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…

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…

Weight Loss Helps Incontinence

If you’re among the millions of women who suffer from urinary incontinence, losing weight might just ease your symptoms, a new study suggests.

Published in the Jan. 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the study found that when women lost about 8 percent of their body weight — an average of 17 pounds for this…

Weight Loss Diets

With over 50 percent of the population of the United States and other industrialized countries being either overweight  or obese, a great number of people want to lose weight. However, weight loss is not easy—and not often successful.

Weight gain is a result of consumed energy in the form of high-calorie foods eaten in excess of the body’s…