Diet Articles :

Exercise: The Most Hated Pastime?
Only 38% of Britons would be motivated to do more exercise if their life depended on it. Ironically, our lives may well depend on it. The British Heart Foundation claims that someone dies every 15 minutes as a direct result of physical inactivity.So wha...

Top 10 Low Calorie Breakfast Cereals
Food review site Iateapie.net has compiled a list of the lowest calorie breakfast cereals. Here they are:...

Exercise Pill: Would You Still Work Out?
Don't get excited, scientists haven't invented one yet. But how many times have you heard that if they could put exercise in a pill it would be a miracle drug because of all incredible health benefits exercise provides?It's an interesting mental exercis...

The Weight Loss Cure: Sued by the FTC
It's rare to see an author targeted by the Federal Trade Commission . Unless his name happens to be Kevin Trudeau.Trudeau's book "The Weight Loss Cure" has been misrepresented in a number of infomercials.Trudeau claims that the weight loss plan outlined...

Cheat to Lose Diet
The Cheat To Lose Diet is a new book from Body-for-Life Grand Champion Joel Marion.Body-for-Life (started around 1996) in many ways marked a change in traditional dieting principles. It advocated plenty of aerobic and strength training, along with frequ...

What Does a Healthy Diet Consist Of?
A survey undertaken by the British Food Standards Agency highlights how confused consumers are when it comes to a "healthy" diet.That's because of the constant debate over exactly what constitutes healthy.Of note:73% recognized importance of eating lots...

A Reason to Avoid Chinese Buffets
Garlic preparation at the Great China Buffet, Rockland County, NY.The health department does not consider a person's shoe or boot a proper instrument to use in food preparation, senior public health sanitarian John Stoughton said. ( via CNN )...

The Robot Weight Loss Coach
Researchers at MIT have created a robot who acts as a weight loss coach. The robot (called "Autom") was demonstrated at a recent expo.The coach offers feedback on recent behavior and makes recommendations for near-term behavior. The feedback is based o...

5 Reasons Why Free Weights and Bodyweight Exercises Are Best
Arthur Jones, inventor of Nautilus fitness equipment passed away recently at the age of 80. Arthur Jones was the founder of modern-day exercise; he had an incredible ability to create the interface between man and machine by incorporating biomechanics i...

In-Your-Face Diet Incentives
A company called "BellyAcres" has a selection of digital diet incentives - things that you stare at each day - that challenge you to stay on the wagon....

Guide to Exercise: Do You Really Need to Break a Sweat?
Health experts tend to agree that to be healthy, you need to exercise. But as soon as the questions get more specific, the experts get a lot more quarrelsome. One of the biggest debates: do you really have to do vigorous, sweaty, aerobic exercise for go...

Raw For 30 Days: Can Diabetes Be Cured?
Raw for 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with diabetes who switch to a diet consisting entirely of vegan, organic, live, raw foods in order to reverse diabetes naturally.It's almost an inverse "Supersize Me" if yo...

Should We Ban Fast Food Restaurants?
Los Angeles officials are considering implementing a 2 year ban on new fast food outlets in the south of the district."The people don't want them [fast food outlets], but when they don't have any other options, they may gravitate to what's there,"The LA...

How to Lose Weight By Quitting Your Job
Stress in the workplace significantly increases the risk of obesity. Could it be time to find another job?...

Why Do Obese Children Have Increased Iron Deficiency?
A new study has found a connection between obesity in preschoolers and a greater risk for iron deficiency. Researchers analyzed blood samples from 960 toddlers and found that “20 percent of obese toddlers have iron deficiency, compared to 7 percent of...

Calorie Counts To Your Mobile Phone?
Two new services allow nutrition information to be accessed from your mobile phone....

Food Additives Can Affect Children's Behavior
A carefully controlled study (funded by the British Food Standards Agency) has found that food colorings and preservatives affect a child's ability to learn and concentrate."A mix of additives commonly found in children's foods increases the mean level ...

How to Keep a Food Diary, and Why
Many nutritional experts agree that keeping a food diary is critical to weight loss success. A food diary creates a conscious awareness of food intake and eating patterns. After keeping a diary many people are often surprised at how that "occasional" bi...

11 Step Guide for Healthier Nations
With the health of westernized cultures in tailspin, it is clear that we need to take drastic steps to reverse this trend. This will take a collaborative effort between government, media, medical establishments, educational institutions, big food as wel...

The High Protein Chocolate Bar
There is a strange mythology out there in ad-land. One of these myths is that anything with "extra" protein in it makes you strong, fast, and an all round superfly-guy (or gal).Oh Henry! Pro chocolate bars fit the role quite nicely.Oh Henry! are a brand...

Subway Diners Eat More Calories?
Researchers Brian Wansink and Pierre Chandon have shown that people routinely underestimate the amount of calories consumed when eating at Subway.They call it the "Biasing Health Halos of Fast Food Restaurant Health Claims".It seems we believe the low-c...

Dieting Leads to Smoking?
Research into the dieting habits of adolescents revealed that "dieting was a significant predictor of initiation of regular smoking among females." The same effect was not found in males....

Women: Tips for a Perfect Figure
Very few of us women seem to feel completely happy with our bodies. Despite all the helpful pep talks we get about how "every woman is beautiful in her own way," we know, deep down, that it isn't really true. Right? There really are "attractive" and "un...

Men Avoided Me: I Was Too Fat
"I just love to dance - always did. But it got so the men simply would not ask me. I could see them looking my way and shrugging their shoulders. It was heartbreaking."So goes a newspaper advertisement from the 1930s. What was the answer to the heartbre...

What Your ZIP Code Says About Your Weight
Forget the BMI (Body Mass Index), try your postal code instead. Researchers from the University of Washington have found a pronounced correlation between a persons address ZIP code and their weight.Closer analysis shows the issue is more about demograph...

5 Reasons Why We Overeat
NYC Food blog Blogsoop digs into some of the reasons why we overeat....

Antioxidants: Effective or Not?
The last 15 years of research have been unkind to this once-promising theory of antioxidant vitamins (C, E, Beta-carotene) and chronic disease. The latest dagger in this hypothesis was released in the August 13th issue of the Archives of Internal Medici...

100 Calorie Packs: Double the Price
100 Calorie packs are great for portion control - but the excessive price of these packs is not so great.The Center for Science in the Public Interest has compared the costs of 100 Calorie packs against the bigger portions and found price increases of o...

KFC: Does the Smell Make You Eat More?
There is a local KFC outlet that I often drive past. There is no escaping the powerful wafting aromas that seem to find their way into my car.I've often joked that maybe KFC have some very large extractor fans rigged in such a way as to maximize that di...

Breakfast Cereal: Which One Do You Choose?
When it comes time for me to peruse the cereal isle, I often begin to tremble from so much sugar stimulus. All of the colorful boxes dance in the isles before me, taunting me with their sugary goodness. Although there are plenty of breakfast cereals, wh...