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Vegetables

Vegetables are an important part to maintaining a balanced diet and whilst a lot of vegetables are high in carbs, non-starchy veg are very low in calories.

Keto friendly vegetables including asparagus, avocado, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, cucumber, kale, lettuce, tomatoes, courgette and spinach.

These foods are high in many nutrients including vitamin C and fibre which will help slimmers stay full for longer.

Cauliflower can also be used to mimic rice or mashed potato and courgette can be used to create noodles.

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Meat

Meat and poultry items are considered to be staple foods for those following the diet.

This is because they do not contain carbs and are high in fats.

Meat is also a great source of protein, an essential nutrient that slimmers must should into their daily diet.

Organic and grass-fed meat may be healthier but any type of meat is considered keto friendly. Those foods include bacon, beef, lamb and pork.

One large egg contains less than one gram of carbs and around six grams of protein, making them ideal for a ketogenic lifestyle.

They are also incredibly versatile, meaning you can cook them in several different ways so that meals stay interesting and tasty.

Eggs for breakfast have been shown to cause up to 65 percent greater weight loss over eight weeks, with some noticing results in just two weeks.

Berries

Berries like raspberries and blackberries are some of the best fruits for the keto diet.

They can satisfy a sweet tooth craving as well as being loaded with antioxidants to help reduce inflammation.

Fruit is also full of fibre, known to help slimmers stay fuller for longer and added to Greek yoghurt can create the perfect filling healthy breakfast option.

Blueberries can also help to regulate fat burning and storage and help to reduce abdominal fat.

However, blueberries should be consumed in small amounts because of their carbohydrate content.

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COKE IS GIVING A YEAR'S SUPPLY OF DIET COKE TO SOMEONE WHO HAS HANDLED 2020 LIKE A "TRUE BOSS."

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Coke is giving a years supply of Diet Coke to someone who has handled 2020 like a true boss.

(CNN) National bosss day was last Friday.

If you missed it; Coke may just have a way to get you out of the dog house.

The company is giving away a years supply of Diet Coke, complete with a mini-fridge.

You have until November 17th to nominate your boss at dietcoke.com/bossday.

The good news is you dont have to report directly to your nominee.

The only requirement is it has to be someone who has gone beyond the call of duty to take on all that 2020 has entailed like a true boss.

Theres also some bad news; you cant nominate yourself.

Hopefully someone else thinks youre as great as you do.

As for the big question, whats a years supply of diet coke?

Well, Coke defines it as 365 cans.

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Industrial farming is having a catastrophic impact on the planetand our health. It's tough to separate the two given how dependent we are on the environment for survival. While author and farming industry executive Philip Lymbery strikes an apocalyptic tone, his message is not overstated.

"Every day there is a new confirmation of how destructive, inefficient, wasteful, cruel and unhealthy the industrial agriculture machine is. We need a total rethink of our food and farming systems before it's too late."

Earth is not resource-infinite. We're destroying entire ecosystems to feed our destructive food habits. Nutrition isn't the only concern. One of the major culprits of deforestation is palm oil, which is widely used in skincare products as well. Everywhere we turn, we're decimating ecosystems and species for personal gain.

While a plant-based diet isn't the solution to every problem, it can certainly help. Whether you're concerned about your own health or that of the planet, transitioning to a plant-based diet isn't impossible. In fact, it can be quite delicious. Below are six strategies to help the process along.

Quarantine offered an entire world the opportunity to get into the kitchen and put on a chef's apron. Complaints about "not enough time" are the biggest barriers to preparing home-cooked meals. Of course, pandemic fatigue has resulted in a number of recent chefs ordering out more. That said, this is the perfect time to try your hand at new dishes. With infection rates increasing across the country, stocking up on seasonal vegetables is a great idea.

Simple seasonal ways to begin your plant-based exploration include roasted kabocha squash, Bombay potatoes, and no-chop pumpkin soup. If you're feeling a bit more adventurous, Masoor Dal Tadka will keep you warm into the winter months. A delicious sweet potato salad will never fail you. This round-up of 25 vegetarian recipes will keep you busy for a few months (or a month if you're ambitious).

Education is essential for beginning any endeavor. Weeding through propaganda and bunk science to find credible evidence of any diet is difficult, though many experts agree that for individual and societal health, a plant-based diet is key.

Even vegetarianism has its pitfalls. For example, one-fifth of all calories consumed by Americans come from nutritionally-worthless white flour. If you're eating processed bread every day, you're missing out on the benefits of a rich and varied diet.

