Thursday, February 23, 2012

High-Protein Diets for Weight Loss: Are They Healthy?

High-Protein Diets for Weight Loss: Are They Healthy?
U.S. News & World Report
By Angela Haupt "High-protein diet"—burgers, steaks, chops, and more burgers, steaks, and chops. Right? Wrong. Few diets, even those like Atkins that portray themselves as a carnivore's delight, dish out more than about a quarter of their daily ...

6 Practical Weight Loss Tricks
becomegorgeous.com
It can be a real challenge to reduce food intake and stick to the strict rules of faddiets. Experiment with the following 6 practical weight loss tricks to enjoy the slimming process and loads of delicious meals. It is hard to stick to your dietplan ...

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Flexitarian diet helps with health
KSN-TV
WASHINGTON, DC (NBC) – So you're trying to get healthy and you know you should be eating less meat, but you may not be ready to go "cold turkey" on that steak and become a full-fledged vegetarian. For 44-year-old Ray Heflin, a meal wasn't a meal, ...

Kardashians' Diet Drugs Under Attack
ABC News (blog)
Kim and Khloe Kardashian may have gotten themselves into legal hot water with their promotion of the diet drug QuickTrim. According to the New York Post, the New York City law firm Bursor & Fisher has filed a class-action against QuickTrim's ...

Weight Loss Wednesday: Paleo Diet, AKA Caveman Diet
WBXH
By Rick Portier - email Bethany France prepares a healthy meal to help her stay on track with her Paleo Diet plan. Bethany wasn't always in such great shape. There was a time when she had very little energy. This is Bethany France before she started ...

FDA to review safety of caffeine product
CNN
AeroShots fall under the FDA regulations for "dietary supplements." Those products include vitamin C pills at the drug store, some weight loss products and certain energy drinks. The company making them is responsible "for determining that the dietary ...

At Qnexa hearing, public commenters are split on the drug's value
Los Angeles Times
Qnexa, an investigational drug to promote weight loss, has divided public healthadvocates, based on comments made Wednesday at a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee hearing. The advisory committee will vote later Wednesday in Silver Spring ...

Los Angeles Times

Report: Gluten-free diets not always a good idea
Fox News
However, more people are adopting a gluten-free lifestyle, hoping to lose weight, boost energy or fix medical conditions like headaches and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. About 18 million Americans suffer from 'nonceliac gluten sensitivity,' ...

New Weight Loss Pill Gets Second Look from FDA, Stirring Old Fears
PBS NewsHour
According to Dr. Howard Eisenson, director of the Duke Diet and Fitness Center, much of the excitement over Xenical boiled away after its drawbacks became more apparent in the early 2000s. "The benefits are nothing more than modest, ...

PBS NewsHour

Diet Detective: Do you have to love yourself to lose weight?
Mason City Globe Gazette
Try Not to Tie Your Self-worth to Your Diet: Focus on eating healthfully and setting realistic goals. Also, make sure that self-esteem doesn't lead you astray. If you only pursue quick-fix diets or easy weight loss you won't learn to create long-term ...

The Hypothyroidism Diet (for everybody)
LifeGoesStrong
But truly, this diet and lifestyle advice would help just about anybody over 40, because even with healthy thyroids most of us start to face health issues as we age—like slower metabolism, sluggish digestion, decreased energy—that this book addresses.

LifeGoesStrong

FDA to Review Caffeine Inhalant Amid Health Concerns
Medical Daily
FDA considers "dietary supplements" to be products like vitamin C pills at the drug store, some weight loss products and certain energy drinks. The company makingdietary supplements is responsible "for determining that the dietary supplements it ...

Medical Daily

The Social Network Diet: A Little Help From Your Friends
Huffington Post (blog)
There she found an environment more conducive to physical activity and good nutrition, as well as a network of friends with an active, healthy lifestyle. A little over a year later, she had lost 53 pounds, was walking regularly with her new friends, ...

HEALTH: Reducing your risk of heart disease and stroke
North County Times
Genetics, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and lifestyle factors such as smoking, unhealthy diet, and lack of exercise can contribute to heart disease. Stroke is a brain attack that occurs when blood flow to the brain becomes blocked.

Eat cake or cookies with breakfast to lose weight, study suggests
CBS News
(CBS) Good news, dessert lovers: A new study suggests adding ice cream, cake, chocolate or cookies to your breakfast might actually help people lose weight. For the study - published in the Mar. 10 issue of Steroids - Israeli researchers took 193 obese ...

Family + Friends + Food + Fitness: Heart-Healthy Habits Add Up
MarketWatch (press release)
According to physicians of the Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, protecting your heart boils down to four fundamentals: family, food, fitness and friends. Discussing healthhistory with family members may be just as priceless as a prized ...

