P.O.R.N. Diets

I am coining this term as I feel some of the diets out there are so radical they need to be discussed in one place.

We here from our favorite celebrities daily and some of us live for this. We follow them on Twitter, talk about them on Bebo and MySpace or e mail each other about them especially when a new diet is talked about.

There have been some over the top radical diets in the past like the 'Air diet', not a very popular one for obvious reasons unlike the 'Chocolate' diet. Then there is the more main stream 'Atkins' diet or 'The Dash Diet' or even 'The South Beach Diet'. All have there plus and minus points and their advocates and nay sayers as well.

The trick when it comes to diets if there is a trick in selecting one would be to thoroughly research the topic. The mere fact that there literally are thousands of diets commercially available shown on television, billboards or even your local Chemist shop.

Here will be many, many articles pertaining to the topic of P.O.R.N. Diets circulating our media and your opinion on them is most welcome. Maybe you have been on one and would like to praise it or maybe warn others away from it. Whatever you may like to share, diet related, please do.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Guidelines on Diets for Hypertension

By Lucille Green

Medical professionals suggest hypertension diets for those indivdiuals who tolerate this condition because the proof which shows regulation of certain foodstuffs and ingestion of others, being positive to individuals with high blood pressure. The difficult truth is there are a great many individuals walking around with high blood pressure who not even aware they are in peril. This can be prevented by employing the identical diet plan that is recommended for those who have been diagnosed with high blood pressure.

The diet plans suggested are low in salt and this cannot be emphasized enough if the sodium that you consume on a regular basis is more than the recommended total. Not only has this been proven to assist prevent hypertension but once the individual has their blood pressure under watch, the chance of it going up once again is lessened if the salt ingestion is controlled.

The diet of an individual with high blood pressure ought not take on alcohol because drinking more than a couple of alcoholic drinks daily will raise blood pressure. The occasional drink is not going to impact blood pressure but drinking too frequently will for certain raise it to higher points. There are some who think a glassful of wine each day will in reality serve to keep blood pressure low.

Vegetables are great for serving to stop your blood pressure from goin up and a vegetarian diet is recommended oftentimes by physicians who provide their patients a plan for keeping their hypertension controlled. This kind of diet takes in vegetables and fruits - foodstuffs that are low in saturated fats as well as the total fat consumed but dietary fibers are important likewise when it comes to observing your blood pressure at a recommended level. Meat that is good for those on a diet, to contain their blood pressure, are fish and chicken but of course the way the food is prepared and the vegetable oils employed are another matter that needs to be considered. The ingestion of fat should be less than twenty five percent of your calories for the whole day and saturated fat should be under 7 percent of the entire calories each day.

Trans fats ought to be under 1 percent of the daily calories and cholesterol should not be more than 300 mg each day. Although the meals you consume are not the fundamental reason for high blood pressure, the heartier you are the better the opportunity of beating the odds if you have a predisposition to hypertension.

The use of natural vegetable oils is advocated, which can be safflower, canola or olive oil, and the butter you employ should say "0 grams trans fat" on the label. The foodstuffs that comprise a great deal of tans fats for example cake, pie, muffins, doughnuts, french fries, crackers and cookies should be avoided. The infrequent cookie or piece of cake is not going to upset the entire diet as long as you don't make it a habit. Eating healthy now may prevent your requiring hypertension diets later, so by pursuing the dieting your physician suggests for you, the odds of acquiring hypertension are reduced.

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