Many of the "diseases of affluence," such as cardiovascular and obesity-related ailments, originate with a poor diet (and lack of exercise). Meat has been an essential component of the human diet throughout our evolution. Today, we eat too much of itand too much of it is produced in factory farms. Transitioning to a plant-based diet could help cut down on carbon emissions and the aforementioned diseases.

Plants are full of valuable phytochemicals and antioxidants that support a strong immune system. A (non-processed) plant-based diet reduces inflammation and offers plenty of fiber. It has been shown to reduce your risk of diabetes, stroke, and heart diseases. Those are all great reasons to transition.

Going cold turkey rarely works for addicts. The same is true of diets. If you're interested in a plant-based diet, try to eat veg every other day for a few weeks. Notice how your body reacts on days you eat this way compared to other days. Gradually phase out meat products. Attempt meat-free weekdays and see if your craving for meat persists on the weekend. Try using meat as a garnish instead of the main course.

More importantly, have a replacement plan. Dropping all meat products to consume frozen dinners isn't the best course of action. Filling your cart with bags of foods you've never eaten before will overwhelm you. Prepare meals as you taper off of meat; arm yourself with a broad knowledge of healthy plants and vegetables. At some point, you might forget what you've been missing.

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The good news is that you likely have a number of plant-based side and main dishes that you love. Transitioning into a new diet requires a certain level of enjoyment. Otherwise, you're going to loathe eating, and eating should bring some level of satisfaction.

Try a one-to-one ratio to begin. On one night, cook a meal you love. Then try something completely new the next night. Follow that up with old faithful. This way, you constantly have new dishes to look forward to yet don't get stuck in thinking you have to be creative every single day. You'll likely find some winners and decide not to repeat other dishes. Regardless, you'll have a broader menu to work from.

The produce section of your grocery store provides almost everything you need to survive. You can likely pronounce every ingredient in this section. There's a vast difference between food and foodstuffs. Plenty of plant-based companies offer too much of the latter. Potato chips are technically vegetarian, and some use simple ingredients, yet it's easy to fill your cart with foodstuffs. The health benefits of this are not only negligible but potentially dangerous.

Qi Sun, an assistant professor of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explains. "If you eat a vegan diet, but eat a lot of french fries, refined carbs like white bread, white rice, that's not healthy." He suggests "emphasizing fruits and vegetables. Not fruit juice but whole food. And nuts."

There's a lot of terrible adviceand worse, propagandaon the internet. While you likely don't want to eat eggs every day, they're not "toxic," as one popular documentary claims. Eggs are one of the best low-cost, high-value foods around.

Read websites like Everyday Health, which uses clear language, like "may improve" and "may decrease," with links to credible studies. This way you follow the going science without becoming fanatical about a particular diet or being disappointed if it turns out the research doesn't hold up. Good science evolves with evidence. And right now, the evidence points to more vegetables in our diets.

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Osteoporosis diet: 5 foods that will help you build and maintain strong bones  |  Photo Credit: iStock Images

New Delhi: A healthy, balanced diet will help you build and maintain strong bones. It will help you lose weight or maintain weight loss while also reducing your risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and several other conditions. If you have osteoporosis, a nutritious diet can go a long way in managing your bone health. A balanced diet rich in calcium and vitamin D along with regular exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits such as not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, can help you look good and feel your best.

Whether or not you have osteoporosis, focusing on foods high in vitamins, minerals, and other essential nutrients will keep your bones healthy. On World Osteoporosis Day, marked on October 20 every year, we list some of the superfoods you can incorporate into your osteoporosis diet that will not only strengthen your bones but also improve overall health.

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Shark Tank has been a platform for thousands upon thousands of products, some of which the series' diehard fans would say seem almost too good to be true. The major commercial success associated with the show (which Inc. reports can be worth double or triple a company's revenue in a single year) has pushed more inventors, brands, and businesses to seek endorsement from one of the shows' stars. And when a product is just too outlandish to appear on the show, some entrepreneurs will simply fake an endorsement which is the case for a whole suite of Ketogenic diet products, including some of which actually steal Lori Grenier's image to be used on social media.

As reported by fact checkers at Snopes.com, there have been many digital advertisements for Keto diet pills that purport that the product has appeared on Shark Tank. Some even claim to have been funded or personally endorsed by the business moguls featured on Shark Tank while pitching on the show. The pills are billed as a supplement to help boost weight loss for those working their way through the Keto diet, a targeted program that pushes one's metabolism to process fat (or, to reach ketosis) as the main source of energy, as opposed to carbohydrates like sugar.

