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January 14, 2022 3 min read
How To Choose The Best Diet For You
Plant-based, paleo, fasting and so many more… there are an array of diet types you could follow. But which one is best for your fitness goals?
Changing your diet in 2022?
Dieting no longer means a quick fix way to lose weight. These days, you might adopt a different diet for your health, your wallet, or to align with your personal principles. If you’re thinking about changing up the way you eat in 2022, read through these handy pros and cons.
5 reasons you might change your diet
1 To change your body composition and maintain the results
2 In response to findings about current or possible health concerns
3 To optimise your digestion, energy levels, or training performance
4 To align with your values around food production, welfare, or environment
5 As part of household budgeting efforts
“IF” has been around for a long time, but gained popularity when a certain TV Doctor published a book using the basic principles. Intermittent Fasting isn’t rocket science, it simply means reducing your eating window and introducing a longer period of time when you don’t eat. There are various ways to structure the eating and non-eating periods, but most people start with 16:8. This pretty much means eating dinner as normal, then pushing breakfast back a bit.
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Eating a plant-based diet is different to being vegan. Plant-based eaters make a concerted effort to base most of their food intake around vegetables, fruits, grains, lentils, beans and other plant foods, but they might still eat dairy, eggs, and occasional fish or meat.
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In contrast to plant-based eating, vegan eating is a stricter approach which eliminates any foods that come from animals. This obviously means no meat or fish but also means no dairy, eggs, gelatine, and honey.
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The Paleo diet is often referred to as the hunter-gatherer diet as it focuses on natural foods that could be hunted, fished, or gathered from the land. It is based around the premise that our digestive systems have not evolved to eat more modern foods like grains and processed manmade foods.
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You should never jump into a change in eating plan without asking yourself some serious questions about nutrition, cost, lifestyle and logistics.
1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6836017/
2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5718973/