healthy diet can improve and maintain health, which can include aspects of mental and physical
Eating disordersEdit
An eating disorder is a mental disorder that interferes with normal food consumption. It is defined by abnormal eating habits, and thoughts about food that may involve eating much more or much less than needed.[11] Common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder.[12] Eating disorders affect people of every gender, age, socioeconomic status, and body size.[12]
A desire to lose weight is a common motivation to change dietary habits, as is a desire to maintain an existing weight. Many weight loss diets are considered by some to entail varying degrees of health risk, and some are not widely considered to be effective. This is especially true of "crash" or "fad" diets.[15]
Many of the diets listed below could fall into more than one subcategory. Where this is the case, it is noted in that diet's entry.
Low-calorie diets
- 5:2 diet: an intermittent fasting diet popularized by Michael Mosley in 2012.[citation needed]
- Intermittent fasting: Cycling between non-fasting and fasting as a method of calorie restriction.[16]
- Body for Life: A calorie-control diet, promoted as part of the 12-week Body for Life program.[17]
- Cookie diet: A calorie control diet in which low-fat cookies are eaten to quell hunger, often in place of a meal.[18]
- The Hacker's Diet: A calorie-control diet from The Hacker's Diet by John Walker. The book suggests that the key to reaching and maintaining the desired weight is understanding and carefully monitoring calories consumed and used.
- Nutrisystem diet: The dietary element of the weight-loss plan from Nutrisystem, Inc. Nutrisystem distributes low-calorie meals, with specific ratios of fats, proteins and carbohydrates.[19]
- Weight Watchers diet: Foods are assigned point values; dieters can eat any food with a point value provided they stay within their daily point limit.[20]
Very low calorie diets
A very low calorie diet is consuming fewer than 800 calories per day. Such diets are normally followed under the supervision of a doctor.[21] Zero-calorie diets are also included.
- Inedia (breatharian diet): A diet in which no food is consumed, based on the belief that prana but not food is necessary for human subsistence.[22]
- KE diet (feeding tube diet): A diet in which an individual feeds through a feeding tube and does not eat anything.[23]
- The Last Chance diet: General premise is that the dieter will consume only one low-calorie high protein beverage daily. This equated to no more than 400 calories per day.[24][25]A desire to lose weight is a common motivation to change dietary habits, as is a desire to maintain an existing weight. Many weight loss diets are considered by some to entail varying degrees of health risk, and some are not widely considered to be effective. This is especially true of "crash" or "fad" diets.[15]
- Many of the diets listed below could fall into more than one subcategory. Where this is the case, it is noted in that diet's entry.
- Low-calorie diets
- Main article: Calorie restriction
- 5:2 diet: an intermittent fasting diet popularized by Michael Mosley in 2012.[citation needed]
- Intermittent fasting: Cycling between non-fasting and fasting as a method of calorie restriction.[16]
- Body for Life: A calorie-control diet, promoted as part of the 12-week Body for Life program.[17]
- Cookie diet: A calorie control diet in which low-fat cookies are eaten to quell hunger, often in place of a meal.[18]
- The Hacker's Diet: A calorie-control diet from The Hacker's Diet by John Walker. The book suggests that the key to reaching and maintaining the desired weight is understanding and carefully monitoring calories consumed and used.
- Nutrisystem diet: The dietary element of the weight-loss plan from Nutrisystem, Inc. Nutrisystem distributes low-calorie meals, with specific ratios of fats, proteins and carbohydrates.[19]
- Weight Watchers diet: Foods are assigned point values; dieters can eat any food with a point value provided they stay within their daily point limit.[20]
- Very low calorie diets
- A very low calorie diet is consuming fewer than 800 calories per day. Such diets are normally followed under the supervision of a doctor.[21] Zero-calorie diets are also included.
- Inedia (breatharian diet): A diet in which no ubsistence.[22]
- KE diet (feeding tube diet): A diet in which an individual feeds
- The Last Chance diet: General premise is that
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