-3 sets.

      Heel Drops with Leg Extension
      Stand on step or platform with left leg on the step, right leg
      hanging off the side. Bend the left leg and lower the right foot
      towards the floor (a few inches). Straighten the left leg and bring
      the right leg out to the side, foot flexed, in a leg extension. Repeat
      8-12 times, switch legs for 2-3 sets.

      Hip Extension
      On a flat or inclined step or platform, lie facedown with hips on the
      edge of the step, legs straight out behind you with toes resting
      lightly on the floor. Squeeze the glutes and hamstrings and straighten
      the legs until they are level with the hips. Hold for 2-3 seconds, and
      lower letting toes lightly touch the floor. Repeat for 2-3 sets of
      8-12 repetitions.

47. QUESTION:
    What are some good easy diets that actually work? Any personal experiences? Any websites?
    I am seeking a manageable diet in which I can eat my own food and manage it without it demanding a lot of my time. I have heard that the nutrisystem works but it is not my own food. Could I have some feedback on some diets and if you all have tried some and have before and after pictures it would be nice to see them. Also, give the time rates in which how long the diet took to work and to have an effect.

    • ANSWER:
      I have read a lot about diets and experienced some of them.
      Hereafter the best advises to loose weight that I have put together myself and that I experience mostly every day. It’s more than a diet; it’s a manner to live and to appreciate tasty, healthy meals preferring quality to quantity.
      This diet is long lasting, not annoying, not too difficult and without negative effects. It helps you to loose weight and to stabilize your weight, which is, I assure you, more difficult.
      I think that the point 16 is for most people the most important. Nevertheless you find seldom something about autosuggestion in a diet plan.

      First your normal weight (not the ideal weight) following to the BMI.
      Body-Mass-Index = weight
      height x height
      The Body-Mass-Index increases with the age.
      19-24 years:19- 24/ 25-34 y: 20-25/ 35-44 y: 21-26/
      45-54 years: 22-27/ 55-64 y: 23-28/ 64 years and more: 24-29
      An example: You are 1,74 m tall (5’7”) and you weight 83 kg (183 lbs).
      Ft = 30,48 cm/ Inch = 2,5 cm/ Pound = 453,59 g = 0,45359 kg.
      BMI: 83/ 1,74x1,74 = 27,41 (183/ 5’7“ x 5’7“) = 27,41
      It’s ok when you are 64 years old and more. It’s not ok from 19 to 54 years.
      Ideal weight: 174 cm – 100 = 74 kg. It is tolerable if you have 10% more or less. More than 20% more or less is considered as problematical. But this scale is very rough and ignores important points as sexual characteristics, little stature.
      1. Eat what is at your taste. Have excellent meals with several dishes.
      2. Choose what is healthy for you. I give here only advices that are healthy for normally healthy people.
      3. Try to find out by what dishes you loose weight and by what dishes you put on. People are different in all, what makes put on weight the one, doesn’t necessarily put on flesh to the other one.
      4. Don’t eat more than 1500 to 1800 kcal per day. It depends on your objective. If you want to loose about 5 kg (2,265 lbs) in a week, eat only 1200 calories.
      An adult woman needs about 2100 kcal a day.
      An adult man needs about 2600 kcal a day.
      The best is to eat 5 small meals during well dispersed all over the day. But many people lack of opportunities to do so. And many others fail because they are hungry, as they eat less. So they haven’t often enough willpower to stay to their calories-limit.
      People who are good fat burners (high metabolism) can eat more calories without putting weight on. But with growing age the metabolism weakens and people put on weight faster. The metabolism weakens also by wrong diets, when you loose weight too quickly. After that the metabolism changes because you eat less food. And when you begin afterwards to eat normally a maximum is extracted out of the food and you put on weight more quickly than you have lost it.
      So the best is to avoid an unfavorable change of the metabolism by eating aliments with little fibers and many calories (sweets, meat, sausages, hamburgers, fish, cream, French-fried…).
      However if you eat aliments that have many fibers and little calories (vegetables, fruits but no bananas, whole bread, whole rice…) you will not change your metabolism negatively, but you will loose weight less quickly.
      5. Try to get a table of food-calories by downloading it out of the Internet, for instance.
      6. Fix a maximum of weight you will absolutely not pass beyond. Weigh you every day, the best in the morning. So you can easily find out what makes you gain weight or loose weight. It’s much easier than counting calories every day. And the result is the same if you weigh you every day.
      7. Eat slowly and without stress. Let smelt tasty dishes on the tongue. Remember that you eat too much and without control under stress.
      8. Do prefer good tasting dishes with few calories to dishes with many calories: fruit, vegetables, meager meats, meager fish, sweets with less sugar or sweetening or sugar mixed with sweetening 1:1. For myself I prefer good savory meats and fish and then I eat less or I eat several dishes.
      9. Before breakfast start with a cup of lukewarm water. Then eat what you like.
      10. At least an hour before the main meal, start with fruits of the season. Or eat a salad an hour before the real meal. So you will be less hungry before the meal. It is much healthier than taking powders diluted in water to fill the stomach up.
      By the way fruits taste better if you put half a strawberry on a slice of a nectarine on a slice of an apple. Half a berry of a grape, to put on a slice of a pear, to put on a slice of a peach. Or make a salad of fresh fruit.
      An example of several dishes prepared very quickly: Fruit / smoked salmon with salad/ main dish/ dessert.
      Prefer fresh fruit and fresh vegetables, or frozen vegetables, to fruits and vegetables in cans and glasses.
      11. Drink at least 2 liters of beverage without calories. Water / Water with lemon juice and sweetening / Water with fresh fruit juice and sweetening / Water with a spoonful of apple vinegar, or apple cider vinegar.
      After getting up drink a glass of warm water.
      Drink sometimes water with a spoon of apple vinegar.
      12. If you discover in the morning that you have put on weight stop eating the same day five hours before going to bed. Easier, don’t eat anything after 16 o’clock.
      13. Don’t eat much at the evening. Or dishes with few calories: salads, soup of vegetables without butter or cream, prefer milk.
      14. Prefer fat and oil made out of vegetables: olive oil and colza oil. Do not heat over 100°, then it is not healthy anymore. So it is not good for roasting, grilling...
      Sunflower oil is good for everything, because healthy and neutral of taste.
      Restrict fat made out of cream and extracted out of animal protein.
      15. Mental preparation is important too: be proud that you eat now very controlled, that you prefer quality to quantity, that you make a healthy and a tasty choice of dishes, that you eat like people who know much about good food, that you are self-controlled and have got a strong will to do right, that you have made new experiences and that you know more than many others about good food, that you can share your experiences with others and give them good advices.

