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…

How to Avoid Eating Too Much During the Holidays

Did you know that eating just one extra cookie every day during the holiday season could cause you to gain one pound? That may not sound like much, but 10 years from now you would weigh ten pounds more than you do right now — that is, if you keep the rest of…

Weekend Diet Traps

After working hard all week, you are ready for some rest and relaxation — and that mindset seems to also extend to your diet. You start with cocktails and greasy appetizers Friday night with friends. On Saturday, you go grazing through the food court while shopping at the mall, then go out for a big dinner that…

How to Follow a Low-Calorie Diet

Low-calorie or restricted-calorie diets may help to increase your longevity – at least they seem to increase the lifespan of many lab creatures. But what exactly is a low-calorie diet? Since every person is naturally of a different size and shape, it can be difficult to say what exactly what that is, however since the average…

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…

Top 10 Foods That Are Good For Both Low-Fat and Low-Carb Diets

A lot of people use popular diets to lose weight and help them live healthier lifestyles. Two very popular options are low-carb and low-fat diets. All though these diets seem to be at odds with each other, they do have some common ground with healthy lo- carb vegetables and low-fat meats.

Here are my Top Ten Good For You…

FDA Rejects Another Proposed Diet Pill

U.S. health officials declined to approve the experimental weight loss pill Contrave and want the company to conduct an additional study to address potential heart safety concerns.

This was the third time since last year the Food and Drug Administration rejected a proposed diet pill.

The announcement sent shares of the company plunging nearly 75 percent in pre-market trading.

The FDA’s request…

Excess Weight Shortens Lifespan

Being overweight or obese may take years off your life, even if you don’t have heart disease or cancer, according to a new study of nearly 1.5 million people.

It might seem obvious that carrying too much weight can pose health risks and contribute to an earlier death. In recent years, however, some studies have suggested that being overweight…