Self-love has recently been a huge movement, one that’s really enticing and positive. It includes taking care of your mental, emotional, and, most importantly, physical health. Since diet and nutrition is one of the key factors to maintaining physical health, it’s important to know what type of diets work for your body type and your daily activities.
Needless to say, you should see your physician before committing to any diet, just to make sure that you’re not actually doing more harm than good to your health. Once that’s out of the way, you have to know which places you can go to for a nice, hearty meal.
Here’s a list of restaurants you should try out if you’re on one of these diets:
VEGETARIAN
Vegetarianism is gaining popularity in the last few years. This is a diet where one doesn’t eat meat at all. From its name, you could already tell that it’s a vegetable-based diet. Without any meat, it’s easy fall short on your iron intake. Get a full and balanced vegetarian meal at Bodhi Vegetarian Health Food.
This humble food court restaurant boasts quite an array of different vegetarian dishes made of vegetables and veggie meat. You’d even enjoy it even you were an avid meat-eater, that’s for sure!
Branches: SM Megamall, SM North EDSA, SM Manila, SM Fairview, SM Baguio, and SM Tarlac.
KETOGENIC
A Ketogenic diet focuses on cutting down glucose and insulin by maintaining a low-carbohydrate diet. The average Filipino consumes large amounts of carbohydrates daily in the form of rice.
People on this diet avoid carbohydrate intake but consume protein and fat. This is a low-carb, high-fat diet which makes Locavore the perfect place to enjoy a meal. You can get classic Filipino meat dishes like sisig and lechon on sizzling platters. They’re so good at serving up sizzling dishes, they even have sizzling sinigang. You won’t need any sides—or rice—to enjoy their food because their dishes are good by themselves.
Branch: S Maison
PESCETARIAN
In the most basic sense of the word, a pescetarian diet consists of only seafood and vegetables. This is a manageable and doable diet because of restaurants like Blue Posts Boiling Crabs and Shrimps where there’s insanely good seafood.
Adopting this diet means cutting out red meat like beef and pork but having an array of the freshest catches of the sea makes it a whole lot of fun.
Branches: SM North EDSA and SM Mall of Asia.
PALEO
Taking inspiration from our distant ancestors, the Paleolithic diet, also known as caveman’s diet, excludes all processed food from their intake. They eat purely whole, unprocessed meat, fruits, and nuts—think about how humans in the Stone Age ate.
Bare it down to the necessities that your body needs at Cafe Mediterranean. They have the freshest vegetables and lean meat to create that balance and supply the nutrition you need—and they make it taste really great! Besides, Mediterranean cuisine is one of the healthiest and cleanest cuisines in the world.
Branch: SM Mall of Asia
CALORIE CONTROL
Counting how many calories you consume is made easier at Salad Stop! because you actually get to see how many calories are in your order. It’s also a plus that the ambience and food are very refreshing.
They make counting calories a breeze and taste great.
Branches: SM Mall of Asia and SM Megamall.
GLUTEN-FREE
When people think of “gluten-free,” they immediately think that means no more bread. They couldn’t be more wrong because California Pizza Kitchen, lovingly called CPK, actually serves up a bomb gluten-free pizza.
You won’t have to miss the goodness of pizza for fear of gluten anymore. Head on over to CPK and have yourself a piece, guilt-free.
Branch: SM Mall of Asia
VEGETARIAN
Vegetarianism is gaining popularity in the last few years. This is a diet where one doesn’t eat meat at all. From its name, you could already tell that it’s a vegetable-based diet. Without any meat, it’s easy fall short on your iron intake. Get a full and balanced vegetarian meal at Bodhi Vegetarian Health Food.
This humble food court restaurant boasts quite an array of different vegetarian dishes made of vegetables and veggie meat. You’d even enjoy it even you were an avid meat-eater, that’s for sure!
Branches: SM Megamall, SM North EDSA, SM Manila, SM Fairview, SM Baguio, and SM Tarlac.
