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Posted High-sugar Foods Leading Cause of AMD Vision Loss to Diet Blog
Food diets containing excessive amounts of sugar may not only affect a person's BMI (body mass index) and fitness. High-sugar foods have also been connected to a specific type of vision impairment, as a leading cause of age-related macular degeneration also known as AMD. AMD is an eye condition that normally affects people late in life causing a deterioration of...
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Posted 6 Simple Habits For A Smaller You to Diet Blog
If you want a smaller, healthier you, keep it simple. Start seeing food as fuel. There are YES foods that fuel your body and NO foods that exhaust your body. Make it a habit to choose YES foods and you'll be well on your way to a slimmer, healthier, and more energetic you....
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Posted Overcoming Toxic Hunger: A Major Cause of Obesity to Diet Blog
This is a guest post from Dr Joel Fuhrman MD. Most people never experience the healthy sensation of feeling hungry. Most of us keep eating to avoid hunger! But actually, feeling hungry is healthy. It directs your body to consume the amount of calories it requires for optimal health and ideal bodyweight. Hunger, in the true sense of the...
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Posted Easy Ways to Eat More Greens to Diet Blog
I loved the topic in the New York Times WellBlog... "Lying About Your Vegetables". Another study has been published to show that people inflate the amount of veggies they consume each day. The blogger asks readers to "fess up" if they lie about their daily veggie intake. The post inspired me to tell you about an easy way to plan...
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Posted An Honest Guide to Weight Loss to Diet Blog
There has been much talk lately about the obesity epidemic which is sweeping the world, and the ensuing panic has resulted in an avalanche of books and articles packed with ideas about why we are growing larger and what we can do about it. As a physician struggling with making sense of all this over the past few decades, I...
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Posted How To: Make Your Own Pre-packaged Soups to Diet Blog
With the current high cost of groceries, everybody is looking for ways to cut costs, but still maintain the same high level of quality of their food and nutritional content for their meals. Since time is a valuable commodity as well, a way to save money and time is to purchase your food items in bulk. But how do...
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Posted Shame on You: Weight Loss Tactics That Don't Work to Diet Blog
I'm a sucker for reality shows that focus on weight loss. Typically, these shows feature people who are attempting to lose weight and get fit with the whole world watching. Last night I watched a show about three women trying to get "thin" for their wedding day. Although the template for this show was typical, the tactics involved seemed pretty...
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Posted 3 Dieting Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them to Diet Blog
As a nutritionist who was once fat, I have examined the weight issue from every angle. I have worked with thousands of clients in successfully fighting fat and I am now, myself, tiny and fit, a mere fraction of my once fat self. A big part of the problem is that dieters do nothing to change their mental state. Your...
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Posted Why on Earth Should You Read Another Weight Loss Book? to Diet Blog
This is a guest post from blogger and author Jennette Fulda. Which can you name more of - recent fad diets or state capitals? Unless you were the winner of your elementary school's geography bee, you probably said fad diets. After all, there are only 50 state capitals but there are 50 bazillion weight-loss books. Well, now there are 50...
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Posted The Skinny on "Light" Juices to Diet Blog
This is a guest post from Kerry McLeod of eBrandAid. It seems that juice manufacturers are capitalizing on our culture's obsession with weight by putting their juices on a "diet!" Just walk down any juice aisle and find many of your favorite juices in low-calorie, sugar-free varieties. We're all looking to cut calories - but are these emaciated juices sacrificing...
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Posted What is No Diet Day? to Diet Blog
This is a guest post from Cari Corbet-Owen May 6th may not be as big as May 11th - Mother's Day - but I predict it's a day that will grow in importance. May 6th is International No Diet Day. It's history? It was started 16 years ago in the dining room of Mary Evans, the British director for Diet...
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Posted The Glamor Side of Thin Always Wins to Diet Blog
There are two reasons for our obsession with thinness: 'health' or 'desirability'. Many will do anything to get thin for 'glamor's' sake, but under the guise of health. It seems that we humans take extreme measures - that can be exceedingly unhealthy - in order to fit into the body beautiful culture....
