What about these 'teasers' on website news articles? "Precious is so skinny now and looks like a model - we can't stop staring..." and "Anne Hegerty is so skinny now and looks gorgeous!". "After her weight loss, Celine Dion confirms what we knew all along".
Were they on diets in 2019? Maybe they those one these these 2019 diet trends. Read the list and tele if the article would be titled: "No one believed what she ate to get so skinny!"
1. Keto diet - involves very low carbohydrates and moderate protein so that 70 to 80 percent intake comes from fat
2. 16:8 is a fasting diet - involves fasting for 16 continuous hours, then being free to eat whatever is wanted for the other eight, every day. The most widely researched approach is taking the eight-hour eating window between 10 and 6pm
3. Alkaline diet - limiting acid forming foods like meat, fish, dairy, grains, alcohol and highly processed foods and refined sugars, while bumping up your intake of alkaline forming foods like fruit and veggies.
4. Blood type diet - tailoring your diet to suit your blood type so people with type O should have a diet rich in animal protein but light on grains, type A should stick to a vegetarian diet, and types B and AB should eat slightly differently
5. Mediterranean diet - sticking to a plant-based diet of wholegrain, olive oil, fruits, veggies, legumes, nuts, herbs and spices - this one is recommended as a good way of eating
1. medicinal mushrooms - fungi-infused teas are available at David's Tea for example. 2. oat milk - this is becoming a leading dairy alternative 3. cauliflower - this is a low-carb stand-in - make pizza crust to faux steak 4. elderberry - with anti-inflammatory benefits, it is on the rise as an ingredient 5. cannabis infusions - Coca-Cola was recently in talks with B.C. cannabis producer to make a CBD-infused wellness drink
No food photos today - we're looking at a layout at the Sacramento Narrow Gauge Convention.
Google trending searches for 2018 included topics like actors, athletes, people categories. We are mostly obsessed with people. Here's a search I wouldn't have imagined - magnetic eyelashes. The magnets lock together between the natural lashes and secure the false lash along the natural lash line. So ingenious!
Google has a diet theme. Here are the top searches on diets:
keto - eliminate all the carbs and put butter in your coffee not cream dubrow - interval eating to confuse the "satiety centre" noom - an app focused on behavioural change carnivore - foods that walked, swam or flew and pretty well nothing else - aka anti-vegan diet mediterranean - plant-based emphasis, olive oil, herbs, limited red meat
That was in 2018. What are healthline's predictions for the diet trends that will dominate 2019?
gut health - balancing the microbiome plant proteins - new this year - dandelion greens, rainbow carrots, beets and amaranth intermittent fasting - easy to follow keto diet - spotlight in 2018 will continue in 2019 hemp - anti-inflammatory effects bitter food - asparagus, cucumbers, detox the GI tract un-dieting - futility of dieting trend
And they conclude with an eighth one - intuitive eating - the practice of increasing one's awareness and experience of eating.
So many news organizations have been covering diets. U.S. News ranked diets on January 2nd, right in time for the resolutions - they ranked 41 diets overall. That's a lot of diets to choose from. They are HERE. The top three are: Mediterranean, DASH, Flexitarian and MIND (tied with Flexitarian).
A few more of our winter ice and fog pictures from a few days ago.
