Can you supply special diets?

Global Crossroad can provide both vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals. Occasionally, in the event that you require a special diet, you are responsible for your own meals. Participants are strongly urged to inform Global Crossroad of any special dietary need prior to arrival in-country.We make virtually any diet in powder, extruded pellets, or liquid form. Our proprietary process allows us to produce extruded pellets with fat content as high as 60%kcal (35% fat by weight).

Can Research Diets add test compounds to diets?

With precision and consistency, we can homogeneously blend virtually any test compound, medication, or nutrient into any commercial "chow," or into one of our more than 10,000 existing OpenSource Diets. This is effective for administering pharmaceuticals and conducting toxicity studies.Diets do not teach us how to change our lifestyles. This is why people cannot maintain their weight loss once it has occurs. Diets teach deprivation or the eating of specialty type diet foods, and because of this, we cannot possibly stay on it Dieting and restricting our bodies of proper nutrition will affect our metabolism. After all, our bodies will not let us starve. Eating less food actually makes it really hard to lose weight. Our bodies will hold onto the weight to survive.

Can Research Diets duplicate diets we are currently using?

If you have an existing diet formula - either one you prepare yourself or a diet from another company - we will duplicate it for you. We will produce it in whatever form you wish - pellet, powder, or liquid and ship it to you in 5 to 7 business days or less. Just provide us with the complete formula. We formulate and produce diets for all laboratory animal species, including rats, mice, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, primates, and swine.People who try to control their hypoglycemia symptoms generally are on one of the following diets (in random order): DIABETES DIET -- This diet is fairly high in carbohydrates, about 50-60% carbohydrates, no sugar is allowed, use complex instead of simple carbohydrates: brown bread/rice, etc. Frequent meals are also highly recommended. You might contact people with diabetes on Usenet, via the heavy-traffic newsgroup misc.health.diabetes .Beware of starvation diet!You might be surprised but very low calorie dieting among teens leads to gaining weight.

Why OpenSource Diets?

In OpenSource Diets, each nutrient is meticulously added as a separate purified ingredient. Each ingredient is obtained from a reliable and traceable source. OpenSource Diets provide a reliable, repeatable base for your research, with absolute consistency from batch-to-batch, year-after-year. Unlike common commercial grain-based animal feed or "chows," our precise open-formula purified diets match your exacting research standards and procedures.Global Crossroad can provide both vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals. Occasionally, in the event that you require a special diet, you are responsible for your own meals.

What about special diets?

The field of nutrition is a lot like religion. There are many different conflicting beliefs. Try not to be overwhelmed by dogma, jargon, or testimonials. Use your common sense, and carefully test the different diets. Eventually, you will know what's true.If you have an existing diet formula - either one you prepare yourself or a diet from another company - we will duplicate it for you. We will produce it in whatever form you wish - pellet, powder, or liquid and ship it to you in 5 to 7 business days or less. Just provide us with the complete formula.

Are there any diets out there that work?

Yes, they all work, but continue reading please. The reason they work is because whenever a major food group is eliminated from a person's diet, weight loss will occur. Of course, when you begin eating that food again, you regain the weight. Whenever calories are restricted, weight loss will occur. But when a normal caloric intake is resumed, the weight returns. This is because most of the foods used in diets are manufactured, refined, and processed.With precision and consistency, we can homogeneously blend virtually any test compound, medication, or nutrient into any commercial "chow," or into one of our more than 10,000 existing OpenSource Diets. This is effective for administering pharmaceuticals and conducting toxicity studies.