Diet

Diet

Food choices by individuals based on fitness, health, cultural, philosophical or religious considerations.

Contributors in Diet

Diet

Calorie is the building block of weight control. It's a measurement of heat. It is the amount of energy that is required to raise one millilitre of water by one degree Celsius. Calorie measures the ...

Amino acids

Fitness; Diet

Nine of these essential `building blocks of proteins' cannot be manufactured by the body alone and so have to be provided though food intake. People following a Vegan diet should be aware that it is ...

Anorectic drugs

Fitness; Diet

These are drugs used to make people eat less food by suppressing a person's appetite, and therefore lessen the intake of calories.

Body mass index (BMI)

Fitness; Diet

This is a very common method of evaluating individual people to see if they are under or overweight. It involves comparing their weight to their height by dividing the weight measurement (expressed ...

Blood sugar levels

Fitness; Diet

The level or amount of glucose in the bloodstream.

Cholesterol

Fitness; Diet

This is a fatty substance that plays an important part in cellular health; it is both produced in our livers and obtained from foodstuffs such as organ meat, eggs, cheese, milk and butter. Too much ...