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• Best Bet Diet (multiple sclerosis)
• Blood Type Diet
  Blood type diet
  The blood type diet is a nutritional diet advocated by Peter D'Adamo, a naturopathic physician, and outlined in his book Eat Right 4 Your Type. D'Adamo claims that ABO blood type is the most important factor in determining a healthy diet, and he recommends distinct diets for each blood type...
  
  
• Body for Life
• Breatharian diet
• Buddhist diet
  Buddhist cuisine
  Buddhist cuisine is an East Asian cuisine which is followed by some believers of Buddhism. It is primarily vegetarian, in order to keep with the general Buddhist precept of ahimsa...
  
  

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• Detox diet
• Diabetic diet
  Diabetic diet
  There is much controversy regarding what diet to recommend to sufferers of diabetes mellitus. The diet most often recommended is high in dietary fiber, especially soluble fiber, but low in fat . Recommendations of the fraction of total calories to be obtained from carbohydrate intake range from 1/6...
  
  
• Diet for a New America
  Diet For A New America
  Diet for a New America is the debut record of American band 58, the group featuring Nikki Sixx. It was released on Sixx's Americoma Records on May 16, 2000.- Conception and production :...
  
   by John Robbins
• Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension
  Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension
  The DASH diet is a diet promoted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to control hypertension...
  
   or the DASH Diet
• Dr. Hay diet
  Dr. Hay diet
  The Hay Diet is a nutrition method developed by the New York physician William Howard Hay in the 1920s. It claims to work by separating food into three groups: alkaline, acidic, and neutral. Acid foods are not combined with the alkaline ones...
  
  
• Dukan Diet
  Dukan Diet
  The Dukan Diet is one of the most popular diet plans in France. It is a protein-based diet designed by French nutritionist and dietician, Pierre Dukan. Although Dukan has been promoting his diet for over 30 years, its popularity has grown since 2000. His book The Dukan Diet is a best seller in...
  
  

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• Eat Clean Diet
• Earth Diet
  The Earth Diet
  The Earth Diet is a lifestyle designed by actress and former beauty queen Liana Werner-Gray. Although the original purpose of the lifestyle is to focus on the abundance of what the earth provides naturally, word of the diet spread and quickly gained popularity as a means to lose weight and reduce...
  
  
• Edenic diet
  Edenic diet
  The Edenic diet is the diet believed by practitioners to have been followed by Adam and Eve in the biblical Book of Genesis. The Reverend Sylvester Graham was a proponent, advocating a diet without meat—especially pork—shellfish, fatty sauces, spices, salt, sugar, coffee, tea, condiments, and...
  
  
• Elemental diet
  Elemental diet
  An elemental diet is a diet that proposes the ingestion or in more severe cases, use of a gastric feeding tube or intravenous feeding of liquid nutrients in an easily assimilated form. It is usually composed of amino acids, fats, sugars, vitamins, and minerals...
  
  
• Elimination diet
  Elimination diet
  An elimination diet is a method of identifying foods that an individual cannot consume without adverse effects. Adverse effects may be due to food allergy, food intolerance, other physiological mechanisms , or a combination of these...
  
  

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• Fatfield Diet
  Fatfield Diet
  The Fatfield Diet is a calorie-controlled diet designed to induce healthy weight loss, created in the 1990s by British author and The Sun journalist Sally Ann Voak. The diet was originally devised for a serial feature on the BBC daytime television programme "Bazaar", in which an entire village was...
  
  
• Feingold diet
  Feingold diet
  The Feingold diet is a food elimination program developed by Ben F. Feingold, MD to treat hyperactivity. It eliminates a number of artificial colors and artificial flavors, aspartame, three petroleum-based preservatives, and certain salicylates. There has been much debate about the efficacy of...
  
  
• Fit for Life diet
  Fit for Life
  Fit for Life is a diet and lifestyle stemming from the principles of natural hygiene, an offshoot of naturopathic medicine. It is promoted mainly by the American writers Harvey and Marilyn Diamond...
  
