Diets and Weight-Loss Plans
February 28, 2009The Daily Plate doesn’t endorse any one particular diet. We simply recommend healthy eating habits, particularly keeping track of the foods you eat each day.
Presented below are several popular diets that some of our members are currently on.
From Wikipedia: The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins, is the most marketed and well-known of the…
From TheBestLife.com: The Best Life program is not one of those conventional plans where you’re either “on” or “off” a diet. Instead it’s a way of living…
From Wikipedia: Body for Life is a 12-week diet and exercise program, and also an annual physique transformation competition. It was created by Bill…
Dr. Oz’s: “YOU: On a Diet”
HMR (Health Management Resources)
From the official website: HMR (Health Management Resources™) is a privately owned national healthcare company specializing in weight loss and weight management. Our programs offer lifestyle…
From WebMD: Jenny Craig isn’t a Janie-come-lately to the diet field. The program began in 1983 in Australia and started U.S. operations in 1985. The Jenny…
From Wikipedia: Macrobiotics, from the Greek “macro” (large, long) + “bios” (life), is a dietary regimen that involves eating grains as a staple food…
From Wikipedia: The Mediterranean diet is a modern nutritional model inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of some of the countries of the…
From Wikipedia: The NutriSystem Nourish Diet plan is a “send you the food” diet plan. Its sales in 2006 totaled $435 million through September, so it is a…
From Wikipedia: [The diet] advocates consuming small amounts of very bland but calorie-dense foods, such as extra-light olive oil (not to be confused with…
From Wikipedia: The South Beach diet is a diet plan started by Miami, Florida-area cardiologist Arthur Agatston which emphasizes the consumption of “good…
From Wikipedia: The Sugar Busters diet is a low-carbohydrate diet focused on eliminating foods containing refined carbohydrates such as refined sugar,…
From Answers.com: The Beverly Hills Diet is a 35-day diet plan based on the premise that certain kinds of foods should not be eaten together. The creator of…
From Wikipedia: [Inventor John] Walker describes the diet as approaching weight loss “as an engineering problem”, claiming that his approach enabled him…
From Wikipedia: The Ornish Diet is a somewhat popular diet that was developed by Dean Ornish M.D. in his book Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing…
From Wikipedia: The Zone diet is a diet popularized in books by Barry Sears. It advocates balancing protein and carbohydrate ratios instead of caloric…
Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers offers a “Points” plan and a “Core” plan. In the “Points” plan, foods are assigned a point value based on a copyrighted formula; dieters have a points limit they are not supposed…
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