      ATTENTION:
      16. At evening, when you sit before TV, and when you are unoccupied, you risk to succumb under your desires to taste and to eat something you like most. When you succumb now by exciting your gustatory papillas by the slightest peace of food, even of very few calories, it becomes very difficult for you to resist. The only thing, which can help you then, is autosuggestion. Remember that if you develop good habits of eating and resisting to eating desires, it will get easier and easier to make the good choice and to resist to desires, but unfortunately the contrary is true also if you succumb. (By the way true for every habit).
      Try autosuggestion on the three dimensions: body, feelings and thoughts.
      Body: Drink a lot of water or tea (peppermint, chamomile etc.) without sugar or sweetening,
      washing and cleaning your teeth could stop your envy, take sweetless chewing gum, start an activity the best outside or wherever there is no food.
      Avoid by all means to stimulate your gustatory papillas otherwise it will be very difficult to retain the desire to eat something.
      Soul (feelings): Just say and repeat so often than needed: “I am not hungry”.. “I am not hungry”… “I have enough will and will not eat sweets”. “I have already eaten this”. I have no desire to eat chocolate or …”.
      Mind (thoughts): “I will eat that tomorrow morning…I will eat that for lunch. I won’t eat this in the evening. I won’t eat anything after four o’clock”…
      The principle is that you active your sub-conscience which acts on your behavior by saying and believing in these sentences. The stronger you believe in your sub-conscious powers the more you will succeed to realize your aims (everywhere and not only in your diet). It is a sort of placebo effect. As I said, it functions only when you believe in it.
      But there is a secondary effect, which is, I think, more important then the placebo effect. When you repeat these auto-suggestive sentences very often, you think about your problem. And by thinking about your problem, you normally start to do something like the propositions I have above under body, soul and mind.

