Cabbage Soup Diet
If eating a bottomless bowl of cabbage soup, along with a few other low-calorie foods, for a solid week appeals to you, the Cabbage Soup Diet is sure to lead to quick weight loss. However, since the food choices are so limited and the calories so low, boredom — and inadequate nutrition — are inevitable. Versions of this very restrictive diet have been buzzing through fax machines and circulating... Read more
Texting Food Diaries Helps Kids Stick With Diets
Experts hope that letting kids have their fingers do the texting will increase compliance with the food diaries that are such a critical part of successful dieting. As a first proof that such a method might work, a new University of North Carolina study shows that kids aged 5 to 13 are almost twice as likely to text daily records of their food intake, exercise and screen time as those using the old-fashioned... Read more
Cookie Diet
Being hungry and craving sweets are two of the main reasons people fall off their diets. But what if eating cookies and not being hungry was part of your diet plan? The Cookie Diet uses cookies to entice dieters into easy weight loss. After all, what could be more appealing than losing weight while indulging in one of our favorite treats? But these are not your grandmother’s cookies. Instead they’re... Read more
Flat Belly Diet
It sounds like a dream come true: Eat certain foods and banish belly fat forever. The Flat Belly Diet promises a flat belly and weight loss of up to 15 pounds in 32 days. “A flat belly is about food & attitude … not a single crunch required,” it boasts on its cover. Written in the first person by Liz Vaccariello, editor in chief of Prevention, along with Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD,... Read more
LA Weight Loss Diet
Designed to appeal to dieters who are attracted to the glamour of Hollywood, flashy commercials, and the promise of fast and easy weight loss, the LA Weight Loss Centers diet is a center-based plan offering personalized plans and counseling. The diet consists of supermarket foods as well as the company’s exclusive brand of nutritional supplements, bars, juices, and snacks. Menu plans, tips, recipes,... Read more
The NutriSystem Diet
The NutriSystem diet is the ultimate in convenience. Dieters who don’t want to think about portion sizes, planning, shopping for or cooking meals will love the NutriSystem diet plan. You simply make your food selections and then get a month’s worth of meals delivered to your door in microwave-ready pouches. Overall, the diet is healthy. The meals are low in sodium, saturated and trans fats,... Read more
High-Fat Diet While Pregnant May Produce Obese Kids
Eating a high-fat diet during pregnancy causes permanent changes in the fetal brain that can result in overeating and obesity early in life, according to a study with rats. The researchers from Rockefeller University in New York City said their finding is an important advance in understanding mechanisms of fetal programming. It also sheds light on the production of new brain cells, helping to explain... Read more
The Ornish Diet
Unlike other diet books that make big promises, Eat More, Weigh Less, by Dean Ornish, MD, soft-pedals the health claims for this diet for the masses, adapted from his regimen to reverse heart disease. Ornish is well known in the medical community because of his success in reversing blockages to the heart, once thought impossible without surgery or drugs. Unlike other books that are full of scientific-sounding... Read more
The Personality Type Diet
The Personality Type Diet is a diet based on sensible eating and exercise. So what’s new? Author Robert F. Kushner, MD, teaches medicine at Northwestern University and is director of the Wellness Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. After seeing a lot of people who wanted — and needed — to lose weight, Kushner realized there’s no one-size-fits-all diet. The Personality... Read more
The South Beach Diet
They may seem similar, but the South Beach diet is more than just a heart-friendly version of the Atkins diet. All the same, they have a lot in common. Both South Beach and Atkins diets are the creation of medical doctors. The father of the South Beach diet is cardiologist Arthur Agatston, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Cardiac Prevention Center in Miami Beach, Fla. Both the South Beach and Atkins... Read more