A vegetable diet

Those of you looking for the perfect diet, consider the vegetable diet route! Stay healthy while you diet and get all your recommended daily vitamins and minerals. Vegetable diets should be used sensibly. I am not a medical doctor and cannot advise you what will or will not work for you to help you lose weight. But I have assembled for you some helpful *tips* that you can consider:

Take Suite 101's Vegetarian Diet course by Joy Butler. This great mini-course gives you insight on what vitamins and minerals are in your vegetables. It gives calories, recipes, ideas to get your protein intake, and much more!

Try the Lillie Ross vegetable soup diet plan!

If you visit the Lillie Ross website, you can sign up for a free newsletter. You can also get her recipe for a great vegetable soup and a day-by-day diet plan. Many people say they have lost weight using this diet, although I haven't personally tried it. I did sign up for the free newsletter and I really enjoy the vegetable diet tips Lillie Ross provides, as well as the recipes.

Did you Know? Celery has negative calories. Being almost absent of calories, the process of eating consumes calories, netting you a negative calorie meal or snack!

Originating in the Mediterranean, Celery has been grown as a food crop for thousands of years. It has also had many other uses dating back to ancient times.

Celery has few carbohydrates. It has important vitamins and minerals. If you're health conscious, you can eat them all day long....

Did you Know? According to Texas A&M University (PlantAnswers.org): "One baked sweet potato (3 1/2 ounce serving) provides over 8,800 IU of vitamin A or about twice the recommended daily allowance, yet it contains only 141 calories making it valuable for the weight watcher. This nutritious vegetable provides 42 percent of the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for vitamin C, 6 percent of the RDA for calcium, 10 percent of the RDA for iron, and 8 percent of the RDA for thiamine for healthy adults."