The What Color is Your Diet Review

 The What Color is Your Diet is a diet specifically formulated for cancer prevention and not a specific weight loss program. It warns against fat and sugar, promotes exercise and espouses right portion intake of healthy food so it would be a natural consequence that one loses weight in this program.

Formulated by David Heber MD, PhD, the founding director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition bases his findings on the color of the food in accord with a scale he has crafted as to the right foods. Red foods are those rich in lycopene, like tomatoes, watermelons and pink grapefruit. Orange foods have alpha and beta-carotenes that also reduces cancer risk. Orange/Yellow are those packed with Vitamin C, while Yellow/Green are filled with carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin, for eye health. Green on the other hand is food with sulforaphane, isothiocyanate and indoles, which according to Heber stimulated liver genes. White/Green have flavonoids that help in cell membrane protection.

Overall, the program promoted good health but the sudden change may make many intimidated or have difficulty with it. With a little discipline, the plan may help not only in weight loss but also prevent cancer in the long run.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Hallelujah Diet Review

The core of the faith based Hallelujah Diet program is a heavy supplement of low calorie vegan fare, with 85% raw organic food and 15% cooked food. Formulated by Rev George Malkmus and his wife Rhonda, they have written diet and recipe books from their Hallelujah Acres farm to educate their followers on what they call as “God’s way to optimal health.”

Juicing the vegetables and plant food is the cornerstone of the plan and the program says that it is the most efficient way to get nutrients to the body. Normally, the body only is able to process 35% of the nutrients in food but when you juice it, according to the good reverend, the dieter is able to absorb 92% of the nutrients. This may sound preposterous to some nutritionists but the program also requires the use of exclusively sold by the web site, with a strong recommendation of exercise. Ultimately, you would lose weight with the lowered intake but the lack of scientific proof to support the living organism’s ability to curb hunger makes this diet program a little sceptical for one’s health in the long run.

 

The Duke Diet Plan Review

The Duke Diet Plan is a Low Carbohydrate Diet that emphasizes the choice of healthy sources of fat and the encouragement to monitor carbohydrate intake to determine their total caloric intake. This monitoring with an exercise regimen would assist in the four-week dieting process and result in a healthier individual.

The diet would be in place for four weeks and there are easy to use menu plans and recipes provided from the Duke Kitchen. It is quite similar to the Atkins approach but the Duke diet uses a moderate restriction method that lowers the level of carbohydrates gradually. Aside from this, there is a recommended exercise program and behavioural enhancement techniques to make for an over all approach to weight loss and healthy living.

The diet is good as it recommends exercise and lifestyle alterations for your general well being. All in all, you would have daily meal plans, exercise routines and habit reorientation which requires emotional, physical and mental discipline in order to achieve the benefits recommended by the Duke Diet plan.

The Biggest Loser Diet Review

Taking its cue from the highly successful reality show of the same name, a diet and fitness program is now being offered to individuals who need not go through the show to obtain its benefits. In this diet, there are no temptations offered, only the ones in your home, no diet pills or personal trainers screaming at your ear.

The low calorie diet is based on the television show’s 4-3-2-1 pyramid which is roughly, four servings of fruits and veggies, three of lean protein, two of whole grains and one extra. Also included are recommended exercise plans for your use while undergoing the diet plan.

The whole program is for twelve weeks and the regularity of small frequent meals containing plenty of fiber and protein would be able to make the dieter full without overloading on calories. You avoid appetite stimulating food as well as having daily workouts to help in your nutritional as well as physical well being. All in all, the Biggest Loser diet is a sound way to lose weight and the prize would be a healthier you.

The Cheater’s Diet Review

The theory here is that all dieters cheat and it is a fact of a dieter’s life. So, a diet was formulated by Paul Rivas MD that uses this fact to the advantage of the dieter. Here, the diet requires that you must be faithful to your diet on weekdays and this allows you to cheat on your diet on weekends.

The diet requires not only a change in eating habits but also an accompanying exercise regimen during the diet phase. But the window of opportunity to cheat would be thirty-six hours over a week’s time, which is roughly 9:00 AM Saturday to 9:00 PM on Sunday. All the other days and hours, the expectation of the diet is to eat healthfully and have as much exercise as possible.

