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William asks…

What are some diets that I can go on to get a flat belly?

Specific diets please. If you can, also include a list of the types of foods that I can and can’t eat on this diet. Please and thank you.

weight loss cardiff answers:

While I cannot tell you what exact diet you should go on, here is a site that might help based on your personality. They have some information that I think you will find helpful.

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All the best.

Regie
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Robert asks…

What are good diets to steadily build muscle?

I’m 6ft 150Lb . I am athletic so I am in shape. I want to start building muscle so i decided to join the gym. My partner has been going for a while is guiding me through the machines and stuff. I don’t know a good diets to build muscle. Anybody have an easy diet that doesn’t include supplements?

weight loss cardiff answers:

Eat the foods that bodybuilders eat in the same fashion that they eat them (5-6 balanced and proportioned meals, eat every 3 hours). At least 70% of your muscle gains will be due to the food you eat, so that is the most important aspect to focus on. There’s to many foods to list here, so just do a search on the foods bodybuilders eat. They have it down to a science on which foods sets your body in the most anabolic (muscle building) and fat burning mode. Right down to getting the maximum release of good hormones (testosterone and growth hormone) and the minimum of bad hormones.

Edit: Supplements aren’t nessicary anyway and only a few of them give you a slight improvement (3%) over good healthy food.

Michael asks…

What are the side effects of popular diets?

I am doing a group presentation and wanted to know what types of nutrient and other things your neglect yourself when doing diets such as the grapefruit diet and Atkins Diet. I need three diets, though I only need to talk for 4 minutes.

weight loss cardiff answers:

The two most popular diets are:

– Calorie restricted diet
– Atkins diet

Neither diet is effective over a period of one year or more (Gina Kolata “Rethinking Thin”). The human body is architected to prevent starvation and was not designed to handle the amount of fat, oil, sugars, and additives in the standard American diet today. When you eat too few calories, your body automatically reduces metabolizm and stores fat. Calorie restricted diets go against the hard wiring of the human brain.

Atkins is down right dangerous according to Dr. Neal Barnard and Dr. Dean Ornish (among many experts in human nutrition). The risk of heart disease, obesity, stroke, some cancers, and diabetes can be expected to increase in this diet. The diet is high in cholesterol and fat and will cause cardiovascular disease

The one diet that seems to work universally when a person follows it for life is a pure vegetarian diet. According to the experts listed before and Dr Calwell Esselstyn, Jr. This is an ideal diet. I lost 50 pounds by changing my eating habits in this way. Vegetarians must be careful to get enough vitamin B12, vitamin D, and Omega-3 fatty acids. These can be added with supplements.

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Steven asks…

What are the different types of vegetarian diets utilized in society?

What are the different benefits and risks associated with vegetarian diets?
Are you for or against vegetarian diets?

Im am writing a paper on vegetarian diets and know nothing about them… can anyone help?

weight loss cardiff answers:

The main types of vegetarian are ovo-lacto vegetarian, meaning someone who doesn’t eat meat, poultry, or fish but does eat eggs and dairy, and vegan, someone who doesn’t eat any animal products.

There are many benefits to vegetarian/vegan diets. Modern animal agriculture (factory farms) is extremely damaging to the environment and also inhumane for the animals. The meat, milk, and eggs it produces is not as nutritious as traditional pasture-based methods of livestock farming either.

Diets high in animal products are also associated with many serious health problems. Personally I think the animal products themselves are not the problem as much as the sheer quantity of animal products eaten in the Standard American Diet (double the amount consumed even 50 years ago) and the poor quality of modern animal products due to the harmful practice of grain-finishing and routine feeding of antibiotics and growth hormones.

Speaking of routine feeding of antibiotics, antibiotics fed to healthy livestock have been implicated in the rise of antibiotic resistant diseases such as MRSA. 70% of all antibiotics used in the US are fed to HEALTHY livestock to make them gain weight faster and keep them healthy in overcrowded, stressful conditions.

Eating a healthy, balanced vegetarian diet has no health risks whatsoever. (Eating an unhealthy vegetarian diet obviously does, but not any more than an unhealthy omnivorous diet.) Vegans need to be careful to get enough vitamin B12, which is only available naturally in animal products, but can be found in supplemented grains and other products now.

I’m personally an omnivore, but I average about 80-100% vegetarian meals in any given week, and a fair number of vegan meals as well, so I support both lifestyles fully.

George asks…

What are some diets for a a lactose intolerant vegetarian?

I’ve been having a lot of stomach pains for about 3 years now and I never noticed a pattern in it. Well I’ve finally found it. After I eat or drink a dairy product my stomach hurts. But I’m also a vegetarian. What are some foods I can eat and some diets to lose and keep the weight off?

weight loss cardiff answers:

I’m lactose intolerant too.
You can take loads of soy products like soya milk, taufu, beans stuffs. To keep weight off, you can take grain/wheat/brown bread instead of white bread. Brown rice, rice etc.
Stay off cheese & chocolates (reduce chocolate intakes & sugar). U can take honey & stay off carbonated drinks. These have loads of sugar.
U must exercise as well, diet itself won’t keep the weight off.
A normal 30mins. Run/walk would do daily or even housework will burn the carbs.

Carol asks…

Are there special diets for the elderly with gastrointestinal problems?

Please let me know if there is information about special diets or gastrointestinal problems and foods or diets that are available. Thank you.

weight loss cardiff answers:

Anyone with GI problems might be on a special diet. There are so many organs involved in the digestive system with the stomach being the one most likely to be involved. You also have the gallbladder that controls the amount of bile and the pancreas with controlling the insulin as you digest the food. Then after the food goes through these systems the colon then is the final breakdown with is like the waste system where the final food either gets used or disposed of through the rectum. The GI doctor will let you know whatever special diet if any you need to be on. Good luck and God Bless

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