Comparison and Contrast of Diet
general article writing
Description
In your response to those posts below (post one and two ), compare and contrast
the diet that you selected with the one that your classmate chose. How are the
energy inputs different? Is there an explanation for the different energy inputs? (
250 words each )
Post 2
There are different types of diets around the world with too many to list, but we
can group some of them together. There are the vegetarian diets, which excludes
meat and they also avoid food containing by-products of animal slaughter. Semi-
vegetarian diets are mostly vegetarian but allow small amounts of meats to be
consumed. There are weight control diets, which address people, who want to lose
weight. Weight control diets can be divided into low-calorie diets, very low calorie
diets, which requires to consume less than 800 calories a day, low-carbohydrate
diets, and low-fat diets. Crash or fad diets are diets that require extreme and rapid
changes to one’s diet. (Almendrala, 2016) There are also other diets which cannot
be grouped such as: blood type diet, eat-clean diet, alkaline diet, low carbon diet or
locavore, organic diet, and others. Locavore diet describes eating food locally
produced, thus reducing the greenhouse gasses. Low carbon diet is like the
locavore diet, as it based on reducing the carbon foot print by eating food produced
only in a small radius, such as within 100 miles. (Priebe, n.d.)
Organic food diet is based on food produced without any chemical fertilizers,
genetic modifications, or food additives.
Dietary choice: No specific diet, but a mix out of different diets: locally grown,
small portion, rich in healthy fats, green vegetables, eggs, chicken.
Dinner plate:
Type of protein – Chicken, which is low on Megajoules, and has the lowest
amount of CO2 of the three meats. ( Carlsson-Kanyama, 2004)
