Fianl Project Com150
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The Pros and Cons of Popular Diet Plans
By: Jeremy Moore
Axia College
Course # Com 150
Jeff Martin, Instructor
December 2, 2007
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For this essay I decided to write about the Pros and Cons of several popular diet plans.
While some eating plans are unhealthy over the long term, a sound eating and exercising
plan can help a person in their struggle with obesity.
The first diet and exercise plan and main point that I would like to talk about is the
Body-for-Life Eating and exercise plan. The main principles of the Body-for-Life eating
and exercise Plan is that it is not a diet, but a lifestyle change. The program focus’s on
portion control and not on weighing or measuring your food or by counting calories
which makes it easy to follow by saving time not having to weigh or measure your food
and by not having to count calories. By portion control I mean that you take a serving of
protein for example and measure it to be the size of your palm, you do the same thing for
your carbohydrates and for your vegetables. Another feature of this program is eating
small meals with portion control every two to three hours. This helps to keep your
metabolism running high all day long and also helps to prevent hunger pains and it also
helps to keep your cravings under control. One thing that this program focus’s on is a
“cheat day” once a week. On this cheat day you are encouraged to eat whatever you want
to all day long, having a cheat day helps to keep food cravings under control and also
helps a person to keep to the eating plan as you only have to eat healthy 6 days out of the
week, another reason for the cheat day is psychological, it goes along with the idea that if
you eat how you used to eat to get into the shape that...
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