Diet= “What You Eat”

Diet has several meanings and one of them can be described simply as the drinks and foods that an individual consumes every single day and the physical and mental circumstances that are connected to eating. Diet can also be described as the process that describes how many calories constitute the drinks and meals that are eaten by individuals on a daily basis. Diet is therefore very essential since it helps us to understand what we are consuming, enabling us to live a long and healthy life.

There are several types of diets and some of them are as follows;

• The zone diet. This is the type of diet that aims for a nutritional balance of about 30 percent protein, 30 percent fats, and 40 percent carbohydrates in each meal taken by a single individual. The primary focus for this type of diet is to control levels of insulin helping us to be able to lose weight and to be in control of our body weight. This diet helps us to achieve the above by encouraging the consumption of fats such as nuts and olive oil, unrefined carbohydrates, and high quality carbohydrates.
• Vegetarian diet. This type of diet has other types which are such as lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, pesco-vegeterian diet, fruitarian vegetarian diet, and semi-vegetarian diet, among others. The most common type of vegetarian diet is lacto-ovo which does not include any animal based foods with the only exception being for honey, eggs, and dairy. This is one most healthy diets as various studies have made it clear that individual who follows vegetarian diets generally have a longer life expectancy and also have a lower body weight compared to those who consume meat.
• Atkins diet. This type of diet uses a low-carbohydrate diet which helps the users to be able to control the levels of insulin in their bodies. This means that individual using this diet can consume as much protein as they want but they have to avoid carbohydrates since refined carbohydrates causes the insulin levels in our bodies to fall and rise rapidly.
• Ketogenic diet. This type of diet is primarily used as a treatment for epilepsy and it involves increase of healthy fats such as olive oil, nuts, coconuts, avocados, and oily fish intake and reduction of carbohydrates. Ketogenic diet basically enables the body to burn fat as a fuel instead of burning carbohydrates.
• Vegan diet. Individuals following vegan diet do not consume anything that is animal based and this includes dairy products, honey, and eggs. This therefore, is more of a philosophy and a way of life than a diet since the individual who chose this type of diet do not just chose it for health reasons but also for ethical, compassionate, and environmental reasons.
• Raw food diet. This is where individuals following this type of diet consume drinks and foods that are organic and not processed in any way. There are four types of raw foodies which are such as raw vegans, raw carnivores, raw vegetarians, and raw omnivores.