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Posted A Different Take on the Breakfast Debate to Diet Blog
The following is a guest post from Cari Corbet-Owen. This post challenges the assumption that an early breakfast keeps you slim. I'm tired of the 'breakfast buzz' - every breakfast article finds that eating first thing is essential. Fact is, much 'breakfast research' is done by groups that have a lot invested in the "Eat Breakfast like a King" theory....
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Posted 5 Amazing Things You Can Learn from a Toddler to Diet Blog
If you are having a hard time getting motivated to eat right and exercise, take note of how a toddler goes about their day....
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Posted Could Vegetables Be the Ideal Food for Weight Loss? to Diet Blog
Editor's note: This is a guest post from Gerry Pugliese of DiseaseProof. America, we're shell-shocked! The fad diet hype machines have left us bleary eyed, and, somehow we've forgotten the simplest way to lose weight and stay healthy. It might bring back painful childhood memories, but kids, "Eat your vegetables!" It's true, if blogging on DiseaseProof has taught me anything,...
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Posted Good Calories, Bad Calories to Diet Blog
In the recently published book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease, Gary Taubes challenges our dietary beliefs, often accepted as true, by approaching the published research from the perspective of a skeptic. Taubes finds much of what we think lacks support from findings from data published throughout the last century....
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Posted 6 Quick Ways to Eat Healthier at Work to Diet Blog
Are your ambitious resolutions overwhelming you? Do you have no idea where to begin? Grab a sheet of paper and jot down three changes you’re going to make this week to improve your eating and exercising habits whilst at work. If you’re stuck, here’s some to pick from. They won’t take more than ten minutes each – so no excuses!...
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Posted Is Your Bodybuilding Diet Plain Stupid? to Diet Blog
If you are a bodybuilder and you just read the title of this article you will no doubt start to feel your temperature rise. Your grip on the mouse might start to tighten and your knuckles might even start to turn white! The idea that your precious diet is "plain stupid" really just makes you mad....
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Posted 10 To-Do's For Making Your 2008 Comeback to Diet Blog
Successful weight loss and physical transformation requires a major mental effort. John A. Sarkett (author of the book "Extraordinary Comebacks") offers these succinct tips for making your New Year's resolution stick....
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Posted Why Do Healthy Athletes Die of Heart Attacks? to Diet Blog
Why does it seem that so many healthy athletes suddenly die of a heart attacks - while their overweight peers outlive them? Or is it a case of complete anecdotal blindness? A saying in the news business goes,” If it bleeds, it leads!” As a private pilot, I’m very familiar with the bold headline of a small plane crash,...
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Posted How To: Build a Strong Support Network to Diet Blog
Much of what we do in life, we do with the help and support of those around us, but do you 'go-it-alone' when trying to lose weight? Lots of people do, but think about it, launching a new weight loss program can be a life-changing event. Generally speaking, we normally involve others in the major events of our life, and...
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Posted Are There Ethics in Food Styling? to Diet Blog
The following is a guest article by Adele Hagan, a professional food stylist from Canada We've all heard the urban legends about food styling: mashed potatoes are used instead of ice cream, spray lacquer is used to shine food up, and practically everything is painted with food colouring. But are the stories true? And even if they are, is...
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Posted 10 Ways to Treat Diabetes With Diet to Diet Blog
The following is a guest article by Amy Tenderich, MA, author of www.diabetesmine.com and co-author of ‘Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes’, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Diet Blog authors. You probably know by now that there’s no such thing as an official "diabetes diet." In fact, there is no such thing as a food that a...
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Posted Dark Meat vs White Meat: What's the Difference? to Diet Blog
Misinformation, half truths, and misleading data abound both online, off-line, and sadly often from experts' mouths. I always thought white verses dark or red meat was sort of a strange beast, and one where a few ivory-tower experts were able to confuse a nation. The primary reason dark meat has been labeled bad - besides a large contingency of political...
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Posted The Obesity Myth: Is Overweight Healthy? to Diet Blog
The Obesity Myth challenges widely held beliefs regarding healthy weight. Written by Paul Campos, a Columbia Law professor and newspaper columnist, this book takes on the diet industry, respected medical journals and even the US Surgeon General....
