Diet

Diet

Food choices by individuals based on fitness, health, cultural, philosophical or religious considerations.

Industry: Fitness; Food (other)

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anorectic drugs

Fitness; Diet

These are drugs used to make people eat less food by suppressing a person’s appetite, and therefore lessen the intake of calories.

artificial sweeteners

Fitness; Diet

These variously named chemicals have lower calories than the sugar they replace. Find out which artificial sweeteners are used in sugar free energy drinks.

This is a very common method of evaluating individual people to see if they are under or overweight. It involves comparing their weight to their height by dividing the weight measurement (expressed ...

blood sugar levels

Fitness; Diet

The level or amount of glucose in the bloodstream.

cholesterol

Fitness; Diet

This is a fatty substance that plays an important part in cellular health; it is both produced in our livers and obtained from foodstuffs such as organ meat, eggs, cheese, milk and butter. Too much ...

carbohydrates

Fitness; Diet

These are compounds of Carbon, Oxygen, and Hydrogen. The word is commonly encountered as a group name for a type of foodstuffs that includes all sugars; which are known as simple carbohydrates, and ...

complex carbohydrates

Fitness; Diet

These are starches and fiber, like breads, pasta, rice, cereals and vegetables. Their molecules are linked in complex chains, hence their name, and are converted into sugars for energy release by the ...