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Importance of Planning your Diet

Why is a good diet plan important? Diet plan can be defined as a plan of your daily meals based upon your recommended dietary allowance (RDA). This will depend on your age, gender, height, weight, health goals, medical conditions, physical activity and metabolism. A good diet can help you ward off various health issues. Planning your diet wisely has the following benefits: 1. Makes meal preparation easy and organized: When you have a pre-planned diet, your meal preparation becomes easier and your meals become more organized. 2.  Helps you achieve your ideal body weight: Based on your height, you can achieve your ideal body weight. The time to achieve this goal varies from person to person and primarily depends on their actual body weight. 3. Helps you achieve your health goals: Planning your diets makes you more conscious about what you're putting inside your body and how it's going to affect your health. This impacts your health positively and helps you ac

Paleo Diet

Paleo diet is a dietary plan based on foods of Paleolithic age! A paleo diet typically includes lean meats, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds — foods that in the past could be obtained by hunting and gathering. ✔️Fruits ✔️Vegetables ✔️Nuts and oilseeds ✔️ lean meat ✔️fish especially rich in omega 3 fatty acids ❎Grains, such as wheat, oats and barley ❎Legumes, such as beans, lentils, peanuts and peas ❎Dairy products ❎Refined sugar ❎Salt ❎Processed foods Paleo diet helps: ✔️weight loss ✔️Improved glucose tolerance ✔️Controls blood pressure ✔️Lowers serum triglycerides levels ✔️Helps in appetite management The possible side effects of the paleo diet are: ❎Hypoglycemia if on glucose-lowering medicines ❎Food cravings ❎Lack of energy initially ❎Mood changes ❎Bad breath ❎Change in bowel habits