The Alkaline Diet Book Review
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Diet Review and Overview: Acid-Alkaline Diet

This diet (popular among celebrities) claims to help your body maintain your blood ph level to ward off disease. Research strongly suggests that food has little impact on blood ph as your body is constantly adjusting levels on its own without our help. However, whether or not this diet does what it claims (helps you lose weight, avoid cancer and arthritis among other claims) the food choices allowed on this diet are quite healthy.

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Diet Books and Lifestyle Plan Reviews
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Diet Review and Overview: Anti-Inflammatory Diet

Dr. Andrew Weil created this diet with the idea that by following a special diet you can help counteract chronic inflammation that is the root cause of many serious diseases. He claims his diet may have a positive impact on preventing or improving symptoms of: Heart disease, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, Age-related disorders, including many cancers, and autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

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Diet Books and Lifestyle Plan Reviews
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Diet Review and Overview: HMR Diet

This diet plan focuses on teaching you how to make healthy food decisions about the way you eat and how to incorporate more fruits and vegetables while losing weight. The plan involves reducing calories by using shakes (and other HMR products) as a meal replacement. The plan is most effective when you participate in the supervised program.

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Diet Books and Lifestyle Plan Reviews
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Diet Review and Overview: Abs Diet

This diet can seem a little overwhelming at first, but it will teach you a lot about food and get you thinking about what you are eating. It is important to note that this diet is specifically designed to try and attack belly fat and give you a nice 6-pack abdomen so you must do the exercise part of the plan as well.

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Engine 2 Diet Book Review
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Diet Review and Overview: Engine 2 Diet

The Engine 2 Diet was created by firefighter Rip Esselstyn when he noticed that his firefighter co-workers had high cholesterol. The diet is a 28 day meal plan that lets you enjoy a variety of foods such as vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, and grains. Although this is a plant based diet, however, it doesn’t completely forbid meat.

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Dukan Diet Book Review
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Diet Review and Overview: Dukan Diet

As with most low-carb diets, exercise is optional. Initial weight loss can be significant, but largely consists of water weight loss and from depleting your body’s store of glycogen. If you love meat, and can live without certain fruits, grains, and pasta for a while, this is an alternative to Atkins that you can try.

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5-2-Diet Book Review and Overview
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Diet Review and Overview: 5:2 Diet

The 5:2 diet is a plan the involves intermittent fasting (IF). If you have any issues with blood sugar, or a lifestyle or occupation that requires daily energy from food, this is probably not the best plan for you. If you are pregnant or nursing, this is not a good plan to consider.*

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Flexitarian Diet Book Review
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Diet Review and Overview: The Flexitarian Diet

Flexitarian is a combination of two words: Flexible and vegetarian. This diet allows you to be a vegetarian most of the time, but lets you have some animal protein if the urge strikes. Hardcore vegans and vegetarians may take offense to this term, arguing that you are either you are a vegetarian or not, which, in general sounds logical, but does an occasional burger mean you can no longer claim a vegetarian lifestyle?

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Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution Book Review
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Diet Review and Overview: Atkins Diet

The Atkins plan lets you eat almost unlimited animal protein including red meats, eggs, and fish. Atkins forbids pasta, breads, fruit, some vegetables, or dairy other than butter, cheeses, and cream.

There is also a vegetarian version of this diet called Eco-Atkins.

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Sex is one of the more enjoyable exercises you can do.
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Exercise (Yes, Sex Counts) Can Improve Your Mood

Regular physical activity can help keep your thinking, learning, and judgment skills sharp as you age. It can also reduce your risk of depression and may help you sleep better. Research has shown that doing aerobic or a mix of aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities 3 to 5 times a week for 30 to 60 minutes can give you these mental health benefits. Some scientific evidence has also shown that even lower levels of physical activity can be beneficial. That’s great, but does sex count as exercise? (Hint: yes!)

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Lose Weight with a plan

Are you waiting on the Universe to help you kick pre-diabetes in the ass? You could have a long wait.

Not everyone who has pre-diabetes needs to lose weight so weight-loss isn’t the only focus of pre-diabetes treatment. Pre-diabetes is a medical condition that needs to be treated by making changes in your lifestyle, and, for some, may even require medication to help improve insulin response or lower to lower blood sugar. So what are these ‘lifestyle’ changes? That depends on the individual and may include a variety of things you will need to address that you may not even be aware of.

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