Diets
Everything about specific diets. (271 posts)
The Air Diet: Why Eat When You Can Pretend!
Brace yourself for the silliest fad diet yet -- it's called the Air Diet!
A French-created weight loss plan where you consume, well you've probably guessed it, nothing at all!
The diet was apparently made popular by a Dolce & Gabbana campaign, which featured Madonna and other celebrities holding food up to their mouths, but not eating it.
» moreKirstie Alley Weight Loss Program: Organic Liaison
It's official. Kirstie Alley now has her own weight loss program called Organic Liaison. Two years ago she was sent packing from Jenny Craig - possibly for not sticking with the program.
She promised she would come back with her own program, and here it is.
» moreCan You Detox Safely?
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I'm pretty much against "detoxing," but I think the word itself may be evolving to take on a new meaning.
The detox concept has certainly been around for a while, and (unfortunately) it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
According to the market research firm Mintel, in the last year there was a 108 percent increase in foods making detox claims. They predict detoxing will be a major trend in consumer packaged goods in 2010.
» morePoll: Couch Potato Diet
Do you want to eat pizza, pasta, burgers, ice cream, chips, cookies, and candy and still lose weight and keep it off for good?
Wouldn't that be just peachy? Well, that's the claim of The Couch Potato Diet written by Gregory J.E. Ladas.
» moreEat Like a Viking And Lose Weight
The latest diet to hit the headlines draws on Scandinavia for inspiration, and means eating Viking-style. Helmets and longboats optional...
Professor Arne Astrup, an obesity expert who heads Copenhagen University's department of human nutrition, believes that the Nordic diet is perfect for keeping us slim.
» moreAre You Cheating On Your Diet?
A survey by LighterLife, less than a few weeks into 2010, revealed that 36% of women are cheating on their New Year's diet.
The results from 2,000 women, are no particular shock, but they do come as a timely reminder about good (and less good) weight loss habits.
» moreThe Top 10 Diets That Work
The folks at The Daily Beast have had a go at ranking commercial diets. They've searched through clinical studies and attempted to rank the diets according to amount of weight lost over 6-12 months, and retention rate.
This is a difficult exercise to do as cherry-picked trials never give a whole picture, and is it really possible to rank diets? Well... it doesn't stop us trying.
Here are the top 10:
» moreGrains Much Older Than We Thought
Grain consumption was thought to be a phenomena that began only in the past 20,000 years. But, archaeological evidence suggests man has been eating grains for a good 100,000 years.
Several stone tools found during an excavation in southeastern Africa represent the earliest evidence of human reliance on grains for sustenance, according to Julio Mercader, the University of Calgary researcher who uncovered the artifacts.
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