July 31, 2013
English Assignment
Week 3
Dieting
As you pass by the parks you always see several individuals exercising. While gazing at the sweating runners, walkers, and joggers you start to wonder is exercise enough to sustain a healthy life style? The answer is no, because along with exercise the proper diet is very important. Proper dieting is very essential to maintain a healthy life style. For example if you have an unhealthy diet and do not exercise regularly, you will become obese or overweight. If you become either of these things it becomes harder to be healthy. When you diet to start to lose weight and maintain good nutrition. USDA said that healthier diets could prevent at least $71 billion per year in medical costs. First let me give you the definition of dieting. Dieting is restricting the amount of unhealthy foods in order to lose weight. There are many different types of dieting some healthy and unhealthy. For example a healthy diet would be “The Mediterranean Diet” consists of eating high amounts of fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, nuts and seeds. Meats such as fish or poultry are to be eaten in moderation. Another healthy diet is “The Vegan Diet” this diet requires that you abstain from the intake of meats or animal byproducts. The reason why this a good diet is because it is plant based meaning you intake a lot of vegetables and it lowers your cholesterol and reduces your intake of saturated fat and calories. An example of a unhealthy diet is “The Pasta Chocolate Diet” this diet requires that you drink nothing but water and eat pasta for lunch and dinner and you are also allowed one ounce of chocolate every night before bed. This diet is very unhealthy because pasta alone has 43.2g of sugar to contain that much sugar twice daily is only going to increase the amount of sugar in your body and that is unhealthy. The unhealthiest way of