Diet Articles :

Recipe: Soaked or Bircher Muesli
Given that most ready-to-eat breakfast cereals tend to be high in added sugars, what alternatives are there?Here is a great recipe for muesli (sometimes called Bircher Muesli). This version is from English chef Jamie Oliver. He calls it "Pukkola Muesli"...

Anti-Eating Face Mask
Patent #4344424 : Anti-eating Face MaskFiled: March 27, 1980."[the] object of this invention is to provide a new and novel mask which is worn on the head of a user to prevent the consumption of food by the user and therefore an attendant weight problem...

Think You Are Avoiding Trans Fats? Think Again
No one can debate that trans fats should be eliminated from the diet. Research has found that trans fats have been linked to multiple health issues including elevated coronary heart disease risk and lowering HDL levels, higher abdominal fat levels and e...

How to Stay on the Wagon: For Good
We are generally very adept at starting exercise and programs and dietary regimes... and we pretty much suck at sticking to it. One of the most formidable reasons for this is the failure to permanently ingrain our newfound healthy habits into our psyche...

The Diet Fork
Is your fork getting you down? Maybe you need the Diet Fork. "The characteristics of the Diet Fork allow dieters to scoop less food during meals." Is this for real?...

Goji, Noni, Mangosteen and Acai: Don't Believe the Hype
A few weeks ago my significant other came home clutching a bottle of Açai (ah-sigh-ee) Juice. An involuntary groan escaped my lips. A well-meaning marketer had foisted the 'superjuice' bottle upon her - claiming it would help with a multitude of health...

The Obesity Myth: Is Overweight Healthy?
The Obesity Myth challenges widely held beliefs regarding healthy weight. Written by Paul Campos, a Columbia Law professor and newspaper columnist, this book takes on the diet industry, respected medical journals and even the US Surgeon General. Campos...

Power-Walking: 5 Ways to Make it Work For You
Call it Race-Walking or Speed-Walking or Power-Walking: whatever form you choose, it can be a great alternative to running - particularly for those whose joints can no longer take the pounding running demands. Yet hardly anyone seems to take advantage o...

The Obesity Virus
A group of researchers are claiming that a virus may be a cause of obesity. "lab tests showed that exposure to adenovirus-36 (Ad-36), which causes respiratory and eye infections, also causes stem cells to develop into fat cells."The research team has be...

Diet Foods: Not for Kids
In the confusing world of nutrition - things are never what they seem. Two new pieces of research show how "diet" foods may not be particularly helpful for children.Low-fat diets are unnecessary for children.Low-calorie sweets may actually spur overeati...

Tracking Your Food Intake: On-line Resources
When it comes to portion control, there are several tools - both on-line and off-line - at your disposal. These range from color-coded or specially marked plates to the software packages designed to track your daily food consumption and make appropriate...

Getting Paid to Lose Weight
Men living in the northwestern Italian town of Varallo will receive 50 euros ($70) for losing 4 kg (9 pounds) in a month. Women will get the same amount for shedding 3 kg (7 pounds). If they can keep the weight off for 5 months, they will get another 20...

Overweight: A New Reason To Skip School
A study of over a thousand children demonstrated that overweight children were absent 20% more than normal weight children. What was interesting about the study is that the absenteeism was not related to “being sick.” According to researcher, Andrew...

The MediterrAsian Diet
MediterrAsian is a site that has been around since 2004. It showcases the best aspects of both a Mediterranean style of eating along with traditional Asian dietary habits.Ric Watson and Trudy Thelander (who created the site) recently published a book ...

How to Eat Right AND Maintain a Social Life
You've made a choice to eat good foods, but then every Friday you meet friends for Pizza and Beer. What do you do?Or maybe your mother, husband, wife, or whomever - loves to bring you home your favorite calorific treats - how do you stay the course with...

What is a Food Stylist?
If you own a diet book, it probably contains some beautiful pictures to go with all those "mouthwatering recipes". Ads, cookbook covers, and fast food menus also display lovingly crafted food creations. They are the work of a food stylist.A Food Stylist...

21 Pounds in 21 Days: Martha's Vineyard Diet Detox
The title alone is enough to make even the most casual of skeptics cringe. It would appear the title is also enough to send people flocking in droves to their local bookstores (21 days debuted at #3 on the NY Times Bestseller list). Let’s take a look...

What Gives You Character?
A long time ago, there was a young girl with a gap between her front teeth. This girl absolutely, positively, did not like this gap. Because she did not like the gap between her teeth, she decided to try not to smile. This attempt ended almost immediate...

The Treadmill Bike
Like the treadmill but want to do it out in the fresh air? Forget walking... that's so last year.Get a treadmill on wheels instead. You could get one to go with your treadmill desk .Here are two "interesting" inventions. The Treadmill Bike from Bicycle ...

Why Are Americans Getting Shorter?
Recently a fascinating study appeared in the Social Science Quarterly. The results showed that:Tallest in the world between colonial times and the middle of the 20th century, Americans by the 21st century are much more affluent but have become shorter (...

Snack Factor Diet
The Snack Factor Diet is written by New York-based nutritionist Keri Glassman. Glassman's book promotes the concept of using snacking as a weight loss tool. Glassman also has her own line of, ummm, well... snack bars .To be honest, it's a bit of a stret...

What's On Your Grocery List?
What's on your grocery list and does anyone really care? Actually, yes. Someone cares so much that they made a whole website out of it. Grocerylists.org has collected over 1600 "found" shopping lists. Each item was presumably found lying around somewher...

Should Weight Loss Cost Money?
Recently I received an email bemoaning the woes of the weight loss industry. The author refers to the number of weight loss programs around and complains:If all these people are so truly concerned about the weight of the American people, why don't some ...

What Do Your Clothes Say About You?
For most people, getting ready in the morning is done in a hurry-scurry manner.If you’re anything like me, and mornings aren't your strongest suite, it’s hard to be enthusiastic about your appearance when you’d much rather be back in bed. But, des...

Diet and Training Advice From a Male Model
Most writing about models and diet tends to be negative - focusing on skinnyness, starvation diets, and eating disorders. I must also confess that the image-obsession and vanity that goes with celebrity culture leaves me cold - so I'm reluctant to devot...

Which is Best: Yo-yo Diet or Stay Overweight?
Are you currently trying to lose fat? What if I could tell you your future?1. In the next 3 months you will lose 18 pounds.2. However, after 6 months you will gain that 18 pounds back again, plus another 2 pounds.Does that make you re-think your current...

5 Great Reasons to Try Quinoa
Everyone knows that whole grains provide a whole host of health benefits including lowering heart disease risk and helping with weight maintenance. I love to experiment with different whole grains and by far one of my favorites is Quinoa (pronounced Kee...

Binge Prevention 101
I’ll start by confessing: If I get to the point where I am really, really hungry… I just might eat a bit too much (of all the wrong things)....

17 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress
Recent research has shown that a high stress lifestyle, combined with a junk food diet results in weight gain (particularly abdominal fat). We can avoid junk food, but avoiding stress can be a lot more challenging.Here are some strategies for dealing wi...

Which Are You: Healthy Eater or Food Nazi?
Some years ago I was reading through an on-line forum. I came across one post that was brimming with hysteria. The young man was petrified. His birthday was coming up and he knew his Mom would bake him a cake - and he would feel obliged to eat a piece. ...