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Eating for wellness: Development, analysis, comparison and discussion of meal plans based on the Mediterranean and vegetarian dietary patterns

Obesity has become a world-wide epidemic with three billion people being overweight (World Health Organisation, 2014). The solution offered is dieting, with different experts advocating different diets. However, it has been observed over time that diets may work for losing some weight initially but not in the long term or, they might work for some individuals but not others. This points to the multifactorial influence (genetic, biological, epigenetic) on weight loss and management, and therefore the approach should be individualised – one size does not fit all (Smethers and Rolls, 2018). In this report, an individualised approach is taken for a hypothetical client, Claudia, who is a 38 years old female in good health who wants to lose weight. She will be offered diet plans based on the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) and the Vegetarian diet (VEG) according to Eat Well Guide (EWG) so she can choose which diet plan meets best her needs. The diet plans were put through the Nutritics software for further analysis of composition and comparison (see Appendix). It is important that there is a balanced intake of the main nutrients i.e. carbohydrates, proteins and fats, which the report further discusses alongside the two diet plans.