Archive for June, 2010

Snack Time Could Be Healthy

June 28th, 2010 -- Posted in Diet | No Comments »

Do you know what the hardest part of diet program is? It isn’t about less amount of food we like but the hardest part is stay away from snack. It is a fact that most of us like to eat snack while we are watching TV, reading books, or just in the spare time.

Snack is delicious and definitely fun. But it is also obvious that snack is far from healthy. Most snack products are high carbs and fats from deep oil frying. Not to mention salt and preservatives. As you like to eat chips or pop corn, you add high amount of carbs and off course, cholesterol to your body. Off course, you can get a successful diet if you keep eating snack. However, changing your habit of eating snack is very difficult. Well, it isn’t impossible but very difficult.

Rather than completely stop eating snack with high risk of failure, its better you change what you eat. Instead of potato or tortilla chips, or candy, you can provide fresh fruits or crunchy vegetable, off course with dip to make it much delicious as healthy snack. You still enjoying your snack while watching TV but the snack are much healthier than before. Off course, it isn’t the ideal solution but at least, it’s a good compromise.

Blood Type Diet: Is It Really Works?

June 14th, 2010 -- Posted in Diet | No Comments »

Have you ever hear about blood type diet? Or maybe you ever tried that diet method. Blood type diet is one of many different diet methods. Some people said that this method is the real answer for those who want to find to find the perfect diet program while others just consider it as another variety of diet methods.

The blood type diet is based on the hypothesis on blood type evolution in response to available food sources. According to this theory, each blood type should imitate the way our ancestors diet such as Type O blood, the first blood type identified from the hunter-gatherers, fits for high protein diet while blood type A, from the farming ancestors, should be vegetarians. Since this theory first published by Dr. Adamo on his book: Eat Right for Your Type, blood type diet has been attracting lots of concern and off course, controversy.

The pros of this theory recall that blood type diet really answers the question of what the body really need. But the cons also have strong argument with the fact that there is lack of scientific evidence from Dr. Adamo’s theory. However, each person has their own unique nutritional needs and preference. Is blood type diet really works? Well, it could be very individual.