[edit] Standard American Diet
The "Standard American Diet" (S.A.D.) is a similar term, specifically used to denigrate what some authors say is the stereotypical diet of Americans.
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standard American diet. They found that the raw foodists were thinner and had a lower average body mass index(BMI) than volunteers and that their bones were lighter.
SAD
Standard American Diet
Set Point
"...that weight toward which one naturally drifts." [Walford, _B120YD_].
In contrast to the Standard American Diet (SAD), the diet of the Mediterranean people includes primarily fresh, seasonal vegetables and freshly caught fish rather than canned or imported produce.
Each cell in our body needs to maintain a ratio of sodium to potassium and in the "standard American diet" has the sodium ratio way too high. I also have ill effects when I eat any salt.
April 25, 2000 -- If you eat a standard American diet, there's a good chance that you are ingesting a lot more protein than your body actually needs.
A raw food diet tends to have fewer trans fats and saturated fats, which are found in the standard American diet, and have been known to be high in cholesterol, a leading cause of heart disease.
These instincts are built in, but the S.A.D. diet (Standard American Diet) is so loaded with processed food that has no counterpart in nature, it's no wonder the signal is getting lost.
Manny Alvarez based on his observations that Latin American immigrants were usually slim and healthy when they first arrived in the United States but within several years of a standard American diet they were usually overweight.
This diet is hard to follow, though, because it's so different from the standard American diet and from the diets of vegetarians or others committed to eating healthfully.
 See also: Health, Diet, Eating, Vegetable, Fat
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