Liquid diets are popular mostly for its rapid, effortless weight loss claims. With often unbelievable assertions of extreme weight loss, liquid diets are fads, maintaining their timeless appeal. And, in a fast-paced modern society, the convenience of consuming only liquids four to six times a day is undeniably alluring.
However, with the proliferation of new diseases and a desire for a defined, toned, muscular body, are liquid diets an effective solution to proper weight loss management or just a radical approach using a quick-fix elixir?
A liquid diet restricts one to a daily consumption of specific fluids with an intention either to lose weight, detoxify or cleanse the body or for medical reasons relating to pre- and post-surgery. Nowadays, most liquid diets are synonymous with rapid or sometimes even “instant” weight loss. Since liquid passes through our digestive system faster than food, then it is only logical to assume that a diet consisting of mostly -- or only -- liquids will accelerate the body’s ability to lose weight.
Calories and Liquid Diets.

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Want to live longer? As a dietitian, I think everyone should know that following a plant-based diet can reduce the risk of many chronic diseases and may even extend your life.

We’ve long known the veggie-heavy Mediterranean diet can boost longevity.

But a study in an upcoming issue of the “British Medical Journal” shows some components of the diet, such as high vegetable consumption and low meat consumption, are more strongly linked to longevity than other components, such as fish consumption.

Researchers looked at the diets of more than 23,000 Greek participants in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Moderate alcohol consumption, high fruit and nut consumption and high legume consumption were also associated with longevity. So tonight, till up on vegetables, fruits and legumes, and skip the meat. It’s a great way to lose weight, fight disease and make sure you live your life to the fullest.

A ten-year study of 545,000 Americans found that people who eat about four ounces of beef or pork a day (the amount in an average-sized burger) are at least 30 percent more likely to die early, compared with those who consume an ounce or less daily. Though previous research has linked a diet heavy in red meat to a greater risk of heart disease and colon cancer, this is the first big study to look at how it affects your life expectancy.

The results don't mean you have to completely eliminate beef and pork, says Paula Quatro moni, DSc, an assistant professor of nutrition at Boston University, who wasn't involved in the study. "You just need to eat much less." To make it easy:Don't quit -- switch. People who ate more fish, chicken, and turkey had a slightly lower risk of dying during this study, so use turkey for your meat loaf and shrimp when you make a stir-fry.

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o-It-Yourself’er or Pampered Pet? Who do you rely on to ‘make you beautiful’? An increasing number of women rely on beauty therapists and clinics to polish, deep-cleanse, tweeze and tan them towards perfection. It’s enough of an increase, that in the industry right now, there’s a shortage of beauty therapists and nail technicians to meet demand. But in leaving their beautification up to the ‘experts’, are modern women losing the skills to do basic grooming for themselves?A magazine's beauty editor observes the trend from Auckland. She writes:

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Just one in seven patients with pancreatic cancer live for more than a year after diagnosis.
The tenth most common form of the disease in Britain, 8,000 people are diagnosed with the disease every year and about 7,000 die.Previous studies have been divided on whether diet, and especially high levels of fat, can increase the likelihood of developing the disease.
But a new study which followed the eating habits of more than 500,000 people provides strong evidence of a link.
Scientists from the National Cancer Institute in Maryland, USA found that men who ate a high-fat diet, esopecially from animal products such as meat and cheese, were 53 per cent more likely to develop the potentially fatal disease over six years.
Women were less at risk, although a high-fat diet did increase their chances by 23 per cent, the findings, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found.

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The Mediterranean diet has long been hailed as the perfect recipe for a long life. Researchers have claimed that the foods are effective against a variety of illnesses, from Alzheimer's to cancer.However, a new study suggests that not all the ingredients carry the same benefits.

Researchers found that eating large amounts of fish and seafood or the low levels of dairy food traditionally associated with the diet did little or nothing to lengthen a subject's lifespan. However, drinking a glass of wine or two a day with large amounts of fruit, vegetables and olive oil, while keeping red meat consumption to a minimum did contribute towards a longer life.

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It’s been clear for a while now that adhering to a Mediterranean diet can lower the risk of death (in the short to medium term, anyway).

But the diet has many components, and it hasn’t been clear which elements of the diet are responsible for this benefit. An analysis published this week in the BMJ aimed to find out.

Researchers based at Harvard and the University of Athens looked at data collected from more than 20,000 Greek men and women who were followed for an average of more than eight years as part of a study of nutrition and health.

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New research has linked some of the food groups found in a typical Mediterranean diet with longer life.

The study published on bmj.com claims eating more vegetables, fruits, nuts, pulses and olive oil, and drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, while not consuming a lot of meat or excessive amounts of alcohol are all linked to people living longer.

However, the research also shows that other parts of the typical diet – high intakes of fish, seafood and cereals and low levels of dairy – are not linked with an increased life expectancy.

Researchers examined over 23,000 men and women who were given dietary and lifestyle questionnaires when they enrolled onto the study and they were subsequently followed for 8.5 years.

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The importance of dairy fats as part of a healthy and balanced diet was confirmed by recent scientific insights presented at the AOCS Hot Topics session on Saturated Fats: Facts and Feelings.
 
Recent studies show that in contradiction to the association between the amount of saturated fat and cholesterol in the diet and the incidence of cardiovascular disease, reduction of fat intake and concomitant increase of carbohydrate intake among the US population has led to unexpected higher obesity and cardiovascular disease incidence.

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The most basic thing to get on with after your job or during it is how you look and feel. It is unthinkable that a woman bent on “having it all” would want to be fat, or even plump, so I am now going to give you my diet rules. I’m not a doctor, but a longtime, hardened-criminal-case dieter like me possibly knows as much about diet as many people, including doctors, who write books and magazine articles on the subject. Many doctors don’t know anything about nutrition, incidentally. You’re supposed to check with a doctor before you begin a diet. Okay, check. He won’t have any magic to get you through the diet, but he can give you his blessing.
There is really only one diet rule you need to remember. Here it comes: To lose weight you can’t eat as much as you have been eating. To keep it off, you still can’t eat as much as you have been eating. It is that simple . . . and that simply awful! How you go about not eating as much is what all those hundreds of thousands of written words are about. On some diets, protein is the star everything up to and including rattlesnake meat is okay if it’s protein while others declare that that much protein will kill you! Certain diet mavens recommend grains and cereals (that’s the stave-offyour-first-heart-attack-with-roughage crowd), while my diet guru, Dr. Robert Atkins, believes all those carbohydrates in grains would do in hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) people like me. There are Ana evangelists and banana haters, egg promoters and egg detractors, dairy-food enthusiasts and dairy-food denigrators. . . .you know all about the controversy, so how do you work out diet and lifetime eating plan for you?