  
• Flexitarian diet
• Food combining diet
  Food combining
  Food combining is a term for a nutritional approach that advocates specific combinations of foods as central to good health and weight loss...
  
  
• F-plan diet
  F-plan
  The F-plan is a high fibre diet designed to induce healthy weight loss, created in the 1980s by British author Audrey Eyton, founder of Slimming Magazine, and based on the work of Denis Burkitt...
  
  
• Fruitarian diet
  Fruitarianism
  Fruitarianism involves the practice of following a diet that includes fruits, nuts and seeds, without animal products, vegetables and grains. Fruitarianism is a subset of dietary veganism....
  
  
• Fad diet
  Food faddism
  The phrases food faddism and fad diet originally referred to idiosyncratic diets and eating patterns that promote short-term weight loss, usually with no concern for long-term weight maintenance, and enjoy temporary popularity...
  
  

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• Gerson diet
• Gluten-free diet
  Gluten-free diet
  A gluten-free diet is a diet that excludes foods containing gluten. Gluten is a protein found in wheat , barley, rye, malts and triticale. It is used as a food additive in the form of a flavoring, stabilizing or thickening agent, often as "dextrin"...
  
  
• Gluten-free, casein-free diet
  Gluten-free, casein-free diet
  A gluten-free casein-free diet eliminates dietary intake of the naturally occurring proteins gluten and casein .-Controversial autism diet:...
  
  
• The Graham Diet
• Grapefruit diet
  Grapefruit diet
  The grapefruit diet, also known as the Hollywood Diet and erroneously as the Mayo Clinic Diet, is a short-term fad diet that has existed in the United States since at least the 1930s. . The diet is based on the claim that grapefruit has a fat-burning enzyme or similar property...
  
  

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• Hacker's diet
• Hay diet
• Herbalife
  Herbalife
  Herbalife International is a global nutrition, weight-loss and skin-care company. The company was founded in 1980 and it employs around 4,000 people worldwide. Herbalife reported net sales of USD 2.7 billion in 2010...
  
  
• Halal diet
• Hallelujah diet
  Hallelujah diet
  The Hallelujah Diet, also known as The Hallelujah Diet and Lifestyle, was created as an attempt to be a biblically-based diet.-History:The diet was first developed by Rev. George Malkmus, Lit. D...
  
  
• High-protein diet
• High residue diet
  High residue diet
  - General guidelines :Women should aim for at least 21 to 25 grams of fiber daily. Men should try for 30 to 38 grams daily.- Foods to include :High fiber foods include whole grain breads and cereals, vegetables and fruits .- External links :* livestrong.com...
  
  
• Health Management Resources
  Health Management Resources
  Health Management Resources is a provider of weight management programs, products and services to the medical community in the United States. HMR, a private company with headquarters in Boston, MA, USA, was founded in 1983. HMR helps to establish medical and behavioral intervention programs in...
  
  
• Healthy Six
  Healthy Six
  Healthy 6 is a personalised health solution initiative by Ruchir Joshi, Ahmedabad, India. Healthy 6 focuses on promoting healthy food and customised health regime...
  
  

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• Jenny Craig
  Jenny Craig
  Jenny Craig is an American weight loss guru and founder of Jenny Craig, Inc. Craig was raised in New Orleans and married Sidney Harvey Craig in 1979. In 1983, she and her husband created a nutrition, fitness, and weight loss program in Australia...
  
  
• Joel Fuhrman diet
  Joel Fuhrman
  Joel Fuhrman, MD , is an American board-certified family physician who specializes in nutrition-based treatments for obesity and chronic disease. He is a member of the board of directors of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and serves as Research Director of the Nutritional Research...
  
  
• Junk food diet
  Junk food
  Junk food is an informal term applied to some foods that are perceived to have little or no nutritional value ; to products with nutritional value, but which also have ingredients considered unhealthy when regularly eaten; or to those considered unhealthy to consume at all...
  
