Plant-Based Diet and Metabolic Health

What Are Plant-Based Diets? Plant-based diets have become popular recently for both health and environmental reasons.1 The different types of...

What Is LDL Cholesterol?

What Is Cholesterol? Cholesterol is a wax-like substance that plays a crucial role in the human body.1 It is an...

Low-Calorie Diet and Metabolic Health

What Is a Low-Calorie Diet? A low-calorie or a hypocaloric diet is a diet designed to lower daily caloric intake.1...

Plant-Based Diet and Metabolic Health

What Are Plant-Based Diets? Plant-based diets have become popular recently for both health and environmental reasons.1 The different types of plant-based diets are known to be rich in nutrients, micronutrients, and fiber, yet low in calories and saturated fat. Plant-based diets are generally divided into six categories: vegetarian, vegan, raw vegan, lacto-vegetarian, ovo-vegetarian, and lacto-ovo-vegetarian. Vegetarian diets...

What Is LDL Cholesterol?

What Is Cholesterol? Cholesterol is a wax-like substance that plays a crucial role in the human body.1 It is an integral part of every cellular membrane and is a precursor to various hormones. Cholesterol is naturally lipophilic, meaning it dissolves and is attracted to fats instead of water.2 As such, cholesterol is carried through the bloodstream as...

Low-Calorie Diet and Metabolic Health

What Is a Low-Calorie Diet? A low-calorie or a hypocaloric diet is a diet designed to lower daily caloric intake.1 A conventional low-calorie diet usually aims for daily caloric intake of 1,500-1,800 kcal/day for males and 1,200-1,500 kcal/day for females, lower than the average daily caloric requirements of 2,600-2,800 kcal/day for males and 2,000-2,200 kcal/day for females.1,2...

Abdominal Obesity

What Is Abdominal Obesity? Obesity is a chronic disease defined as a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30 kg/m2 and is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide.1,2 However, perhaps even more detrimental than overall obesity is abdominal obesity. Abdominal obesity is characterized by increased adipose (ie, fat) tissues around the intra-abdominal organs.3...

How Is Liver Health Related to Metabolic Health?

Liver health is intricately related to overall metabolic health.1 Studies show that incidences of certain chronic liver diseases have increased, in parallel to increases in obesity and metabolic disorders. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a type of chronic liver disease characterized by metabolic abnormalities that gives an insight into how metabolic health affects overall health,...

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