dieting
Sign in to saveDieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated way to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases such as diabetes and obesity. As weight loss depends on calorie intake, different kinds of calorie-reduced diets, such as those emphasising particular macronutrients (low-fat, low-carbohydrate, etc.), have been shown to be no more effective than one another. As weight regain is common, diet success is best predicted by long-term adherence. Regardless, the outcome of a diet can vary widely depending on the individual.
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28 sectionsContents
- History
- Types
- Low-fat
- Low-carbohydrate
- Low-calorie
- Very low-calorie
- Fasting
- Exclusion diet
- Nutrient dense diets
- Detox diet
- Environmentally sustainable
- Effectiveness
- Adverse effects
- Increased mortality rate
- Dietary supplements
- Eating disorders
- Mechanism
- Set-Point Theory
- Methods
- Meal timing
- Food diary
- Water
- Society
- Weight loss groups
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated way to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases such as diabetes and obesity. As weight loss depends on calorie intake, different kinds of calorie-reduced diets, such as those emphasising particular macronutrients (low-fat, low-carbohydrate, etc.), have been shown to be no more effective than one another. As weight regain is common, diet success is best predicted by long-term adherence. Regardless, the outcome of a diet can vary widely depending on the individual.
The first popular diet was "Banting", named after English undertaker William Banting. In his 1863 pamphlet, Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public, he outlined the details of a particular low-carbohydrate, low-calorie diet that led to his own dramatic weight loss.