  
• Juice diet
  Juice fasting
  Juice fasting is a type of fasting and "detox diet" in which a person consumes only fruit and vegetable juices. Being available only in digestible carbohydrates, these foods are digested rapidly...
  
  

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• Lacto vegetarianism
  Lacto vegetarianism
  A lacto vegetarian diet is a vegetarian diet that includes dairy products such as milk, cheese, yogurt, butter, cream, and kefir, but excludes eggs. Lacto-vegetarians also abstain from cheeses that include animal rennet and yogurts that contain gelatin...
  
  
• Liquid diet
  Liquid diet
  A clear or full liquid diet, or a diet containing no solid foods, is often prescribed for gastrointestinal illness or before or after certain types of surgery involving the mouth or gastrointestinal tract.-Clear liquid diet:...
  
  
• Low-carbohydrate diet
  Low-carbohydrate diet
  Low-carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption usually for weight control or for the treatment of obesity. Foods high in digestible carbohydrates are limited or replaced with foods containing a higher percentage of proteins and fats...
  
  
• Low-fat diet
  Low-fat diet
  According to the USDA, a low-fat diet as the name implies is a diet that consists of little fat, especially saturated fat and cholesterol, which are thought to lead to increased blood cholesterol levels and heart attack...
  
  
• Low glycemic index diet
• Low-protein diet
  Low-protein diet
  A low-protein diet is a diet in which people reduce their intake of protein. A low-protein diet is often prescribed to people with kidney or liver disease...
  
  
• Low sodium diet
  Low sodium diet
  A low sodium diet is a diet that includes no more than 1,500 to 2,400 mgs of sodium per day. People who follow a vigorous or moderate exercise schedule are usually advised to limit their sodium intake to 3,000 mg per day and those with moderate to severe heart failure are usually advised to...
  
  
• Lutein-free diet
  Lutein-free diet
  The Lutein-free diet is one of several specific diets reported to be beneficial to people with autism spectrum disorders. It is based on the theory of phagocytosis of pigments first described by research nutritionist Sandra Desorgher The Lutein-free diet is also known as 'Sara's Diet' The diet...
  
  
• Lemonade diet

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• Macrobiotic diet
  Macrobiotic diet
  A macrobiotic diet , from "macro" and "bios" , a dietary regimen which involves eating grains as a staple food supplemented with other foodstuffs such as local vegetables avoiding the use of highly processed or refined foods and most animal products...
  
  
• Master Cleanse
  Master Cleanse
  Master Cleanse is a modified juice fast that permits no food. There are three parts to the regimen: each morning one drinks a 8 oz of water with 2 teaspoons of salt or a cup of herbal laxative tea; this is followed by six to twelve lemonade drinks during the day; and finally a cup of herbal...
  
  
• McDougall diet
  John A. McDougall
  John A. McDougall, M.D., is an American physician and author whose philosophy is that degenerative disease can be prevented and treated with a plant-based diet of whole, unprocessed, low-fat foods, especially starches such as potatoes, rice, and beans, and which excludes all animal foods and added...
  
  
• Medifast Diet
• Mediterranean diet
  Mediterranean diet
  The Mediterranean diet is a modern nutritional recommendation inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of southern Italy, Crete and much of the rest of Greece in the 1960s....
  
  
• Montignac diet
  Montignac diet
  The Montignac diet is a weight-loss diet that was popular in the 1990s, mainly in Europe. It was invented by Frenchman Michel Montignac , an international executive for the pharmaceutical industry, who, like his father, was overweight in his youth...
  
  

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• Okinawa diet
  Okinawa diet
  The Okinawa diet is a nutrient-rich, low-calorie dietfrom the indigenous people of the Ryūkyū Islands. In addition, a commercially promoted weight-loss diet has also been made based on this standard diet of the Islanders....
  
  
• Omnivore
  Omnivore
  Omnivores are species that eat both plants and animals as their primary food source...
  
  
• Organic food diet
  Organic food
  Organic foods are foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, do not contain genetically modified organisms, and are not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or chemical food additives.For the...
  