But viewers may be surprised to learn that there have only been a few instances when a Keto-related product has crossed the Shark Tank stage and none have ever secured an investment from one of the show's main "Sharks."

A brand called Nui first appeared on Shark Tank in 2018 to seek investment in their Keto-friendly cookie product that skipped added sugar but doubled down on saturated fats. During the episode, guest investor and sports icon Alex Rodriguez ended up sinking a $300,000 investment into the cookie, according to CNBC. In another episode in 2018, a brand known as the Honest Keto Diet tried seeking investment for a supplement that supposedly helped Keto dieters maintain ketosis without strictly observing required sugar limitations that the diet is famous for. The product didn't earn an investment from any of the show's stars, but blogs like The Health Radar believe the appearance allowed fraudulent businesses to start pedaling fake ads.

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Fake advertisements for "Shark Tank Keto pills" have even caught the eye of the Better Business Bureau, as officials found that one product used images "taken from a separate Shark Tank episode that does not mention PureFit KETO. "Some advertisements have even gone as far to manipulate images of Greiner, the "Queen of QVC' television personality who has funded more than 35 new businesses and products on Shark Tank alone, per her website.

How widespread are these advertisements, you might wonder? They're big enough of a problem for Grenier to appeal to her social media followers to ask them to stop buying any products associated with the Keto diet claiming to have her endorsement. She also appeared on an episode of The Dr. Oz Show to address the scam once and for all, alongside a Federal Bureau of Investigation cybersecurity agent and Dr. Oz himself, who has been the source of a few fake ads as well.

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"They take our images and they Photoshop our product into their hands, and they make it like we are endorsing or are behind these products, but we are not," Grenier said in a video posted to her social accounts. "I have never done a Keto or diet product, ever."

Keto diet pills have been the subject of many shopping scams (Chrissy Teigen recently shut one down publicly on Twitter) over the years. If you should come across an advertisement floating a Keto product featured on Shark Tank, it probably hasn't ever appeared on the show or earned any endorsement. The Snopes team says these Keto advertisements often allow scammers to participate in something called "dropshipping," which allows them to earn money by getting shoppers to order often questionable products from suppliers directly, earning a commission-like fee in the process. If you're truly interested in hearing more about the Keto diet and how it may help you manage your weight, start by learning about the diet's rules and how it works and consider a meal plan to begin before discussing long term changes to your diet with your doctor.

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Salha R Aljohani, Doaa H Alsaggaf

Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Correspondence: Salha R AljohaniDepartment of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Alsulemaneya, PO Box 80209, Jeddah 21589, Saudi ArabiaTel +966 504684941Fax +966 12 692 1262Email saljohani@kau.edu.sa

Introduction: Adherence to dietary advice and proper oral hygiene practices during orthodontic treatment are critical to maintaining good oral health and achieving successful treatment results. Thus, understanding patients habits and practices before, during, and after orthodontic treatment is needed to ensure better oral health-related behavior among these patients.Purpose: To investigate sugar-related dietary habits, visits to dental hygienists and dentists, and oral hygiene practices among patients during orthodontic treatment and after treatment compared to patients before treatment.Methods: A cross-sectional self-administered survey collected data from 375 patients (aged 10 years and older) from the Orthodontic Department at King Abdulaziz University Dental Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Patients were grouped according to their history of receiving orthodontic treatment into: patients before orthodontic treatment, patients during treatment, and patients after treatment. The survey assessed sugar-related dietary habits, frequency of visits to hygienists and dentists, and oral hygiene practices.Results: Patients during orthodontic treatment and those after treatment were less likely to eat sticky food compared to patients before treatment (OR=0.4, 95% CI=0.2 0.9 and OR=0.5, 95% CI=0.3 0.9, respectively). No significant differences were found in the odds of dental visits among the groups. Compared to patients before orthodontic treatment, patients during treatment and patients after treatment had higher odds of tooth brushing twice or more per day (OR=4.8, 95% CI=1.7 14.3, and OR=4.0, 95% CI=1.2 13.6, respectively) and were more likely to brush for an adequate time (OR=2.6, 95% CI=1.6 4.4 and OR=1.9, 95% CI=1.0 3.5, respectively). Moreover, the likelihood of flossing once daily was higher in patients during treatment and in patients after treatment relative to those before treatment. However, only patients during orthodontic treatment used interdental brushes more than patients before treatment.Conclusion: Patients oral health-related behavior seems to improve during and after orthodontic treatment. The findings of this study suggest that orthodontists can play a role in improving oral hygiene practices among their patients. More reinforcement of dietary instructions and periodic dental and hygiene visits is needed during orthodontic follow-up appointments.

