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Diet Food



Diet food (or dietetic food) refers to any food or drink whose recipe has been altered in some way to make it part of a body modification diet. Although the usual intention is weight loss, sometimes the intention is to aid in gaining weight or muscle as in bodybuilding supplements.



 Terminology

In addition to Diet other words or phrases are used to identify and describe these foods including Light or Lite, Low Calorie, Low Fat, No Fat, Fat Free, No Sugar, Sugar free, and Zero Calorie. In some areas use of these terms may be regulated by law. For example in the U.S. a product labelled low fat must not contain more than 3 grams of fat per serving; and to be labelled fat free it must contain less than 0.5 grams of fat per serving.

 

Process

The process of making a diet version of a food usually requires finding an acceptable low calorie substitute for some high calorie ingredient. This can be as simple as replacing some or all of the food's sugar with a sugar substitute as is common with diet soft drinks such as coke

 

 Controversy

Controversy surrounding diet foods is based around the fact that the products used to replace sugar are in fact more harmful than sugar itself.  Also with low fat foods, the fat is often replaced with sugar, and the reduction in calorific value is small, if there is any.

 




Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_food


Diet Foods Articles

rofessor aims to dispel diet myths with calorie-controlled junk food die - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:29:01 -0700
The food and beverage industry has consistently contested the idea that specific foods or drinks cause obesity, with confectioners and sugary drink manufacturers in particular repeatedly saying that their products do not cause weight gain if consumed in moderation as part of a balanced diet.

DA urged to pull diet drug from shelve - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:03:46 -0700
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is being urged to take a diet drug off the market because it allegedly raises the risk of heart attack, officials said. Food and Drug Administration - United States - Heart disease - Health - Myocardial infarction

akeda And Orexigen Make Deal For Diet Pil - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:25:44 -0700
The companies would work together on selling Contrave, an experimental diet pill now under review by the Food and Drug Administration.

ood cost stabilize - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:33:12 -0700
The US Department of Agriculture has forecast that food prices will rise only 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent this year, less than the 1.8 percent increases in 2008 and 2009 -- and the lowest rate of food inflation since 1992. Still, commodities experts predict that a variety...

rescription diet drug raises risk of heart attack, strok - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:35:46 -0700
Sibutramine, which alters brain chemicals to suppress appetite, carries risks for users with a history of cardiovascular disease. One doctor says it should be pulled off shelves. The prescription diet drug sibutramine, sold under the brand name Meridia, should be taken off the market because it raises the risk of heart attacks and strokes in some patients, the editor of the New England Journal ...

iet drug Meridia study renews calls for U.S. ba - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:50:54 -0700
Final data from a new study showed that the diet drug Meridia increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes in patients who already have heart disease, but offered only moderate weight loss. Weight loss - Heart disease - Health - Anti-obesity medication - United States

iet drug Meridia should be withdrawn from market, journal editor say - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:02:36 -0700
LOS ANGELES — The prescription diet drug sibutramine, sold under the brand name Meridia, should be taken off the market because it raises the risk of heart attacks and strokes in some patients, the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine said today.

S Prof goes on fatty food diet to prove popular health beliefs as myt - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:38:55 -0700
Washington, Sep 02 : A Kansas State University professor is on a 30 day long diet of entirely snack cakes and fatty foods to prove that some common beliefs about nutrition are untrue.

bbott diet drug study renews calls for U.S. ba - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:30:53 -0700
A study funded by Abbott Laboratories offered more detailed evidence that its weight-loss drug Meridia increases heart risks, prompting renewed calls by consumer advocates and others to pull the drug from the market.

edical Journal Says Diet Pill Meridia Is 'Flawed - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:31:34 -0700
Editors of a top medical journal call Meridia "another flawed diet pill" and question whether it should stay on the market as a study shows it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with heart problems.