Healthy Diet Plans: Weight Loss & Nutritional Balance

Healthy diets range from structured plans like the Zone or Daniel Fast to high-protein regimens for bodybuilders. Learn how to lose weight sustainably using lean proteins, or gain weight quickly through balanced nutrition and meal timing.

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Pros & Cons of Cherry Juice

Drinking pure cherry juice provides your body with powerful health benefits. It does, however, have a couple of downsides. To avoid unnecessary additives or added sugar, choose 100 percent cherry juice.

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How to Replace Butter With Peanut Butter

Although it's creamy and delicious, butter is a rich source of saturated fat. This is the type that can raise levels of unhealthy LDL cholesterol and increase your risk of heart disease. The American Heart Association recommends limiting your saturated fat intake to no more than 5 or 6 percent of your daily calories.

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Chicken salad

The Shahrukh Khan Diet Plan

Bollywood movie star Shahrukh Khan loves Pepsi, McDonald's and traditional Indian foods like butter chicken. Prior to starring in the 2007 film "Om Shanti Om," however, Khan began a strict diet and exercise regimen that gave him a lean, muscular physique.

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Grilled vegetable and chicken kabobs

Can I Eat Just Steamed Veggies & Chicken to Lose Weight?

You can definitely lose weight by eating nothing but steamed veggies and chicken. Like all diets, it depends on watching the total calories consumed, but veggies and chicken are low enough in calories that you can eat plenty of food and still need to be concerned about getting too few calories.

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Can Lack of Food Make You Hallucinate?

Undernutrition, malnutrition and starvation can lead to many physical symptoms and often go hand in hand with psychiatric disorders including anorexia nervosa and depression.

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Healthy Lunch With Cold Cuts

Presliced and ready to use from the package, cold cuts are convenient lunch choices. They include deli meats, such as turkey breast, ham, salami, roast beef and corned beef, as well as sliced cheese, such as cheddar, mozzarella and Swiss.

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4 Ways to Eat For Anemia as a Vegetarian

Vegetarians have made a conscious choice to take meats out of their diet. Along with that choice, they're taking away the best option of iron-rich foods. Don't worry, because you can make food choices to put iron back into the vegetarian diet.

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Can a Healthy Diet Reverse Hyperthyroidism?

While not a very common disorder, hyperthyroidism affects about 1 percent of Americans, mostly women. Hyperthyroidism involves an over-active thyroid, usually caused by Grave's disease, but also by too much iodine, another thyroid condition called thyroiditis, or from taking too much synthetic thyroid hormone.

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What Foods Should I Cut Out of My Diet to Lose Weight the Fastest?

When trying to lose weight, you need to cut calories while still getting enough of the essential nutrients. This means eating 3,500 calories less than you burn through your daily activities for each pound of weight you want to lose. To drop one to two pounds per week, you should eat 500 to 1,000 fewer calories per day.

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Side Effects of Pure Virgin Olive Oil

While olive oil typically doesn't come with negative side-effects, it is pure fat -- which contains more than double the calories of carbohydrates or protein. Therefore, overconsumption can lead to weight gain, which may contribute to heart disease and some types of cancer, according to "

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Blueberries and Oatmeal

Can You Eat Oatmeal on a Low-Carb Diet & Still Lose Weight?

Whole-grain oatmeal is a good fit with most low-carb diets, and it’s low enough in calories that you can easily put it on the menu and still lose weight. Oatmeal’s fiber satisfies hunger, and its protein helps you feel satisfied after you eat.

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Fried salmon fillet with vegetables

The 80/20 Diet Rule

Going on a restrictive diet can help you lose weight, but, like many other dieters, you may regain that weight as soon as you go back to eating normally. Making more permanent dietary and lifestyle changes can help keep this from happening.

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Top 10 Best Lunch Foods to Lose Weight

When you're trying to lose weight, lunchtime might feel as if you're in a war zone, especially if the only options are cafeteria fare or fast food. Watch your portions to control calories, and opt for whole, unprocessed foods as often as possible.

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How to Eat Like a Professional Cyclist

Nutrition is paramount for the professional cyclist, as well as for those looking to up their speed, stamina or overall athletic ability on the bike. The food you eat is used to fuel your performance on the bike, so you need to make sure your nutrition is on point to get to the top.

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Grey Sea Salt vs. Himalayan Pink Salt

All salts share a similar chemical makeup -- they're made primarily from sodium chloride and serve as a concentrated source of sodium in your diet. Specialty salts, such as pink or grey sea salts, also contain trace amounts of minerals that affect the appearance and flavor of the salt.

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My 5-Year-Old Does Not Eat

By the time a child is 5 years old, he should be regularly be eating a well-balanced diet consisting of vegetables, fruits, dairy products, meat and grains. Five-year-olds can sometimes be finicky eaters, refusing to eat certain healthy foods while preferring to eat junk food.

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Dairy and Mucus in the Sinuses

When you have excessive mucus, or phlegm, in the sinuses from a cold virus or allergies, the last thing you want to do is make your condition worse.

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