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Three out of four rural Indians cannot afford a nutritious diet, according to a paper recently published in journal Food Policy. Even if they spent their entire income on food, almost two out of three of them would not have the money to pay for the cheapest possible diet that meets the requirements set by the governments premier nutrition body, it says.

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Unlike the Economic Surveys Thalinomics, which provided a rosier picture of meal costs, this study uses the wages of unskilled workers who make up a larger proportion of the population than industrial workers, and includes items such as dairy, fruit and dark green leafy vegetables that are essential as per Indias official dietary guidelines.

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The paper, titled Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India, is authored by International Food Policy Research Institute economist Kalyani Raghunathan and others, and uses the latest available food price and wage information from the National Sample Surveys 2011 dataset.

The findings are significant in the light of the fact that India performs abysmally on many nutrition indicators even while the country claims to have achieved food security. On Friday, the Global Hunger Index showed that India has the worlds highest prevalence of child wasting, reflecting acute undernutrition. On indicators that simply measure calorie intake, India performs relatively better, but they do not account for the nutrition value of those calories.

The National Institute for Nutritions guidelines for a nutritionally adequate diet call for adult women to eat 330 gm of cereals and 75 gm of pulses a day, along with 300 gm of dairy, 100 gm of fruit, and 300 gm of vegetables, which should include at least 100 gm of dark green leafy vegetables. Selecting the cheapest options from actual Indian diets -- wheat, rice, bajra, milk, curd, onions, radish, spinach, bananas -- the study calculated that a days meals would cost 45 (or 51 for an adult man).

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Even if they spent all their income on food, 63.3% of the rural population or more than 52 crore Indians would not be able to afford that nutritious meal. If they set aside just a third of their income for non-food expenses, 76% of rural Indians would not be able to afford the recommended diet. This does not even account for the meals of non-earning members of a household, such as children or older adults.

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These numbers are somewhat speculative, but they do reveal the scale of the dietary affordability problem in rural India: nutritious diets are too expensive, and incomes far too low, says the paper.

Although their data ended in 2011, since when both food prices and wages have risen, the studys authors recommended that the government develop a similar tool to monitor dietary costs and affordability of nutritious meals. Currently, food costs are measured through consumer price indices (CPIs) which weight foods by expenditure shares. In poor countries such as India, CPIs are heavily weighted towards nutrient-sparse starchy staples, meaning that trends in the food CPI can be misleading from a nutritional standpoint, said the paper.

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In the US, the company is also chopping Odwalla, Zico coconut water, Coca-Cola Life and Diet Coke Feisty Cherry, as well as regional offerings like Northern Neck Ginger Ale and Delaware Punch. In Coca-Colas international portfolio, Vegitabeta (Japan) and Kuat (Brazil) will also be discontinued.

Coca-Cola says it is retiring underperforming products in order to prioritize those with the greatest potential for growth and scale.

TaB was launched in 1963 as Coca-Colas first-ever diet soft drink and precursor of some of Coca-Colas biggest diet drinks today (if not for TaB, we wouldnt have Diet Coke or Coke Zero Sugar, says Coca-Cola).

Initially marketed to women, the saccharine-sweetened, zero-calorie soda became popular in the 1980s and has maintained a small following over the last few decades, primarily among fans who grew up with the brand. TaB is also sold in South Africa.

Despite its legacy, TaB has done its job and will be retired in light of a zero-calorie sparkling beverage category that has changed significantly in recent years. Coca-Colas focus is now on Diet Coke and Coke Zero Sugar (Zero Sugar, for example, enjoyed double-digit growth both in the US and globally last year).

Although Coca-Colas pledge to kill the zombies in its portfolio pre-dates the pandemic, COVID-19 has sped up the need to cut off underperforming products and focus efforts on those with the best chance of success.

Brands have been assessed on the basis of whether they have a track record of sequential, incremental growth.

Cath Coetzer, global head of innovation and marketing operations, The Coca-Cola Company, says the company has not set out to cut a specific number of products: rather, its about continuing to follow the consumer and being very intentional in deciding which of our brands are most deserving of our investments and resources - and also taking the tough but important steps to identify those products that are losing relevance and therefore should exit the portfolio.

