Diet Articles :

Bathroom Scale Art
Staring at the scales need not be boring. Art de toilette have a series of arty bathroom scales. Here are few choice ones....

Connection Between Inflammation and Weight Loss?
The following is a guest article by Monica Reinagel, M.S., author of The Inflammation Free Diet Plan, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Diet Blog authors.Chronic, "silent" inflammation is a common condition that researchers have recently ...

Constructive Eating
How do you eat constructively?...

Dark Meat vs White Meat: What's the Difference?
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 ...

Exercise: Be Wary of Compensating With Diet
Recent research compared the impact of a 12 week exercise program on overweight and obese sedentary men and women. Despite doing identical exercise regimes - the outcomes were very mixed....

Globesity: Should We Start Worrying?
The September 2007 issue of Scientific American was a special on Diet, Health and Food Supply. It contains a multitude of insightful pieces on the most pressing food and health related issues facing our world today. One such article is entitled “The W...

Hardee's Breakfast Burrito
Another testament to gluttony: Hardee's presents the Country Breakfast Burrito....

How Much Caffeine in Starbucks Coffee
Starbucks is renowned for having some fairly calorie-dense drinks (think of the holiday special Pumpkin Spice Crème at 500 Calories).However, until recently, caffeine amounts have been somewhat of a mystery. Here is a handy table comparing caffeine for...

Obesity Increases Esophageal Cancer Risk
A new Australian study has found that obese people are "six times more likely to develop esophageal cancer than people with healthy weight."The researchers looked at 800 people with esophageal cancer and compared them to 1600 people who did not suffer f...

Pole Dancing Fitness: For Kids?
Pole dancing fitness has carved out a niche for itself in the past few years - becoming one of the hottest fitness trends. Recently, instructors have been offering classes to children as young as 11. To be fair, those offering classes vehemently maintai...

South Beach Diet Vending Machine
If you ever wanted proof of the commercial juggernaut that is called dieting - this is it. Kraft Foods is rolling out a vending machine stocked with South Beach Diet branded food....

Spudware: Biodegradable Cutlery
Over the next few years more and more biodegradable food packaging will become available. A number of suppliers (in the US) have begun stocking "Spudware" - a range of cutlery made from 80% vegetable starch and 20% soy or other vegetable oils.Spudware c...

The Fat Jiggling Machine
Found on eBay: A vintage exercise device that can... well, uh... I don't know. Can you figure it out?...

The Kimkins Disaster
The Kimkins phenomenon has resided primarily within the confines of low-carb communities, but is starting to make its way into more mainstream media. It is a bizarre story of the quick rise and the tremendous fall from grace of an underground diet “gu...

Why So Many Food Allergies?
It's a struggle to get my young child to eat healthy. Many times I am successful - and I congratulate myself on a another job well done.Then later I find the chewed-up spat-out morsel lying on the ground outside.At least I tried, and at least she tried ...

Dove: The Onslaught of Beauty Imagery
"Onslaught" is the follow-up video to the award-winning advertising campaign Evolution. "Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does"...

Is Stevia Safe?
Are you one of those folks who counts calories but avoids artificial sweeteners such as Splenda or Equal? If so, you may have considered switching to stevia instead. Stevia is a South American herb that is naturally hundreds of times sweeter than sugar ...

Weight Loss Drugs: Rates of Persistence Are Terrible
Weight loss from diet pills come with one fundamental requirement. To lose weight (and most likely maintain weight) you have to keep using them.A drug such Orlistat (or it's cutdown OTC version Alli) will decrease absorption of fat by the intestines. Le...

7 Tips for Including Alcohol in a Healthy Lifestyle
Alcohol consumption and fat loss has long been a controversial subject.First, the BBC dismissed the "beer belly". Now, new research contradicts this: liquor consumption in men is associated with a larger waist circumference.The research ( published in O...

Keep Slim: Eat Maltesers
From 1959 comes this classic ad: "Choose the chocolates that can help keep you slim."Maltesers (balls of honeycomb surrounded by chocolate) were popular in the UK (in the US, Hershey's Whoppers are similar).As seen in the print advertisement below - som...

How Strength Training Can Reduce Body Fat
New research appearing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that strength training can reduce body fat, and attenuate abdominal fat gain.The research applies to overweight or obese premenopausal women and was conducted over two years.So...

Kids: Raising Healthy Eaters is Counter-culture
A recent postcard on art blog PostSecret says: "My biggest fear is that if I have a daughter, she will inherit my eating disorder" (via Starling ). I will make no bones about this. Raising a child to maintain a healthy body weight AND a healthy attitude...

Chewing Gum for Weight Loss?
Wrigley is doing its level best to convince us that Gum is Good. Can you really lose weight just from chewing gum?...

7 Ways to Beat the Buffet
Buffets and other social functions can be trying when you want to eat healthy. It pays to have a strategy planned well in advance....

The Beck Diet Solution: How to Think Like a Thin Person
SharpBrains has interviewed Judith Beck, author of The Beck Diet Solution . Beck brings the principles from cognitive behavior therapy into the field of weight loss.The Beck Diet Solution is designed to be used alongside any healthy and nutritious diet...

Bizarre Dessert Award: Oreo Pizza
If you are having a chocolate craving after your pizza, then Domino's Pizza now has the answer. It is called the Oreo Dessert Pizza....

The Eat Clean Diet
The Eat-Clean Diet , by Tosca Reno, is physically beautiful… every page seems to leap up at you with an explosion of glossy pictures, colorful sidebars and pull quotes. The information is laid out in a very reader-friendly way and speaks in a basic la...

Is This Woman Plus Size?
Winner of a UK modeling show has put the catwalk modeling industry to the test. Jen Hunter (5' 11", 154 lbs) won the "Make Me a Supermodel" show in 2006 - despite being criticized for being too fat.Many people applauded her win. Last year a magazine wri...

Fruit: Don't Forget the Humble Apple
Depending on where you live, winter is either on its way in or out. Keeping up fruit consumption in winter can get tough.A frequent complaint from clients in clinic, is they don't eat fruit in winter because it's boring and the "really healthy fruit" ar...

Over-tolerant Attitude to Fatness?
Scotland's Sunday Herald has a lengthy diatribe deriding the nations "over-tolerant attitude to fatness".This ever-expanding national girth is a reflection of our over-tolerant attitude to fatness. It is a much more comfortable social experience to be f...