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Christian InTech Articles - Health Eating
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Get Up~Get Out~ Get Going
Get Up~Get Out~ Get Going … when it is best for you. We all want to “do it right,” and maximize our efforts to get the most out of whatever we do. For our diet, we’re concerned about the best time to eat. Maybe it’s 6:00, maybe it’s 8:00. But...
Holiday Eating: Party Hearty Without Putting on the Pounds!
The holidays are definitely a special time of year. These days, however, many women wonder whether "special" means happy -- or stressful. Do you know anyone who doesn't feel more stress during the holiday season? One thing is for sure: Stress is a...
How High-Carb Diet Plans Treat Carbohydrates
A number of popular diets are focused on carbohydrates. Some demonize them. Then warn you against eating any carbohydrates. Others in fact, emphasize a high carbohydrate intake. Here is how high-carbohydrate diet plans treat carbohydrates. (Such...
“Purpose” in Amsall’s Success Mindset Tripod -PART I
Here are the 3 elements of the "Purpose" leg in Amsall's Success Mindset Tripod ™ : 1. Clarity of Purpose or Know Yourself 2. High Value of Purpose or Love Yourself 3. Unity of Purpose or Agree with Yourself 1. CLARITY OF PURPOSE = KNOW...
Why is America Overweight?
We know that being overweight causes many health problems. It increases the risk of fatal diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. But what is at the root of the obesity problem in America? There are two basic causes for becoming...
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A Mediterranean Diet Means Healthy And Tasteful Weight Loss
Some weight loss companies have used "The Mediterranean diet" as a name for a diet consisting mainly of food that are eaten by the population of the Mediterranean countries. By eating such foods as one of the ways to increase metabolism in addition to calorie counting and exercise, people will lose weight fairly fast. Quite frankly, the variations in dieting culture among these countries and even within regions of each country is too broad to call it a specitic diet. So, rather than talking about a pure diet, it is more appropriate to call it the Mediterranean-style diet. Because even with all this variation in food culture and dieting practice, their dietary pattern has something in common:.
The Mediterranean people eat much fruit, vegetables, potatoes, beans, nuts, seeds, bread and other cereals. The protein they eat is mostly fish and poultry but in pretty low amounts and they don't eat much red meat. They also eat eggs as often as four times a week. Their most important fat source is olive oil which is monounsaturated fat. They drink wine in low to moderate amounts.
If we compare the Mediterranean-style diet with the average American diet, we'll find that the average Mediterranean-style diet contains less saturated fat than the average American diet. More than half
of the fat calories in a Mediterranean-style diet come from monounsaturated fats, mainly from olive oil. We also know that monounsaturated fat doesn't raise blood cholesterol levels as much as saturated fat does.
At the same time statistics show that the incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean countries is lower than in the United States. Death rates are lower too. At least a part of these differences can be explained by different dieting patterns, there are also other lifestyle factors that play a part. Until we know more about it, why not eat Mediterranean-style food more often?
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