There are tons of diet fads that make the news every year. For 2017, however, the focus is not so much on weight loss but on health improvement. Many people are targeting full-body experiences to increase their health indexes.
If you are tired of diets that fail and pants that don’t fit, it’s time to check out health and diet trends and find one that’s right for you.
1. Wearable Tech — Pushing Health Further
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Wearable tech works to help you improve your health and lose weight in many ways. First, many of the apps and products that are wearable health can remind us to exercise and track what we eat. The human body is what it consumes so anything that helps us monitor fat and sugar intake can help us shed fat. Another benefit of wearable tech is that it fits effortlessly into our lives without being a burden. There are so many applications available that you can just pick one or two the fit your health goals. They allow you to do more, go farther, and find the result you want quicker.
2. Using Health as a Goal
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There is a big focus on long-term health and many people use the fact that what we do and eat today writes our health future. If we eat high fat and high salt diets then our future is heart disease, stroke, and arterial diseases. Knowing that helps people focus on preventative health through exercise and diet. This trend is not specifically about losing ten pounds, but on creating a lifestyle that promotes health. One benefit is that weight loss occurs naturally and it is more sustainable than dieting. In addition, as we lose fat and gain health we tend to enjoy life more.
3. Mediterranean Diet
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The Mediterranean diet focuses on the lower portion of the food pyramid. This is a diet that is rich in foods from plants. The idea is to balance protein intake to avoid the saturated fats in meat and poultry. There is a big push within the diet to replace unhealthy fats such as butter with plant-based fats and oils such as those from avocados and cooking oils such as olive oil. By replacing unhealthy fats with those that are unsaturated, you gain heart health. By replacing meat proteins with those from plants you gain a huge boost in vitamin and mineral intake which helps your body work more efficiently. The natural side effect is weight loss providing that your caloric intake remains healthy.
4. High-Energy Workouts — Burning Brighter
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Busy people find it difficult to fit in long exercise sessions into their daily lives. With high-intensity workouts, you burn more calories in a shorter time frame. So, instead of spending two hours at the gym, you can spend a half-hour at a Cross Fit session and gain stamina, burn calories, and tone your body. The short duration high-intensity works outs help people who want to exercise every day but lack the free time to commit to a gym membership or exercise program. These sorts of exercise classes pair nicely with diets such as the Mediterranean diet where healthy eating helps generate natural weight loss.
5. Adding Apps to Lose Weight
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There are a ton of apps available that help people target and correct specific habits that are unique to them. Where a diet or exercise program might not be enough or might not address underlying issues, apps can. There are plenty of different apps to choose from and each offers its own unique perspective on helping people lose weight, overcome eating issues, and gaining health. The beautiful thing about apps is that you can pair them to find even greater success. A good example would be an app that helps you to stop smoking and another that helps you choose healthy foods when you need to graze.
6. Phase Diet
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Phase diets are the brainchild of Doug Kaufmann the focus on the effects of fungi as a parasitic organism rather than a symbiotic one. The phase diet is big as many people are more health focused in 2017. However, the hot topic here is the phase 2 diet which is the second rung up the later on Kaufmann’s “wellness plan.” Phase 2 begins when the symptoms from which you suffer are gone. The difference between Phase 1 and Phase 2 is what you eat. The idea is to progressively build a healthy diet by increasing permitted foods as your health improves.
7. Focus on Strength Building
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In 2017, the focus on building the biggest, most muscled body is out the door. Instead, people are latching onto the idea that strength is a far different beast than we’ve been taught. The trends for 2017 are to focus on building strength rather than burning carbs. For many people who diet and use exercise as a way to burn greater amounts of fat, the switch to focusing on strength is positive. It allows you to eat a sensible diet and work on creating a body that fits its frame. We’ve all seen those people with oversized muscles that look “inflated” rather than natural. The naturally fit look is in while overinflated is out.
