Main 3 Objectives of Diets

When speaking of diets, one must know that there are numerous objectives that can be achieved by dieting:

1. THE MOST COMMON objective is loss of excess body fat;
2. Medical objectives;
3. Increase body fat and / or muscle weight gain.

There are many other objectives, but let’s try to focus on these three:

1. Loss of excess body fat

These diets restrict the intake of specific food, or food in general.
The METABOLIC DIFFERENCES and LIFE STYLE are two main factors that influence the effectiveness of dieting.

Sometimes, short-term dieting is not even effective. When reducing the food supply, the body reacts in an opposite way (by forming excess fat as a starvation response), once normal eating is resumed. Short crash dieting leads to less body fat on the short-term and to excess body fat shortly after the diet is ended. Therefore, it has a negative effect on the long-term.

2. Medical diets

These types of diets are focused on including or excluding certain nutrients (increasing or decreasing the consumption of food that contains them). The most important types of medical oriented diets are:

1. Diets designed to manage blood sugar level – Diabetes;
2. Gluten-free diets – Celiac disease;
3. Ketogenic diets – Epileptics;
4. Milk free diets – Lactose-intolerant;
5. Low-sodium diets – Kidney diseases;
6. Diets rich in fruits and vegetables and low in fat and sodium – Hypertensive.

3. Increase body fat and/or muscle weight gain

These types of diets are mainly used by athletes to:

1. Increase their strength;
2. Increase their resistance;
3. For their look;
4. For weight classes.

These types of diets must be carefully supervised and controlled in order to have a positive effect. The health condition can be severally damaged if the diet is not used properly.

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Brief Information on Diets

A diet is defined as the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what food to eat.
Many individuals choose the type of food by certain criteria, like:

1. Desired state of health;
2. Morality;
3. Religion;
4. Effectiveness.

It seems that in the last few years more and more people are concerned with their health, when speaking of diets.

The imbalance of consumed products results in either starvation or excessive reserves of adipose tissue (body fat) .

Vitamins and minerals are very important (poor intake can cause dramatic effects on someone’s health):

• More than 3 million children are blind because of poor intake of vitamin A;
• Lack of vitamin C can cause scurvy;
• Lack of dietary proteins can cause childhood disorders like Kwashiorkor and Marasmus;
• The intake of vitamin D can affect the absorption of other substances like calcium and phosphorus (other two very important elements);
• It is believed that more than 30% of world’s population either has or is at risk of developing iodine deficiency;
• Heart diseases and diabet are often caused by obesity.

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