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Definition
Humans may alter their usual eating habits for many reasons,
including weight loss, disease prevention or treatment, removing
toxins from the body, or to achieve a general improvement in
physical and mental health. Others adopt special diets for
religious reasons. In the case of some vegetarians and vegans,
dietary changes are made out of ethical concerns for the rights
of animals.
Description
Origins
The practice of altering diet for special reasons has existed
since antiquity. For example, Judaism has included numerous
dietary restrictions for thousands of years. One ancient Jewish
sect, the Essenes, is said to have developed a primitive
detoxification diet aimed at preparing the bodies, minds, and
spirits of its members for the coming of a "messiah" who would
deliver them from their Roman captors. Preventative and
therapeutic diets became quite popular during the late twentieth
century. Books promoting the latest dietary plan continue to
make the bestseller lists, although not all of the information
given is considered authoritative.
The idea of a healthful diet is to provide all of the calories
and nutrients needed by the body for optimal performance, at the
same time ensuring that neither nutritional deficiencies nor
excesses occur. Diet plans that claim to accomplish those
objectives are so numerous they are virtually uncountable. These
diets employ a variety of approaches, including the following:
Fixed-menu: Offers little choice to the dieter. Specifies
exactly which foods will be consumed. Easy to follow, but may be
considered "boring" to some dieters.
Formula: Replaces some or all meals with a nutritionally
balanced liquid formula or powder.
Exchange-type: Allows the dieter to choose between selected
foods from each food group.
Flexible: Doesn't concern itself with the overall diet, simply
with one aspect such as fat or energy.
Diets may also be classified according to the types of foods
they allow. For example, an omnivorous diet consists of both
animal and plant foods, whereas a lactoovo-vegetarian diet
permits no animal flesh, but does include eggs, milk, and dairy
products. A vegan diet is a stricter form of vegetarianism in
which eggs, cheese, and other milk products are prohibited.
A third way of classifying diets is according to their purpose:
religious, weight-loss, detoxification, lifestyle-related, or
aimed at prevention or treatment of a specific disease.
— David Helwig
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