For Special Diets
Below are our 17 articles in the for special diets' category:
A Food Pyramid For Athletic Performance
Many athletes have very different dietary needs to those of the general public. It recently became...
The food pyramid aims to help us all improve our diets and live a healthier, longer, life. But for parents and children, the process of choosing...
The Food Standards Agency was set up by Parliament in 2000 – its job is to protect the public's health and promote consumer interests. It has...
The Food Pyramid is a very good guide, for most women, to the kind of diet that they should be eating to encourage regular and healthy ovulation,...
When the examination season looms, kids can go off the rails in all kinds of ways, but the traditional diet of fizzy drinks, chocolate bars and...
Eating Well Through Pregnancy
It’s important that you check with your GP or health visitor to be sure you are gaining weight appropriately and...
What Is Prader-Willi Syndrome?
Prader-Willi Syndrome, known as PWS, is a relatively rare genetic condition that results from the disruption of...
Type 2 diabetes is a permanent condition once it develops. The primary symptom is high levels of sugar in the blood – this happens when the body...
What Is A Vegan Diet?
Vegans eat only plant foods – they do not consume meat, poultry, fish, any dairy foods, eggs, or even honey. For many poor...
Most people agree there are different forms of vegetarianism: lacto-ovo vegetarians who exclude meat, poultry and fish, and lacto-vegetarians who...
Most people wish to lose weight, but for a percentage of the population, gaining weight can be important. If you’ve been ill, or have a medical...
The food pyramid is a good general tool to help you improve your diet, and a better diet naturally improves skin and hair condition, but if you...
What Is A Raw Food Diet?
Raw food diet consumers, who may be known as raw foodists or rawists, eat a diet in which all, or the greatest...
A strong immune system adapts quickly to new evidence of illness and disease, especially when travelling to a new climate or when the seasons...
What Is Gluten Intolerance?
Gluten is a protein that is present in many, but not all, cereals. In the West we tend to think of wheat as the...
What Is A Macrobiotic Diet?
The word "macrobiotic" comes from two Greek words which combine to mean ‘long life’ The diet and its underlying...
The Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is an organisation that includes doctors and dieticians who are focused on offering...
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