Diets

The Fit for Life Diet plan is a food combining diet, based upon a 1985 book of the same name by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. The Diamonds maintain that certain types of foods shouldn’t be eaten together since if the body...

A food elimination diet developed by Dr. Ben Feingold, this controversial diet is used to treat ADHD. Dr. Feingold believes that removing certain chemicals from the diet will improve hyperactivity associated with ADHD...

This diet began as a component of the BBC daytime series “Bazaar” in which the creators of the series challenged the citizens of a British city called Fatfield to lose weight. The series was a success and spawned a...

Audrey Eyton, the creator of Slimming magazine, created this high-fibre, low-fat diet in the 1980’s. As one of the first diets of its kind, it encouraged the consumption of large amounts of fibre in combination with a...

Those whose doctors suspect suffer from food intolerances either due to allergies or metabolic disorders, often use an elimination diet to try to determine which foods have adverse effects on their system. When using an...

An elemental diet is temporarily given to those who suffer from Crohn’s disease. It is a liquid diet composed of all of the nutrients that the human body needs to survive. Patients either drink it or it is given to them...

A vegan diet plan which is as heavy on spirituality as it is on fruits and vegetables, the Edenic diet replicates the diet followed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The basic premise of the diet relies upon...

Known alternatively as cleansing diets, a detoxification diets’ purpose is to eliminate toxins from the body. Toxins can be naturally introduced via bodily functions such as the ammonia produced by the body when...

The Zone diet is an enormously popular diet plan created by Barry Sears, a biochemist researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which purports to help change your metabolism in order to fuel weight loss...

The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (or DASH) diet is a low-sodium diet whose goal is to manage hypertension. Backed by the Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the DASH diet relies upon eating a wide variety of...

A diet comprised of refined and sugary foods and heavy on red meat consumption, the Western Pattern Diet is a name used to describe the typical diet eaten by many people in developed countries. This diet is also known...

Founded in 1963 by Jean Nidetch, the Weight Watchers plan is one of the most successful weight loss programs in the world. The program has always focused on diet and exercise along with a healthy lifestyle as being the...

The Cookie Diet, developed by Dr. Sanford Segal in 1975, relies upon eating a nutritional cookie six times a day to help curb hunger pains. Patients are only allowed to eat the cookies throughout the day and then reward...

The Weigh Down diet is a Christian weight loss program developed by Gwen Shamblin, author and leader of the Remnant Fellowship Church. The Weigh Down philosophy is that people should only eat when they are physically...

The Cambridge Diet, developed in the 1970’s by Dr. Alan Howard of Cambridge University, relies upon eating extremely low calorie pre-packaged meals enriched with supplemental vitamins and minerals. It is marketed...

Based on the premise that eating cabbage soup several times a day for seven days will lead to rapid weight-loss, the Cabbage Soup Diet is widely considered to be a fad diet. While some people have had weight loss...

Very Low Calorie Diets (VLCD) are a type of diet in which caloric consumption is usually limited to under 800 calories a day. Very Low Calorie Diets can be undertaken via medical supervision or they might be one of the...

Developed by Dr. Fred Pescatore, the former director of the Atkins centre, this diet is widely viewed by many as a modified version of the Atkins and South Beach diets. Its name comes from the stylish New England resort...

The Breatharian diet is based upon the premise that food is not necessary to sustain life and that humans can survive on air and light alone. Based upon the theory of inedia, the Latin word for fasting, this diet has...

One of the few diets based on improving people’s morality through food choices, Graham’s diet was created to help cure alcoholism and overt sexual impulses. A reformer who lived in the early to mid-19th century, Dr...