Cuts are also being made across the portfolio to reduce the number of SKUs in terms of packaging formats, although Coca-Cola has not specified which lines are affected.

Coca-Cola champions this streamlining as a way to free up resources for growing brands such asTopo-Chico Hard Seltzer (launching in the first half of 2021), Coca-Cola Energy,AHA flavored sparkling waterMinute Maid and Simply.

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Hello. I'm Dr David Johnson, professor of medicine and chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia.

Do we need to keep doing something simply because that's the way we've done it forever? This question has particular relevance when it comes to recommending a clear-liquid diet before colonoscopy.

We know that colonoscopy is very much predicated on the willingness of the patient to undergo adequate bowel preparation beforehand. If the process of preparation is uncomfortable, that might affect the quality of the colonoscopy. We also know that approximately 50% of patients have reported being unwilling to repeat colonoscopy because of an adverse perception of the clear-liquid diet preparation. Clearly, we can do better.

As we talk about getting more people into colonoscopy screening, particularly in light of COVID-19 and concerns about patients wanting to stay home, doing a procedure with reduced preparation requirements becomes more and more attractive.

A clear-liquid diet is something that we've been traditionally taught to do the day before the colonoscopy. I was part of an earlier US Multi-Society Task Force looking at the issue of colon preparations, which offered recommendations that the low-residue diet should be offered as a potential option for patients. It hasn't received as much traction as I think it should.

Therefore, kudos to the authors of a recent study from China, who looked at low-residue diet vs clear-liquid diet for bowel preparation a day before colonoscopy. They did an extremely good job in providing a statistical analysis drawn from over 4300 patients participating in 20 randomized controlled trials (17 published, three abstracts), which assessed outcomes related to bowel preparation.

They used a meta-analysis conducted according to the best standards and including high-quality studies, as evaluated by the Jadad score system. Then, they performed something very interesting called a trial sequential analysis, which considers the futility of the study over a period of time. Basically, this separate analysis is done to help eliminate type 1 errors (early false-positives) in some of these studies.

The authors found that there was no difference as it relates to the adequacy of the bowel preparation for either a clear-liquid diet or a low-residue diet. The groups had similar rates of polyp and high-risk adenoma detection, as well as cecal intubation. However, there were significantly fewer adverse events in the low-residue diet as it relates to things like nausea, vomiting, hunger, and headache. And significantly more patients in the low-residue diet found it easier to complete the diet (odds ratio, 1.86) and also reported a greater willingness to repeat it (odds ratio, 2.23).

When we look at these data a little more closely with the trial sequential analysis, these other endpoints didn't meet the absolute numbers required to show significance. What we can say is that the low-residue diet equaled the clear-liquid diet as far as the adequacy of the preparation, which is very important to patients. However, these outcomes still require further evaluation before we can offer real scientific support for a low-residue diet over a clear-liquid diet.

We need to look at our colonoscopy preparations, because we can do better by beginning to liberalize them. We cannot yet say this is for every patient, given that the current meta-analysis excluded patients with diabetes, renal dysfunction, and certain other criteria (ie, there were no children involved in this study). So, this may not be a regimen that you'd offer for everybody, but you should start looking to offer it to many of your patients.

Jerry Waye, a good friend and one of the godfathers of colonoscopy recognized for his expertise over decades, told me once that when he offered colonoscopy preparations, he'd tell patients they could have ice cream for dinner the night before. He was a hero in so many patients' eyes. He told me the patients loved it. They never complained about the prep.

In conclusion, consider a low-residue diet and potentially liberalizing the foods, certainly for breakfast and lunch, that can be eaten the day before the colonoscopy. Look closely at this, track it, and see if we can do more to get patients saying, "You know, the prep wasn't bad."

We can also do better by getting these recommendations out to the general population and getting more people into colon cancer screening using the best tool available: colonoscopy. So liberalize, but don't compromise. I think we can do a better job.

I'm Dr David Johnson. Thanks again for listening.

David A. Johnson, MD, a regular contributor to Medscape, is professor of medicine and chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, and a past president of the American College of Gastroenterology. His primary focus is the clinical practice of gastroenterology. He has published extensively in the internal medicine/gastroenterology literature, with principal research interests in esophageal and colon disease, and more recently in sleep and microbiome effects on gastrointestinal health and disease.

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