Question 2: What is the organization? What is its primary business or services? What is the organizational mission or purpose? How would you characterize the organizational culture? What are the primary strategic objectives or long-range plans for the organization? Diets to Go facilitates weight loss with nutritionally calibrated food, following a series of different plans, including traditional weight loss, low-fat vegetarian, and low-carb. The traditional and vegetarian plans are offered as

"Excessive caffeine intake can lead to a fast heart rate, diuresis (excessive urination), nausea and vomiting, restlessness, anxiety, depression, tremors, and difficulty sleeping." (MedlinePlus, Medical Encyclopedia, Website, 2003) The heart is clearly effected by the way in which we eat, although sometimes not as major focus when the goal of losing weigh is at its highest emotional stage. Obesity is regarded as one of the most physically, emotionally and socially

Diets and Young Women It seems that women today are exceptionally obsessed with their bodies and how they look. Our culture admires the ultra-thin while ostracizing and ridiculing the overweight and obese. The overweight are seen as weak and even lazy, while those who are thin are seen as strong and energized. The media continually shows thin people enjoying and participating in life - it is as if fat people do

High-Protein Diets and Colon Cancer Risk High-Protein Diets Increase the Prevalence of Colon Cancer Risk Factors The increased prevalence of high protein, low carbohydrate diets is evidence of the need for effective weight loss strategies. These diets help individual's lose weight by producing a feeling of satiety that limits calorie intake. The health benefits associated with this type of diet are associated primarily with weight loss and can include improved insulin sensitivity.

Zone vs. Paleo Diets Paleo Diet This refers to the diet of the Paleolithic or cave man before the beginning of civilization, modern agriculture and technology. It is believed to have been largely made of lean red meat and vegetation. The cave man was a hunter and gatherer and his adherents today imitate him by complementing the diet with vigorous physical activity, which he engaged in. They actually hunt their own food in

The table below represents the major diets over the past few decades that have some medical and longitudinal veracity (e.g. they are not fad diets, e.g. "grapefruit diet"). Of course, each new issue of a woman's magazine purports to have the right answer with the right diet, which only shows America's obsession with losing weight and bears the question -- if these new diets worked so well, why would we