Diet Health: The Dieting Cookbook with Grain Free Recipes

By Shara Hank

Diet Health: The Dieting Cookbook with Grain Free Recipes The Diet Health book features the Low Fat Diet, Low Carbohydrate Diet, Muscle Building Diet, Raw Food Diet, Vegetarian and Vegan Diet, Paleolithic Diet, and the Grain Free Diet plans. Each of these diets strive to give the consumer one thing, good health. Each diet results in a dieting change of lifestyle, not just a quick fix diet. By changing the lifestyle, good health is established and kept resulting in the desired benefits for eating such diets. If eating a junk food diet has caused health issues, it may be possible to stop these and help prevent others by changing the diet. The first section of the book highlights the low fat, low carb, muscle building, raw foods, vegetarian and vegan, and the Paleolithic diets. Each of the diet plans has a section with a few recipes to get started on the diets. A sampling of the included recipes is Baked Salmon, and Egg Frittata.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Healthy Lifestyles
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781631878343

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Diet Health

The Dieting Cookbook with Grain Free Recipes

Shara Hank and Beulah Driskill

Copyright © 2013

Shara Hank and Beulah Driskill

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Introduction

This Diet Health book is aimed at giving you recipes that help to make you a healthier person. Because each person has different dieting needs this book covers many of these needs, giving you choices with several different diet plans. The bottom line is to help make a good change of dieting lifestyle for the better.

A low fat diet makes an excellent dieting plan. The main focus of the low fat diet is in avoiding the saturated fats and in limiting the unsaturated fats. Saturated fats cause the LDL cholesterol in the body to rise. This can lead to heart issues and strokes from blocked arteries. Trans fats are the worse of the fats. These are the ones made from partially hydrogenated oils. These also raise the bad cholesterol levels. Trans fats are found in many convenient and processed" foods.

A low carb diet is a great way to lose fat and weight. The main focus of a low carb diet is to limit the intake of carbohydrates in the diet. While good carbs are allowed but restricted, bad carbs are not allowed. Bad carbs are found in empty nutritional foods that we refer to as junk foods. Processed white flours and sugars are bad carbohydrates that contain no redeeming nutritional value. Good carbs found naturally in fruits and vegetables are allowed in limited quantities. The low carb diet is also known as a high protein diet. Allowable proteins found in lean meats, legumes (beans and peas), and nuts.

Muscle building recipes help the body to lose the unwanted fat, boost the metabolism, and build the muscles. Part of a muscle building diet routine is exercise. Without exercise, the muscles cannot bulk up so it is vital to give them a workout so they will increase in size. Part of the incentive for working out and exercising is to expend energy. This is why metabolism boosting foods help to increase the desire to get up and move, thus in building the muscles.

The raw foods diet plan is another that receives rave reviews. There are a few recipes included in this book to get a person started on the diet. Most experts believe that a raw food diet should not be the only diet eaten. Ideally, a person should eat raw foods with other foods to provide a well-rounded diet plan. A raw food diet is a great way to do a body cleanse, because the foods are not cooked they contain optimum fiber and nutrients.

When people choose to go on a vegetarian diet they choose to eat no meat with the exception of dairy and eggs. When people choose a vegan diet, they choose to eat no meat, no dairy, and no eggs. Each of the diet plans in this book giving the reader a few choices in recipes that are both vegetarian and vegan. The vegetarian diet helps people to live a chosen lifestyle (of avoiding meat) and helps to lose weight and maintain a healthy weight level.

A brief section includes the Paleolithic diet plan. This diet is the opposite of the vegetarian diet. It is a popular diet plan today, as many find the diet helps to maintain a healthy dieting lifestyle. The Paleo diet includes a lot of meat and protein. While the Paleo diet is nothing like the vegetarian diet, it follows into the grain free diet plan perfectly because there are no grains or legumes in the ingredients.

The second section of the book deals with the grain free diet plan. People go on the grain free diet for a variety of reasons, the top reasons being they have gluten intolerance or a gluten allergy. Many will go on the grain free diet so they can eat healthier and lose weight. Whatever the reasons behind this choice of diet, the recipes in this section provide for grain free ingredients, with a huge selection of recipes.

The diets in this book are all healthy choices. Read through the entire book and make choices from all the diet plans. All the recipes are for healthy dishes. It is easy to plan the menu for a month or longer by using all the recipes within the book.

All diets work better if you include the entire body in the plan. Whether you are dieting to help treat a specific health issue or to prevent a health issue, or if it is to lose weight, or maybe it is just to start and maintain a healthy lifestyle, including exercise in the plan will make the diet work even better.

If you have a sedentary life, meaning you do not get up and do much physical activity, your body will suffer. The body is built to move around and if it does not the muscles lose their strength. The bones settle and joints become stiff. Fat builds up and it then becomes hard to move around. A sedentary body will become an unhealthy body in due time.

While you can diet and maintain somewhat of a healthy lifestyle without exercise, the body still needs movement for optimum performance. Dieting alone takes longer for the desired results to come about. If you are dieting to lower cholesterol, exercise will bring the results about faster. If you are dieting to lose weight, exercise will certainly bring about the weight loss much faster than dieting alone.

As with anything that involves your health, you should seek the advice of your health care provider first. They should go over your diet plan and any exercise plan in accordance with the state of your health. This will insure you are healthy enough for the diet, that the foods on the diet are in agreement with any medications, you may be taking and that your body can withstand any workout routine. If you are just starting out with exercise, start slow and work your way up to a healthy pace. Always drink plenty of water every day to insure you stay hydrated.

Section 1: Dieting Cookbook

Is losing weight easy? Well, the answer to that question depends a lot on how you define the word ''easy.''

Many do want to take the easy way out and this is rarely a good idea.

If you are looking for a diet that can help you shed 15lbs in a month, there are no easy answers. Then again, that statement can be amended slightly. You can lose quite a lot of weight in a month if you take advantage of fad diets that entail starving yourself via calorie restriction. No one will deny those diets will help you lose weight. Granted, the weight you lose will be mostly water and muscle. Anyone looking to target fat will find these diets do not deliver on expectations.

There also is that nasty little thing about crash diets leading to binge eating. Of course, once you go on an over the top binge, you will find yourself gaining all that weight you tried to lose in the first place, plus more on top of it.

No, none of these dietary strategies is a good one and they do not contribute one iota to losing weight for the