Recommended as the initial strategy
Eating breakfast and avoiding late-night eating should be considered important dietary strategies not only for weight loss, but also for metabolic health and are based on the physiologic clock. Time-restricted eating or intermittent fasting can be considered other options for weight loss and its maintenance. Maintenance of a low-calorie intake should be continued throughout an individual’s lifespan. Thus, the best diet for weight management is one that can be maintained in the long term. Healthcare providers should consult with patients before choosing the optimal diet strategy because successful weight loss and its maintenance depend on the patient’s choices, preferences, and long-term adherence to the diet plan.
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Ju Young Kim is the Editorial Board member of the Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome. However, she is not involved in the peer reviewer selection, evaluation, or decision process of this article. Otherwise, no other potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.
Researching the white paper:.
The process of researching and composing a white paper shares some similarities with the kind of research and writing one does for a high school or college research paper. What’s important for writers of white papers to grasp, however, is how much this genre differs from a research paper. First, the author of a white paper already recognizes that there is a problem to be solved, a decision to be made, and the job of the author is to provide readers with substantive information to help them make some kind of decision--which may include a decision to do more research because major gaps remain.
Thus, a white paper author would not “brainstorm” a topic. Instead, the white paper author would get busy figuring out how the problem is defined by those who are experiencing it as a problem. Typically that research begins in popular culture--social media, surveys, interviews, newspapers. Once the author has a handle on how the problem is being defined and experienced, its history and its impact, what people in the trenches believe might be the best or worst ways of addressing it, the author then will turn to academic scholarship as well as “grey” literature (more about that later). Unlike a school research paper, the author does not set out to argue for or against a particular position, and then devote the majority of effort to finding sources to support the selected position. Instead, the author sets out in good faith to do as much fact-finding as possible, and thus research is likely to present multiple, conflicting, and overlapping perspectives. When people research out of a genuine desire to understand and solve a problem, they listen to every source that may offer helpful information. They will thus have to do much more analysis, synthesis, and sorting of that information, which will often not fall neatly into a “pro” or “con” camp: Solution A may, for example, solve one part of the problem but exacerbate another part of the problem. Solution C may sound like what everyone wants, but what if it’s built on a set of data that have been criticized by another reliable source? And so it goes.
For example, if you are trying to write a white paper on the opioid crisis, you may focus on the value of providing free, sterilized needles--which do indeed reduce disease, and also provide an opportunity for the health care provider distributing them to offer addiction treatment to the user. However, the free needles are sometimes discarded on the ground, posing a danger to others; or they may be shared; or they may encourage more drug usage. All of those things can be true at once; a reader will want to know about all of these considerations in order to make an informed decision. That is the challenging job of the white paper author. The research you do for your white paper will require that you identify a specific problem, seek popular culture sources to help define the problem, its history, its significance and impact for people affected by it. You will then delve into academic and grey literature to learn about the way scholars and others with professional expertise answer these same questions. In this way, you will create creating a layered, complex portrait that provides readers with a substantive exploration useful for deliberating and decision-making. You will also likely need to find or create images, including tables, figures, illustrations or photographs, and you will document all of your sources.
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2. Components of a Healthy Diet and Their Benefits. A healthy diet is one in which macronutrients are consumed in appropriate proportions to support energetic and physiologic needs without excess intake while also providing sufficient micronutrients and hydration to meet the physiologic needs of the body [].Macronutrients (i.e., carbohydrates, proteins, and fats) provide the energy necessary ...
Introduction. A healthy diet is associated with physical 1 and mental health. 2,3 Yet only 1% of Australians consume enough fruits and vegetables per day to meet national dietary guidelines. 4 Processed foods high in salt, saturated fat and sugars are consumed in excess, with junk food accounting for over a third of the daily energy intake in both adolescents and adults. 5 Poor diet quality ...
The definition of what constitutes a healthy diet is continually shifting to reflect the evolving understanding of the roles that different foods, essential nutrients, and other food components play in health and disease. A large and growing body of evidence supports that intake of certain types of …
However, research has shown that diets and restrained eating are often counterproductive and may even enhance the risk of long-term weight gain and eating disorders 2,3.
A meta-analysis of 89 studies on weight-related diseases revealed that diabetes was at the top of the risk list. Compared with people in the normal weight range (BMI < 25), men with BMIs >30 had a 7-fold higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, and women with BMIs >30 had a 12-fold higher risk. (Guh et al., 2009).
4. Diet and Culture for Healthy and Long Life. What elevates food to become diet and a meal is the manner and the context in which that food is consumed [].Numerous traditional and socio-cultural facets of dietary habits can be even more significant than their molecular, biochemical, and physiological concerns regarding their nutritional ingredients and composition.
The EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems 32 has quantified what it believes these characteristics mean for a transformation to healthy diets by 2050; dietary practice would require a greater than 50% reduction in global consumption of red meat and highly processed foods, and a greater than 100% increase in plant ...
To better understand the current concept of a "healthy diet," this review describes the features and supporting clinical and epidemiologic data for diets that have been shown to prevent ...
A wide range of terms for healthy eating (e.g. nutrition, food preferences, feeding behaviour, diets and health food) were combined with health promotion terms or general or specific terms for determinants of health or ill-health (e.g. health promotion, behaviour modification, at-risk-populations, sociocultural factors and poverty) and with ...
The EAT-Lancet Commission1 aims to define healthy global diets that avoid environmental degradation. It adopts the planetary boundaries concept to define "a safe operating space for humanity"2,3 or more prosaically "global biophysical limits that humanity should operate within to ensure a stable and resilient Earth system".1 However, the scientific analysis is obfuscated when two ...
Some heart-healthy dietary patterns emphasized in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans include the Mediterranean style, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) style, Healthy US-Style, and healthy vegetarian diets. 5 Research on dietary patterns that used data from 3 large cohorts of US adults, the Dietary Patterns Methods Project, found a 14% to 28% lower CVD mortality among adults ...
Objective: To discuss healthy diet from a psychological perspective by considering definitions of healthy diet in terms of consumer understanding; the health effects of specific dietary elements ...
A healthy diet during the primary age of children reduces the risk of immediate nutrition-related health problems of primary concern to school children, namely, obesity, ... However, taking the growth in research studies and papers in the field into account, it is difficult for both the research community and for policy makers to stay up to ...
Abstract. The general public's view of modern diet and human health has undergone drastic changes in recent years. There is general harmony that many chronic health problems, first noted in ...
The definition of what constitutes a healthy diet is continually shifting to reflect the evolving understanding of the roles that different foods, essential nutrients, and other food components play in health and disease. A large and growing body of evidence supports that intake of certain types of nutrients, specific food groups, or overarching dietary patterns positively influences health ...
Diet Quality: The Key to Healthy Eating. The role of good nutrition in health and well-being has been established since early times, as far back as 1747, when the fact that scurvy could be prevented by eating citrus fruits was discovered. Historically, researchers have focused on the effects of individual nutrients or foods in isolation, as ...
Introduction. A transition toward healthy and environmentally sustainable food is among major global challenges. Replacing animal sources, namely red meat and milk, with plant-based sources has the potential to impact on cutting greenhouse gas emissions (Springmann et al. Citation 2018).That is a reason for the growing popularity of diets eliminating or reducing meat, milk, dairy, and eggs ...
wheat, brown rice) every day. The recommended daily intake for an adult includes: 2 cups of fruit (4 servings), 2.5 cups of vegetables (5 servings), 180 g of grains. and 160 g of meat and beans. Red meat can be eaten 1−2 times per week, and. poultry 2−3 times per week.Eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetabl.
Purpose of Review Poor diets are a leading risk factor for chronic disease globally. Research suggests healthy foods are often harder to access, more expensive, and of a lower quality in rural/remote or low-income/high minority areas. Food pricing studies are frequently undertaken to explore food affordability. We aimed to capture and summarise food environment costing methodologies used in ...
Background. Estruch and his colleagues have produced a large randomized controlled trial looking at the effects of diet on health with hard morbidity and mortality endpoints [13]. Their study was recently retracted and republished after they discovered that 1588 of the 7400 participants really weren't randomized.
Intermittent fasting has drawn significant interest in the clinical research community due to its potential to address metabolic complications such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. ... College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa. PMID: 39203828 DOI: 10. 3390 ... Prediabetic State* / diet therapy
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A healthy diet is associated with physical 1 and mental health. 2,3 Yet only 1% of Australians consume enough fruits and vegetables per day to meet national dietary guidelines. 4 Processed foods high in salt, saturated fat and sugars are consumed in excess, with junk food accounting for over a third of the daily energy intake in both adolescents and adults. 5 Poor diet quality constitutes a ...
In September, we're raising awareness about healthy aging, sickle cell disease, substance use recovery, and HIV/AIDS. Below, you'll find resources to help you spread the word about these NHOs with your audiences. Healthy Aging Month Each September, we celebrate Healthy Aging Month to promote ways people can stay healthy as they age.
Ketogenic diet. Consumption of carbohydrates as < 10% of daily calories or < 50 mg/day 41. May decrease appetite, but long-term safety is unknown. High-protein diet. Increase protein intake to 30% of total daily calories or 1-1.2 g/kg of ideal body weight 43. Useful in maintaining weight loss and increasing satiety 47.
Unlike a school research paper, the author does not set out to argue for or against a particular position, and then devote the majority of effort to finding sources to support the selected position. Instead, the author sets out in good faith to do as much fact-finding as possible, and thus research is likely to present multiple, conflicting ...