  
• Ornish Diet
  Dean Ornish
  Dean Michael Ornish, M.D., is president and founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, as well as Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco....
  
  
• Ovo-lacto vegetarian diet

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• Paleolithic diet
  Paleolithic diet
  The modern dietary regimen known as the Paleolithic diet , also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various hominid species habitually consumed during the...
  
  
• Perricone diet
  Nicholas Perricone
  Dr. Nicholas Perricone , MD, is a dermatologist who has written several books, primarily on the subjects of weight loss and maintaining the appearance of youth. Dr. Perricone is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, from which he received his MD....
  
  
• Pescetarian diet
  Pescetarianism
  Pescetarianism is the practice of a diet that includes seafood but not the flesh of other animals.In addition to fish and/or shellfish, a pescetarian diet typically includes all of vegetables, fruit, nuts, grains, beans, eggs and dairy...
  
  
• Plant-based diet
  Plant-based diet
  Plant-based diet may refer to:* Herbivore: an animal that is adapted to eat plants and not meat.* Veganism: refers to a plant-based diet, with absolutely no food from animal sources ; or completely eliminating the use of animal products for ethical reasons...
  
  
• Prison loaf
• Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise

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• Scarsdale Medical Diet
• Shangri-La Diet
• Slimming World diet
  Slimming World
  Slimming World a UK-based weight loss organisation. It holds groups around the UK, led by consultants, who are self employed. According to the company, over the past 40 years more than five million slimmers have attended its groups....
  
  
• Smart For Life
• Sonoma diet
  Sonoma diet
  The Sonoma Diet is a dietary system that was developed by Connie Guttersen, and is a derivation of the Mediterranean diet.The diet plan consists managing portion sizes and eating approved foods centered around 10 items known as the "power foods". According to the creator of the diet these foods...
  
  
• South Beach diet
  South Beach Diet
  The South Beach Diet is a diet plan designed by cardiologist Arthur Agatston and dietician Marie Almon as an alternative to low-fat approaches such as the Ornish Diet and the Pritikin Diet advocated by the American Heart Association in the 1980s. Although the original purpose of the diet was to...
  
  
• SparkPeople diet
  SparkPeople
  SparkPeople is a company which develops and maintains several healthy living websites.SparkPeople's goal is to show people that they can use health and fitness to improve other areas of their lives, both personal and professional.-SparkPeople.com:...
  
  
• Stillman diet
  Stillman diet
  The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet was created by Irwin Maxwell Stillman, M.D. in 1967. It's an early form of the high-protein and low-carbohydrate diets. It differs from low-carbohydrate diets such as the Atkins Plan in that it is also a low-fat diet.The diet includes lean beef, veal, chicken,...
  
  
• Subway diet
  Jared Fogle
  Jared S. Fogle , also known as The Subway Guy, is a spokesman employed by Subway Restaurants in its advertising campaigns...
  
  
• Sugar Busters!
• Swank diet

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• Weight Down diet
  Dieting
  Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight. In most cases dieting is used in combination with physical exercise to lose weight in those who are overweight or obese. Some athletes, however, follow a diet to gain weight...
  
  
• Weight Watchers
  Weight Watchers
  Weight Watchers is an international company that offers various dieting products and services to assist weight loss and maintenance. Founded in 1963 by Brooklyn homemaker Jean Nidetch, it operates in about 30 countries around the world, generally under names that are local translations of “Weight...
  
  
• Western pattern diet
  Western pattern diet
  The Western pattern diet, also called Western dietary pattern or the meat-sweet diet, is a dietary habit chosen by many people in developed countries, and increasingly in developing countries. It is characterized by high intakes of red meat, sugary desserts, high-fat foods, and refined grains...
  
  
• Word of Wisdom
  Word of Wisdom
  The "Word of Wisdom" is the common name of a section of the Doctrine and Covenants, a book considered by many churches within the Latter Day Saint movement to consist of revelations from God...