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8. Putting Yourself in Nature
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People are ditching the gym and the endless miles they tread on treadmills and elliptical machines and instead, taking their game outdoors. Nature trails, parks, and wild spaces are in. The idea is to enhance your entire being rather than just to burn calories. By running in nature you gain a positive benefit for your mind, fresh air to breath for your lungs, and the exhilaration of nature. People are choosing to train for marathons by running over natural courses. They are choosing to walk more and sit less. This trend has been slowly growing over the last decade and 2017 is a huge year for training in nature.
9. Superfoods — Diet Boosting Health Gaining
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Superfoods are vegetables, roots, and plant-based foods that offer a high concentration of nutrients or health benefits. Superfoods are big and in 2017 they are growing even more popular. Superfoods often have the ability to help you lose weight without having to run marathons. They boost health levels and are perfect for people who want to target specific health concerns. We read about superfoods all the time. They include foods like tomatoes, nuts, fish, and even dark chocolate. Many of these foods are high in specific types of amino acids. They are easy to add to your everyday life and most are affordable such as broccoli.
10. The Mind Diet
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The Mind diet is an acronym that stands for the Mediterranean – Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay diet. The focus here is on brain-boosting foods that address brain health. For anyone who is concerned about dementia related diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, then the MIND diet might be worth considering. Very positive results were published in the Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. The study, which is peer-reviewed, showed that the MIND diet had a positive effect on decreasing mental decline. By looking deeper into how the body uses nutrition to drive brain function, researchers are helping people take proactive steps toward the reduction of dementia.
11. Education vs Repetitive Failure
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2017 is a year marked by people educating themselves on the power of nutrition, disease prevention, and exercise. This trend coupled with other trends is driving the healthy living lifestyle. Rather than to get on the diet and failed diet rollercoaster, people are looking at the smart ways to address weight loss, current and long-term health issues, and fitness. It is no longer adequate not eat to lose weight or to buy a $billion worth of health supplements. People want to know which foods to enjoy and which to avoid. They want to learn more about how to exercise smartly so that the results are both sustainable and visible.
12. Using a Wellness Coach or Personal Trainer
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People are more inclined to pay for the services of a professional — someone who is licensed or certified — to help them address the unique challenges. This means that people are using life coaches to find direction on how to approach health, fitness, and weight loss while balancing career, family, and education. They are also turning to the capable hands of personal trainers that help them focus on building self-confidence and willpower when it comes to losing fat and adding health. This trend is hot in 2017 because people are tired of failing at dieting and professionals help them sort out their challenges so that they can face and conquer those challenges.
13. Yoga
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Yoga is an ancient art form that has many positive benefits in the modern lifestyle. It is a perfect discipline for anyone who wants to focus on a whole-body approach to building health and losing weight. Though not specifically a weight loss tool, Yoga helps people lose weight be finding balance in other areas of their lives. Yoga helps people gain muscle strength and improve flexibility while balancing metabolism and increasing energy levels. Yoga is a positive for the mind, body, and spirit and the side effect of finding balance in those three areas is weight loss. Yoga is easy to fit into active lifestyles and you can do Yoga anywhere.
14. Looking at Genetic Barriers for Weight Loss and Disease
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People are looking into the story of their genetic code to identify issues that they have with losing weight and at the chances of developing diseases such as cancer and autoimmune diseases. Weight loss is a struggle for many people and simple adjustments to hormones can remove barriers that diet and exercise cannot. That is just one example of how the power of science is helping people overcome health concerns. Another is found within our genetic code in the form of indicators for long-term health problems such as heart disease. By looking now, people can be proactive in approaching how they live so that the impact of those diseases is reduced. What’s your genetic code have to say about your health?
15. Group Sessions for Exercise
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Teaming up to lose weight is big this year. The idea is that it is easier to stay motivated if you approach weight loss as a team. The trend is a take-off on shows like the “Biggest Loser.” One of the major reasons people stop losing weight is that they lose the motivation. Their expectations for immediate results are usually too high so they stop trying because they fail to meet those expectations. Groups help to even out the expectations by showing that weight loss and health are not just about us, but about the ability to believe that we can succeed.
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