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    looking at one’s eating frequency and how it affects one’s overall health. This assignment allows one to see which foods need to be added into one’s diet and which foods need to be removed or reduced. Tracking and interpreting eating habits shows deficiencies and helps one to realize sooner than later, so they can start introducing these foods into their diet before complications arise. This goes for excessive consumption of certain foods as well. Recognizing over consumption is important as it can lead

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    Fad Diets Outline

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    Fad Diets are a quick fix diet to shed pounds in a short period of time. These fad diets gives you false hopes and dreams. While your body is thinner you feel great. When you gain the weight back now you are disappointed. Who really loses? Under-eating slows the body’s natural metabolism, setting a person up for further failure as soon as he or she comes off of the diet. Fad Diets are targeting overweight and obese people. Fad Diets are to make you lose enormous weight in a short time. Desperate

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    Assignment 14: Popular, fad, and Weight Loss Diets Taylor Skaggs Roll #735 Oklahoma State University Principle of Human Nutrition 2114 Sec. 007 The DASH Diet 1. Key concepts of the diet: A. What is the DASH diet, and who developed it? The DASH diet stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. The DASH diet was promoted by the United States National heart, lung, and blood institute. The diet was designed to help prevent and control hypertension. In addition to its effect on

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    Standard American Diet (SAD) is a growing concern due to its negative effect on Americans’ weight status. In The Okinawa Diet Plan: Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry Again, the Okinawa diet is suggested to be a large contributor to the low rates of obesity among centenarians living in Okinawa, Japan. In overweight adults, how does following the diet principles of the elderly people of Okinawa, Japan affect weight loss compared to following the Standard American Diet? Principles of The

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    Basketball is a taxing sport that requires proper nutrition in order to play at full capacity. In an average game, a good player could run three miles. Although much of basketball is running, it also requires many other muscles and abilities. In order to play the game, you need strength, power, speed, endurance, coordination, and agility. In addition to the many basketball games, there are also practises that would be on every weekday in which you do not have a game. With each practise lasting an

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    varieties of diet plans Each claim the best method to help you get rid of extra pounds. The more the options are, the more you get confused about which one you will choose. Before you decide which diet plans are suitable for you, here are some popular diet plans, with their definitions, pros, and cons. • Atkins Diet Definition: The Atkins Diet encourages us to eat lean protein and low-starch vegetables and not to consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar and flour. Moreover, this diet plan involves

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    saturated fats in the American diet. It inspired an article in the 1969 *Farm Journal* to ask the question, “Do animal fats cause heart attacks?” Up until the American Heart Association released this video, no health or medical organization had recommended an overall transition from saturated animal fats to unsaturated vegetable oils. According to the article in the *Farm Journal*, the video encouraged viewers to leave most cheeses, fatty meats, and eggs behind and instead eat low-fat or vegetable based

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    Contrasting the Atkins and South Beach Diets The Atkins and South Beach diets appear to be the same, but they do have their differences. They both suggest that limiting carbohydrates in ones? meals is a successful way to lose weight. Each diet also consists of a series of phases where carb intake can gradually increase. Although these correlations between the two diets make them difficult to be distinguished, they are in fact quite dissimilar. Whereas the Atkins diet allows consumption of all fats

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    Polycystic ovarian syndrome is the most common endocrine disorder abbreviated PCOS. The medical condition was first identified by Irving Stein and Michael Leventhal in 1935. PCOS was originally called Stein-Leventhal disease. Its name was later changed to polycystic ovarian syndrome due to the common symptom of cystic ovaries present in many women with this condition. Currently, it is the most common hormonal illness in women of reproductive age. Polycystic ovarian syndrome has many related symptoms

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    A balanced and healthy diet provides you all the nutrients that your body needs. It is important to stick to a balanced diet to stay healthy. Confused how to follow a healthy diet plan? Here is a healthy diet plan for women that they can follow to have a healthy body and mind. Your bodily nutritional requirements depend on your age, sex and activity levels. Women require specific nutrients to stay healthy. Today's many women are hard pressed between work and domestic chores. Eating healthy is

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