The South Beach Diet is a low-carb diet reputed to improve heart health and achieve quick weight loss without causing hunger. It was created in the 1990s by cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston, as a better version, in his opinion, of the Atkins diet. He believed that the Atkins plan did not cater adequately to the …
The Raw Food Diet
The raw food diet is for people who want to extract the maximum nutritional benefit from their food. The raw food diet or ‘Foodism’ is based on the belief that food is best when eaten in its natural state or as close to it as possible. This diet has been around since the 1800s, but …
The Ketogenic Diet
The Ketogenic diet is one of the select eating plans backed by extensive scientific research. It is a low-carb, high-fat diet which aims to boost Ketogenesis, the biochemical process that leads to increased production of ketones bodies through the breakdown of the body’s fat reserves. Originally developed by Dr. Russell Wilder in 1921 for treatment …
The Atkins Diet
The Atkins Diet is a counterintuitive weight loss plan that, on its introduction in the 1960s, flipped the accepted idea of how to lose weight on its head. Rather than the eating plan advocated by other weight-loss programs, which were based on reduction or removal of fatty foods, the Atkins diet increases intake of high-fat …