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
Saturated Fats Linked to Cancer of Small Intestine
Eating foods high in saturated fats — such as red and processed meats — may be a risk factor for cancer of the small intestine. That’s the conclusion of a U.S. National Cancer Institute study that included half a million men and women who provided information about their eating habits over eight years. Previous research had identified a link between red and processed meats and cancer... 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
FDA to detain food shipments from China
Federal health officials Thursday slapped a sweeping detention order on dozens of imported foods from China, from snacks and drinks to chocolates and candies. It’s unusual for the Food and Drug Administration to put such a broad hold on goods from an entire country, not just a few rogue manufacturers. The agency said the action was needed as a precaution to keep out foods contaminated with the... 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
Caffeine and Pregnancy
Watching what you eat and drink while you’re pregnant is important for the health of you and your baby. Caffeine is a stimulant. When you consume it, it is delivered across the placenta to your baby, whose metabolism can’t process the stimulant like an adult’s metabolism. The American Pregnancy Association says the best thing you can do is to consume as little caffeine as possible.... Read more
FDA staff cite abuse concern with Alpharma drug
Alpharma Inc’s powerful painkiller Embeda may not thwart drug abusers despite design features aimed at curbing misuse, U.S. regulatory staff said in documents released on Wednesday. The drugmaker tested the effects of the design features only when the pill was misused orally, but addicts tend to crush such morphine-based drugs and then inject them, U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff said. “It... 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
The 3-Hour Diet
If you want a diet that includes Reese’s peanut butter cups and has no “bad” foods, the three-hour diet is the plan for you. Jorge Cruise, fitness journalist and author of The 3-Hour Diet: How Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat and Timing Makes You Thin, believes so strongly in his plan that he actually encourages readers to enjoy candy. Daily. But the true keys to Cruise’s diet —... Read more