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Indonesian cuisine is a collection of various regional culinary traditions that formed in the archipelagic nation of Indonesia.There are a wide variety of recipes and cuisines in part because Indonesia is composed of approximately 6,000 populated islands of the total 17,508 in the world's largest archipelago, [1] [2] with more than 600 ethnic groups.
A cup of Java coffee, Javanese kopi tubruk. This is a list of Indonesian drinks.The most common and popular Indonesian drinks and beverages are teh and kopi ().Indonesian households commonly serve teh manis (sweet tea) or kopi tubruk (coffee mixed with sugar and hot water and poured straight in the glass without separating out the coffee residue) to guests.
The macrobiotic diet is associated with Zen Buddhism and is based on the idea of balancing yin and yang. [3] The diet proposes ten plans which are followed to reach a supposedly ideal yin:yang ratio of 5:1. [9] The diet was popularized by George Ohsawa in the 1930s and subsequently elaborated on by his disciple Michio Kushi. [6]
The routine use of VLCDs is not recommended due to safety concerns, but this approach can be used under medical supervision if there is a clinical rationale for rapid weight loss in obese individuals, as part of a "multi-component weight management strategy" with continuous support and for a maximum of 12 weeks, according to the NICE 2014 guidelines. [12]
A desire to lose weight is a common motivation to change dietary habits, as is a desire to maintain an existing weight. Many weight loss diets are considered by some to entail varying degrees of health risk, and some are not widely considered to be effective.
Historically, a healthy diet was defined as a diet comprising more than 55% of carbohydrates, less than 30% of fat and about 15% of proteins. [33] This view is currently shifting towards a more comprehensive framing of dietary needs as a global need of various nutrients with complex interactions, instead of per nutrient type needs. [34]
Jamu (Javanese: ꦗꦩꦸ) is a traditional medicine from Indonesia. It is predominantly a herbal medicine made from natural materials, such as roots, bark, flowers, seeds, leaves and fruits. [1] Materials acquired from animals, such as honey, royal jelly, milk and native chicken eggs are often used as well.
The fruits-and-vegetables diet was also successful, although it produced more modest reductions compared with the control diet (2.8 mm Hg systolic and 1.1 mm Hg diastolic). [27] In the subjects with and without hypertension, the combination diet effectively reduced blood pressure more than the fruits-and-vegetables diet or the control diet did.