Diet Articles :

Bacon Mints
How to win friends and influence people: Have bacon-flavored breath. Archie McPhees have a bizarre array of novelty foods and toys. So if Bacon Mints aren't your style, then maybe try the Sigmund Freud Head Lollipops - watermelon-flavored....

Calories and Carbs and Fat, Oh My!
The age old diet conundrum: Should I cut out fats, carbs, or restrict calories? This simple and straightforward article breaks it down for you.

Developing a Healthy Relationship With Food
Nothing takes away the pleasure of food, quicker than the feeling of guilt. Guilt is the “buzz-kill” of all disobedient activity. But what if the feelings of guilt could be eliminated? What if consumption of your favorite food was no longer an act o...

Indulging in Food: A Step-by-step Guide
It seems odd to use the word "indulge" on a blog about diets. Developing a healthy relationship with food is critical if you wish to avoid falling into disordered or harmful patterns of eating.However... asking some people to simply moderate their intak...

Corsets: Because Every Woman Has a Figure Problem
The quotes from these vintage ads (from the 1940s) proclaim: “Every woman has a figure problem!”These old-fashioned ads (from Corsietere ) show great similarities to today's marketing mix. This advertising brainwashing (complete with ludicrous befor...

Does Poor Income = Poor Diet?
The British Food Standards Agency have just released their findings from a large survey of low-income households. They conclude:For many foods, the types and quantities eaten by people on low income appeared similar to those of the general population.Th...

Obesity: Personal Responsibility or Blame Food Companies?
Big food companies and fast food chains are constantly under attack from health advocates for their contribution to the growing waistlines and chronic disease of developed nations. Much of the finger pointing is justifiable, given the ubiquity, proximit...

BodiBeat: Music Player That Changes Tempo
In among the plethora of gadgets that hit the shelves every week, one or two catch my eye (or rather the press release catches my eye). BodiBeat is a portable music player from Yamaha that detects your jogging or walking speed - and alters the music sel...

Charlie Bite: A Dental Trapdoor For Overeaters
In the middle ages they had chastity belts. Now we have the " Charlie Bite " - a device inserted into the mouth that prevents the user from chewing too vigorously.The Utah dentists that offer the device claim their patients lose about 1.3 lbs per week.T...

Cooking and Recipe Videos: Hundreds of 'em
I always thought there had to be more to internet video than laughing babies , or strange people mixing Mentos with Diet Coke ... VideoJug has a nice selection of cooking/recipe videos. The recipe is displayed below the video -- along with all sorts of ...

5 Ways to Build the Gym Habit
I like the gym. It’s a fun place. I am not intimidated by the beef-cakes, and I am not too jealous of the lean, muscular women who seem to live at the gym (and we now all now the ground-rules of gym etiquette ). However, for me, it can be such a mind ...

Are Muscular Men More Attractive?
Muscles. Hot or not? UCLA professor David Frederick and colleagues have asked: Why is Muscularity Sexy? Conclusion:[...] these studies suggest that men’s physical features are related not only to women’s expressed preferences for mates but also to m...

Chelsea Clinton's Weight Loss Patch
Investigators in China are looking the marketing tactics of a company making weight loss patches. This comes at a time when food safety scares are beginning to affect Chinese exports .The sellers of the weight loss patch claim that Chelsea Clinton "lost...

Beginners: 10 Things You Shouldn't Do at the Gym
The Cranky Fitness blog has written an entertaining and informing guide for gym newbies. Here are 10 things that beginners should take note of when starting at a gym....

Negative Self-Talk: The Tight Jeans Effect
There are times in all of our lives, when we’ve had enough with our situation, our day, or our life. Our mind seems to fill with negative thoughts.The same is true about our bodies. There are days when nothing positive comes to mind (Maybe it all star...

Dieting: How Much Weight You Can Expect to Lose
A review of diet trials has shown sobering results. Out of 46 trials (that met the criteria) - the weight loss after 12 months was just 6% of start weight. As time goes on it gets worse......

Downsizing the Burger
A Japanese company has come up with a solution to obesity: a really small burger.It turns out the mini-burger is actually a cookie. The idea is good though. Maybe someone needs to alert Burger King .The snack burgers are called "Every Burger".via Sasura...

Can You Trust Internet Weight Loss Advice?
There is no denying that the internet contains it's fair share of dubious weight loss advice - but it can also be a very reliable source of information.The people in white coats have examined advice posted on weight loss forums and concluded that: Peopl...

If You Are Addicted to Cupcakes...
Then don't buy a coffee table like this. The $900 coffee table comes in metallic silver finish, red, orange or yellow. (via Neatorama)...

Which Has More Salt: Sandwich or Potato Chips?
UK lobby group CASH has compared the level of salt in sandwiches with potato chips (or crisps as they are called in the UK). Their discoveries may surprise you....

Ask the Readers: Best Weight Maintenance Tip
We have so much information about weight loss, yet so little about maintenance. So many people losing weight, yet so few maintaining.Every other week a new diet comes out touting dramatic weight loss stories - but virtually nothing about what happens af...

How Stress Gives You a Fat Gut
When I first saw this research - it seemed almost farcical: stressed out mice, eating junk food got fat. Did the mice work 60 hour weeks - stopping by the McDonald's drive-thru on the way back to the lab? Did they manage to force two cohabiting mice to ...

The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now?
I remember watching the first season of the network show, “ The Biggest Loser ” and being amazed as participants would weigh-in each week and lose 10-25 pounds a week. By the end of the show, the winner was crowned and his name was Ryan Benson. In o...

Get Motivated: Inspiring Transformations
As sources of inspiration, these guys and gals are hard to beat. They've definitely turned their life around through a mix of careful eating and a healthy dose of exercise.Now it's time to add your name to the list.Rob Cooper ( Former Fat Guy ) Rob has...

High Blood Pressure Not Linked to Weight?
Fascinating research (published in the Epidemiology Journal ) shows that the link between high blood pressure and BMI is a lot more tenuous that first thought.The percentage of people who were overweight, defined as a BMI of 25 or more, increased from 3...

Fit Light Yogurt: For the Larger Woman
An interesting Brazilian advertising campaign for yogurt depicts larger women in familiar poses from American movies. The message is confusing... what's your take?...

Paleolithic Diet Better Than Mediterranean Diet?
A controlled study of Type 2 diabetics shows that a "stone-age" or paleolithic diet is better at controlling symptoms than a Mediterranean diet.The main result was that the blood sugar rise in response to carbohydrate intake was markedly lower after 12 ...

Positive Body Image: Your Kids Are Listening
During my first year teaching preschool, I was asked by one of my students: “Miss Sylvia, do you think these shoes make my butt look big?”...

Lipo-Dissolve: Can Injections Really Melt Fat?
Lipo Dissolve involves injecting a cocktail of substances into subcutaneous fat deposits - in the hope of "dissolving" the fat tissue. Marketed as a safer and less invasive alternative to liposuction, proponents say lipo-dissolve is useful for treating ...

Shaq's Big Family Challenge
Giant basketballer Shaquille O'Neal has finished with doing Burger King ads, and wants to help obese kids get fit....