Cookbook:Special Diets
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Cookbook | Recipes | Special Diets
Food is an individual preference, but often there are medical reasons for choosing a particular special diet. Other people are trying to lose or maintain weight, or dealing with food allergies, or have ethical or religious preferences that dictate the foods they will eat. The following is a list of major diets and the reasons for following those diets.
- Atkins Diet Cooking (Weight-loss; Low-carb)
- Caloric Restriction with Optimal Nutrition (General health, life-extension)
- Gluten-Free (Wheat-, barley-, and rye-free)
- High Protein Diet (Weight-loss)
- Muslim Cooking (Religious)
- Karma Free (Religious)
- Kosher food (Religious)
- Lactose-free Cooking (Allergies; free of unfermented and untreated milk)
- Low-allergen Cooking (Allergies)
- Low-fat Cooking (General Health)
- Low-GI Diet (Diabetic)
- Low-sodium Cooking (General Health)
- Macrobiotic Cooking (General Health)
- Pritikin Cooking (Weight-loss)
- Raw Diet (Ethical; Religious; General health)
- South Beach Diet Cooking (Weight-loss; Low-GI/GL)
- Vegetarian cuisine (Ethical; Religious; General Health)
- Vegan cuisine (Ethical; Religious; General Health)
- Weight Watchers Recipes (Weight-loss)
[edit] External links
- Cindalou's Kitchen Blues Gluten Free, Lactose Free, Casein Free,+... Recipes and Information
