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To plan: Healthy-heart meals for a day and analyze them.
Introduction: A practice of regulating and supervising the food habits in order to maintain, decrease or increase body weight, or to prevent diseases is known as dieting. There are different types of dieting plans and patterns designed according to the intend of dieting. Those include detoxifying, nutritious, low-fat, low-calorie, and low-carbohydrate diets. Separate set of dietary plans and diet charts are followed for preventing and treating diseases.
To determine: Whether the meals in the plan meet the strategy listed in Table 18-5 and the way to improve the shortcomings, if any.
Introduction: A practice of regulating and supervising the food habits in order to maintain, decrease or increase body weight, or to prevent diseases is known as dieting. There are different types of dieting plans and patterns designed according to the intend of dieting. Those include detoxifying, nutritious, low-fat, low-calorie, and low-carbohydrate diets. Separate set of dietary plans and diet charts are followed for preventing and treating diseases.
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Understanding Nutrition (MindTap Course List)
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