Diet

Diet

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

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Raw-food diet

Fitness; Diet

This is a vegan variant diet that encourages the non-cooking of vegetables, grains, pulses, etc. It can lead to protein deficiency. (See Vegan, and Proteins).

Low calorie - high volume

Fitness; Diet

These are foodstuffs that fill can fill a hungry stomach without giving many calories to the body. Vegetable soups are an example of this.

Low-fat

Fitness; Diet

This food labelling term denotes the product has less than 3g of fat in a given size of serving.

Macrobiotic

Fitness; Diet

This is a diet that originates from Eastern philosophies. Encouraging food choices to match the seasons of the year, it is mostly vegetarian, but also includes sea foods. (See Vegetarian

This is the collective name for all the life maintaining biochemical processes that take place within our bodies concerned with the breaking down of food, and the subsequent release and utilisation ...

Mormon tea

Fitness; Diet

Known also as Desert Tea, this contains a stimulant called ephedrine which increases the body's metabolic rate for the increased `burning' of calories. (See Calories and Metabolism).