      17. Mostly all diets have negative and only short effects.
      18. Make sports, I mean physical exercises, which make you transpire.
      Fact is, that if you are able to make sports during three hours a day, you loose mostly water, you build up muscles and you loose more or less 1000 gr. One hour of exercises is a loss of 300-400 gr.
      Be aware, that the higher you’re overweight, the more you are able to loose weight at the beginning of the diet.
      Don’t get disappointed when you find out that there are days you haven’t lost weight, despise of your efforts. It’s quite normal because men don’t make progress continuously but by steps. After some days of stagnation you will go on loosing weight at the condition that you won’t have lost your courage and your will. Then the mental conditioneering is most important, on this page the point 16.
      19. Tips for dishes:
      - Buy vanilla ice cream, mix fruit (strawberries or mangos or kiwis or.) in a mixer, freeze it, and mix the half frozen fruit with the ice cream 1:1. And you will get an ice-cream, better than those you can buy, with half fewer fat and half fewer sugar, and very easy to prepare.
      - Mix fresh fruit; add low fat yogurt and sweetening. Mix all.
      - Eat whole grain bread and rice. If you ask me on this side, I will give you an excellent recipe for whole grain bread easily to bake.
      - Eat only chocolate of more than 75% cacao.
      20. Last and efficient advice, try this:
      Fix your objective and limit the amount of calories per day according to it.
      Eat what you want in the morning and at noon.
      But in the evening eat fruits, or vegetables, or vegetable soup, or salad, or meat, or fish.
      Don’t eat at your last meal milk products, or sweets, or food made out of flour, or potatoes, or rice, or nuts, and I guess you will loose weight rapidly. This is similar to the so-called “food separation diet”. This diet has the advantage that you feel light after the meal. But here, as well as anywhere else, you must avoid, to take more calories, that you are able to burn. Otherwise you will surely put on weight.

      Don’t ever forget that people are different. No diet and no advices are necessarily adapted to you.
      So every diet has to be adapted to the patient, and not the patient to the diet. That’s what I would like to write on the door of every school: The pedagogical principals must be adapted to the different pupils and not the pupils to the pedagogical principles.

      P.s: It exists a variation. Eat as described above the first day, but stop eating at 16 hours. The second day eat only vegetable soup. And go on like this as long as you want. This is also a perfectly healthy and efficient diet.
      A recipe for an excellent soup: put in a pan olive oil and half an onion cut in slices. Let it blanch. Add a small potato cut in small pieces and vegetables. The best are all sorts of cabbage, kale, cauliflower and others with few calories salad, spinach, celery and tomatoes... Use eventually deep frozen vegetables; it’s less preparation and they have at least as many vitamins. By blanching the vegetables get more taste. Boil water. Add soup tablets (I prefer vegetable powder) and salt. Add the vegetables. Let cook. Mix all up. Add cream (more calories), or milk (less calories), or water (no calories).
      A last idea: if you eat this or a similar soup during several days and nothing else, and drink 5 pints of water you will loose more or less two pounds every day. It’s a healthy diet (I give only healthy advices), but it is dull.

      Good luck, much patience, much will and the more you believe in yourself the more you will be successful.

48. QUESTION:
    Can anyone tell me your experience with diets below 1000 calories?
    Not asking if it's healthy and not looking for scientific articles or information. Curious about people's personal experiences with very low calorie diets. Thanks

    • ANSWER:

49. QUESTION:
    Sometimes people with low iron in their diets develope a condition where blood does not contain the n?
    Sometimes people with low iron in their diets develope a condition in which their blood does not contain the normal amount of oxygen. Explain why this is so.

    • ANSWER:
      Iron is a necessary component for the body to manufacture hemoglobin. Hemoglobin -- the red pigment found in red blood cells -- is the molecule that binds to oxygen for transport around to all the cells of the body.

      Therefore, when iron in the diet is too low, the amount of hemoglobin in the red blood cells becomes too low, and the person can end up with an "iron-deficiency anemia."

      In that case, the lack of hemoglobin in the red blood cells causes the blood to carry less oxygen than normal.

50. QUESTION:
    What are some popular diets that one would be able to write a compare-contrast paper about?
    I need to write a compare-contrast paper on two popular diets-- I was wanting do use Weight Watchers as one, but I can't decide on the second one.

    I want to choose something that is very strict with the food-- like nutrysystem or jenny craig.

    what are some other "interesting" diets?
    well, i wanted to do weight watchers becasue you can still eat whatever you want, but you're watching calories, fat and fiber to create points....

    jenny craig food is loaded with salt and so restrictive....

    when i went on weight watchers after i had my baby, my diet consisted of coke, twinkies, water and cereal, and i still lost 3 lbs in a week......

    the key is moderation!!!!!

    • ANSWER:
      A great one to do to totally wow your teacher and your friends is the low fat compared to the atkins diet. America is the Fattest country in the world, and heart disease is the #2 preventable killer next to smoking (and that's soon going to change at this rate). Take a look around, every where you look its low fat this, low fat that. Well, why is everyone still fat?! Because Carbohydrates are the bodies 1st energy source. It burns carbs before it burns anything else. So, Limit the carbs and your body will start digging into the fat supply for energy. All fat is is just stored energy. There is a good overview for you, and its really easy to research. Watch a movie like "Supersize Me" for more easy help.