Thursday, April 10, 2008

Healthy Vegetarian Nutritional Diet

Our health needs proper nourishment and nutritional diet with vitamins, it can be both vegetarian and non vegetarian. A question arises that what is a vegetarian diet?

Some people get tensed about certain diet for different reasons; there can be many reasons like weight loss and beauty because there is not only one pattern for vegetarian diet eating.

A full amount vegetarian diet is a “vegan” that a diet that includes green vegetables, fresh fruits, seeds, nuts, grains which are dried beans and peas. In the dominant time non -vegetarians are also into food but also include fish, chicken, eggs and dairy foodstuffs into their diet but no red meat.

Healthy food types

Fruits and Vegetables: This group shows varieties of healthy foods that are the most intense and full of nutrient contents like apple, banana, papaya, and many more fruits that are helpful. Vegetables have less sugar contents compared to fruits. Healthy fruits should be consumed in your daily diet. Most fruits and vegetables are found to be fighters of cancer and heart problems.

Healthy Fats and Carbohydrates: These food groups are essential structural components of healthy livelihood cells and great sources of energy which is a needed diet by our body. This food groups include simple sugars, gums, cellulose and starches.

Dietary Fiber: This type of food group helps in balance and regularity in the system’s body. Fiber consumption helps in controlling your calorie eating which results to the promotion of weight loss. Blood sugars of diabetic people are also controlled with the help of dietary fibers; healthy fiber may also help in reducing your risk for having cardiovascular diseases and some certain cancers.

Meat, Fish and chicken: This group of food are high-quality sources of protein and critically full of fat acids .Proteins are essential to the growth and development of your body. It also helps in the preservation and restoring of our body tissues.

Nutritional requirement

Fiber sources: - Through fiber sources our body gets some effective energy, to protect our body from diseases this source of energy is in some foods that are as shown below:

  • soybeans and peas
  • psyllium seed husk
  • carrots and broccoli(vegetable)
  • onions, potatoes
  • fruits and their juices (plums, berries, and prune juice)

Fiber sources are now associated with reduced risk of getting sick with the following diseases:

  • gastrointestinal disorders
  • obesity
  • several types of cancer
  • high-blood cholesterol
  • type 2 diabetes
  • cardiovascular diseases

Vitamins - Vitamins are Vitamin B and Vitamin C, which needs to be replaced on a daily basis. Fat soluble vitamins are the types of vitamins that can be stored in our body for as long as the body needs them. There are two types of vitamins - water-soluble vitamins and fat soluble vitamins. Water-soluble vitamins dissolve faster with water which can’t be stored in our body for longer periods of time; they travel through our bloodstream and the excess which the body will have no more use with will be extracted out from it by means of urine or sweat.


Author has discussed some nutritional diet information and types of food group that give you valuable information about healthy diet. Read more in your own complete online Eating Disorder guide - http://www.peoples-health.com/all-about-vagetarian-diets.html and for more other health problems visit Online Health Guide at http://www.peoples-health.com.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Eating Disorder – Types and Treatment Tips

Eating disorder is getting prevalent in the cities of today. We may call it as psychiatric disorder. It is caused mostly by no regular exercise, no control over consumption of food and eating junk foods containing high calories and cholesterol. Because of these habits people also suffer some serious problems like blood pressure, diabetes other than eating disorder.

Most of the people assume that eating disorders occurs in peoples with excessive weight only but the fact is average weight people can also face these types of problem. Depression can also lead to eating diseases; in fact it is the main cause of binge eating disorder.

Symptoms of Eating Disorders:

Eating disorders symptoms are prevalent in many types -

  • Binge eating disorder
  • Compulsive overeating
  • Blumia
  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Diabulmia
  • Night eating syndrome
  • Orthorexia nervosa
  • Pica
  • Rumination
  • Starvation diet
  • Anorexia

The most common are:

Binge eating disorder: - Can’t stop to eat, eat without checking there profit and loss Because of this behavior people also suffer some serious problems like eating disorder.

  • Eats until physically uncomfortable
  • Periodically does not exercise to control over consumption of food
  • Often eats alone during periods of normal eating, owing to feelings of embarrassment about food
  • Eats an unusually large amount of food at one time -- more than a normal person would eat in the same amount of time.
  • Eats much more quickly during binge episodes than during normal eating episodes
  • Eats large amounts of food even when they are not really hungry
  • Usually eats alone during binge eating episodes in order to avoid discovery of the disorder
  • Feels disgusted, depressed, or guilty after binge eating

Compulsive overeating - Overeating or addiction of over eating is called compulsive overeating. People suffering from their abnormal eating, feels uncomfortable in society. Compulsive Overeater is at risk for a heart attack, high blood-pressure and cholesterol, kidney disease and/or failure, arthritis and bone deterioration, and stroke.

Bulimia :- Bulimia nervosa, known as bulimia, is an eating disorder and psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating followed by feelings of guilt, depression, and self-condemnation and intentional purging to compensate for the excessive eating, usually to prevent weight gain. Purging can take the form of vomiting, fasting, inappropriate use of laxatives, enemas, diuretics or other medication, or excessive physical exercise.

Night eating syndrome: - Night eating syndrome is an eating disorder this is an ongoing, persistent behavior, unlike the occasional late snack or skipped meal that most people have from time to time. In fact, people with this disorder are often unaware of their nocturnal meals, although some feel they won't be able to sleep without eating first.

Eating Disorder Prevention Tips

· Make your whole life better through food and eating

· Dieting is about losing some weight in a healthy way so how you feel on the outside will match how good you already feel inside.

· Convinced your self-esteem is hinged on what you weigh and how you look.

· Attempt to control your weight a bit better

· Control your life and emotions through food/lack of food -- and are a huge neon sign saying "look how out of control I really feel"

· Everything gets going in life -- stress, coping, pain, anger, acceptance, validation, confusion, fear -- cleverly hidden behind phrases like "I'm just on a diet"


Author has summed up some information about eating habits and associated eating disorders. To know more about all the types of eating disorders, their symptoms and treatment visit sleeping disorder articles at http://peoples-health.com/binge-eating-disorder.htm and online health guide at http://www.peoples-health.com for information on more diseases.