The DASH Diet

The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension or DASH diet was developed specifically to help people lower high blood pressure, also called hypertension. The food options available on the DASH diet closely mirror the eating plan recommended in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Pyramid, with the focus on fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy, whole grains, poultry, fish, and…

The Cookie Diet

The Cookie Diet, created by Stanford Siegal, MD, in 1975, is a low-calorie diet designed to help people lose weight while eating specially prepared cookies. Today, there are other versions of the Cookie Diet, such as the Hollywood Cookie Diet and the Soypal Cookie Diet, but none have been around as long as the original.

The Cookie Diet: Meal…

The Cheater’s Diet

Paul Rivas, MD, an internist and weight-loss specialist, created the Cheater’s Diet on the premise that other diets often fail because people get bored and cannot follow what may be excessive restrictions. The Cheater’s Diet makes “sinful” high-calorie, high-fat foods a part of the meal plan to eliminate deprivation. Doing so, according to the Cheater’s Diet, will make…

The Cabbage Soup Diet

Of the many diets that have appeared and disappeared over the years, the cabbage soup diet is one that has surged and ebbed in popularity several times over the past few decades, at least since the 1950s.

Cabbage Soup Diet: How Does It Work?

“The cabbage soup diet has been around in various forms for years,” says Marisa Moore,…

The Body for Life Diet

The Body for Life diet is an exercise and nutrition program created by Bill Phillips, founder of EAS, a performance-nutrition company, and author of Body for Life, a bestselling book about the program.

Body for Life Diet: What Is It?

The Body for Life diet is a 12-week nutrition and exercise program. The dietary component of the program…

The Biggest Loser Diet

The TV sensation The Biggest Loser, featuring obese contestants on a quest to lose weight, has prompted a book, The Biggest Loser Diet, plus a paid membership diet club online. Based on a low-calorie diet with reduced carbohydrates, the plan stresses exercise and further calorie-cutting as you progress.

The Biggest Loser Diet: What Is It?

The “home game” version…

The Best Life Diet

The Best Life Diet: What Is It?

The goal of the Best Life Diet is to get you to make serious changes in the way you (over)eat and develop a lifelong plan to lose excess pounds and maintain your new weight. The main idea is that if you can permanently revamp your approach to healthy eating and exercise,…

Can the Dukan Diet Do It?

No doubt timed to coincide with the collective angst about the upcoming swimsuit season, a best-selling book detailing a trendy new diet made famous by the French is due out in the United States later this month.

Already, The Dukan Diet has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide, according to the Web site of Random House, which is…

The Baby Food Diet

Who hasn’t tasted baby food once or twice? But have you ever thought about eating it at every meal? Proponents of a fad diet called the Baby Food Diet propose making baby food a diet staple for weight control, especially to feed cravings. It seems to have attracted Hollywood: stars like Jennifer Aniston have reportedly found success with…

The Atkins Diet

The new Atkins Diet is not your father’s Atkins — the New Atkins Diet Revolution, created in 2002, is a streamlined version of the original diet, and not an all-the-meat-and-fat-you-can-eat fest.

The Atkins Diet is a restricted carbohydrate plan that emphasizes protein and fats, with a minimum of carbs during its initial phase. Select carbs are added back to…

Mediterranean Diet Reduces Risk of Metabolic Syndrome

The Mediterranean diet, long known to be heart-healthy, also reduces the risk of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors that boost the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes, according to a new review.

Researchers from Greece and Italy reviewed the results of 50 published studies with a total of more than 500,000 participants as part of a…