The food program of the diet is Mediterranean style and employs the plate method with portion control involved. The diet also suggests “cheat foods” during the cheating hours and the diet itself allows the dieter time to relax from the rigours of the diet.

The Blood Type Diet Review

Peter D’Adamo undertook tests on individual food types and reviewed the reaction of the blood types to its intake. From there, he postulated that dieting, and the food intake, is specific to the blood type of the individual.

The premise is that the four main blood groups react differently to different kinds of food, such as the type O’s are hunter gatherer types requiring meat while the Type A’s are docile vegetarians while Type B’s are dairy eating omnivores.

Many have raised concerns about the premises and generalizations that the diet promotes but the proponents are vigorous to defend that eating the “wrong food” to your blood type that results in agglutinate red blood cells that clog up the essential functioning of your organs, leading to poor health. With this, the diet, after consultation with its sold material, can provide you the proper guidance as to the proper food to eat for your blood type thus making for a better and healthier you. As for the diet intent, the less agglutination of the blood cells, the lesser weight you carry leading to its ultimate prize, weight loss.

The Russian Air Force Diet Review

There is really no determination if this was the real diet enforced in mess halls throughout the Russian military but the look of the individual soldier would surely make for an appealing claim to its effectivity. This diet is good for a week with specific food items to be consumed at specific times.

The goal of the diet is to cut down on the caloric intake of the dieter and ensures weight loss in the first week and more weight loss if continued for a second one. Breakfast would consist of coffee and a slice of toast or a couple of saltine crackers. Lunch is limited to two eggs, a can of tuna or small chicken breast. Dinner would allow what was taken during lunch and a small salad.

The low calories available and the lack of nutrients during the diet period would make the dieter lose weight but some may experience nausea, fatigue and hunger pangs in the duration of the diet. Ultimately, the lost weight would be regained once the diet is over and done with, as sustainability of this diet would be extremely hard to do.

The Paleolithic Diet Review

The premise of this diet is that by returning to the nutritional consumption of humans during the Paleolithic era, one can detoxify and thus in the process lose unwanted and unhealthy excess poundage.

The diet consists of lean meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, roots and nuts and avoids grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar and processed oil. The basis of the diet would be the genetic adaptation of humans to the Paleolithic diet and thus be better for the over-all health and well being of humans by undertaking it.

Though some argue that current diet regimen is not an accurate representation of the Paleolithic diet, questions as to its realistic application have been raised. The logic that the diseases of civilization has been relatively absent in hunter gatherer societies because of the absence of calories is viewed as flawed, since there are many other factors involved in the over-all social conditions that lead to the health of the individuals then rather than merely focusing on the diet of the ancient peoples.

The Chocolate Diet Review

This very attractive fad diet’s main component would be chocolate as it is after all is the bane of many dieters and those with a sweet tooth alike.  The diet consists of low fat pasta sauces and different kinds of fruit to make subtle changes for the individual diet, plus a healthy consumption of chocolate.

The breakfast would consist of fruit and the snacks would include popcorn or fruit. Lunch would be pasta with low calorie sauces or salad with a low calorie dressing which also goes for dinner. An evening snack for this obviously misnamed diet would be an ounce of chocolate. In essence, the chocolate is but one part of the diet, but obviously for marketing reasons, highlighting the chocolate would make the diet more commercially appealing. Again portion control is essential and adding this with an exercise regimen would surely help in making the over-all weight program work. When you see the results, you can treat yourself more then with chocolate.

The Peanut Butter Diet Review

The beauty of the Peanut Butter Diet is that it helps you lose weight with very few restrictions compared to other weight loss regimens. Peanut butter is not only a common part of many people’s diets but it provides both the taste and caloric weight which can help one sustain the needed discipline for the diet in the long run.

The basic aspect of the diet is allowing the dieter four to six tablespoons of peanut butter each day. Breakfast would include fruits, cereal and milk while lunch would be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and an apple. Snacks are allowed only if it’s peanut butter while dinner need not be peanut butter packed, as a recommended meal would include skinless chicken breast, nuts, some fruit and salad.

Like all diets, portion control is an aspect that needs to be reviewed regularly. Over time, the diet is one of the least stressful ones available making it effective for one seeking to actively lose weight.