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Hi friends! Let’s take a moment to discuss the many different diets that one can adopt, what the differences are, and which of them are most conducive to optimal health!

When people begin to stray from the Standard American Diet (SAD Diet), the most common eating styles include: “flexatarian”, “pescatarian”, vegetarian, vegan, and raw food vegan. Let’s define each:

“Flexatarian”- One who eats a diet of mainly fruits and vegetables, but occasionally eats meat and dairy. This diet is less restrictive because there isn’t anything you CAN’T eat.

“Pescatarian”- This is someone who, in Read the rest of this entry »

The Dukan Diet plan is super-popular in France and is now gaining momentum in other countries as well. In France alone, it is estimated that over 1.5 million people have used this diet and there are many positive testimonials about it.

In this article I want to go over the Dukan Diet Menu options to help you see what you can eat while on this weight loss plan. There is no one strict menu that this program uses but it’s still important for you to know exactly what you can expect.

The Dukan Diet has 4 distinct phases, each with its own guidlines and purpose. Some of the phases deal with losing weight and others with maintaining it after you’re already shed your excess weight. This makes the food choices on each phase somewhat different than those on the other phases.

Dukan Diet Menu Phase by Phase

The first phase on this diet plan is called the Attack Phase. This is a purely protein consumption phase. You have all protein for 3–10 days. The book explains how to determine whether you need to follow this phase for just 3 days or the full 10. It depends on how much you need to lose.

As this is an all protein phase, your food chocies basically amount to: beef, chicken, other poultry, low fat or no fat dairy products, seafood, and fish. As you can imagine, this is not going to be an easy phase to go through due to the low range of food choices.

The cruise phase is Read the rest of this entry »