Can hCG Drops Help Users Lose Weight by Spring?
Albany Times Union
HCG's effectiveness as a fat burner has been thoroughly documented, but can it stimulate fastweight loss by spring? With the spring season just around the corner, the last few days have brought an inflow of comments and emails from visitors wanting to ...

Overweight Americans risk kidney damage with weight loss
Renal Business Today
CLEVELAND—Overweight Americans with chronic kidney disease trying to lose weight may be causing further kidney damage by taking diet pills and choosing improper diets, according to a study by Cleveland Clinic researchers published online in the ...

Does Drinking Diet Soda Lead to Heart Attacks and Strokes?
LifeGoesStrong
Over the years, I have developed something of a diet soda addiction. Even if I am drinking the diet soda with something unhealthy, I figure at least I am not adding extra calories with sugary soda. But new research suggests that I may be fooling myself ...

LifeGoesStrong

obesity drugs fight for FDA approval
San Jose Mercury News
By Steve Johnson A trio of California companies are competing to have their obesity drugs become the first federally approved weight-loss medication in 13 years, with a pill made by Vivus of Mountain View due to be reviewed by a US Food and Drug ...

BEEF: Research: Lean beef good for heart health
Rapid City Journal
Choosing to live a healthy lifestyle - including diet, nutrition and exercise - all help combat heart disease. According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular diseases, including stroke, are the No. 1 cause of death in the United States.

Diet pills overtake gym memberships in web searches
STLtoday.com
It has also seen a 21 percent increase in searches for cellulite creams and a slow decline in searches for fitness equipment. First, this is data from one website, so it's not exactly scientific. It's possible that they're known for offering more deals ...

5 reasons to stop eating out
Fox News
You'll lose weight. If you eat out, take out, or rely on fast food, those extra calories and fat in yourdiet can add up. Prepackaged foods from the grocery store are also a diet trap because the portion in the box isn't necessarily the portion you ...

What to expect after weight loss surgery
Times of India
Do note that even though the weight was surgically removed, you now need to focus on certainlifestyle changes, right from your dietary to exercise routine, and going for follow-up surgeries to control the excess skin and fat. Today, with expert inputs ...

Diary of a Diabetic Chef: Retooled diet of healthy foods is delicious surprise
OregonLive.com
He will keep a diary of his efforts to help improve his condition with diet and exercise. In last week's column, I dismissed the vegan diet suggested by my naturopath. In fact, I rejected any regimented diet in favor of a basic change in the way I look ...

OregonLive.com

A Proactive Market for Targeted Health and Wellness Foods
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The risk of developing diet-related chronic diseases increases with age, so the graying of the US population is a key factor in this market. Escalating healthcare costs that prompt consumers to seek alternative ways of managing their health also draw ...

Vivus asks US experts to back its obesity drug
Chicago Tribune
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Proponents of a new obesity medication from Vivus Inc told US reviewers on Wednesday that the drug's health benefits exceed heart and birth defect risks. A panel of outside experts to the Food and Drug Administration ...

Pamela Anderson & Her Vegan Diet Secrets!!
BoldSky
Celebrities and their weight loss diets always make news. Today, we shall talk about that Hollywood celeb who became an eye candy of men worldwide. This celeb is most of the time imagined wearing a red bikini. Her character in Baywatch is unforgettable ...

BoldSky

Men's Health – Blood Pressure and Your Diet
Newsolio (blog)
And to make matters worse, I make my living writing about health — if anyone should know the consequences of Jon's lifestyle it's me. But life has a way of settling into a groove, and old habits die hard. I was jolted into reality by the results of a ...

Newsolio (blog)

Researchers Say Gluten-Free Is A Waste Of Money; Here's Why They're Wrong
BlissTree
by Briana Rognlin | Leave a comment | Share a Tip Gluten-free diets have rapidly gained popularity in health conscious circles, so much so that many believe that gluten “sensitivity” or “intolerance” is just the latest diet fad—a weight loss method...

BlissTree

These diets work! You've heard about them and read about them
Inquirer.net
The diet that did it: Dr. Mike Moreno's The 17-Day Diet, an eating plan involving four cycles of 17 days each that mix up eating habits, thereby tricking the body into burning calories before it can get used to a particular routine.

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A Daily Taste of the Transformassacre Diet - Fitness - eWallstreeter
A Daily Taste of the Transformassacre Diet. From: Men's Fitness - Sports, Fitness, Health, Nutrition, Style and Sex - 1:37pm - February 22, 2012. The meals that fuel Charlie through a typical week of the Transformassacre. 9:45 AM Top round ...
eWallstreeter

How To Produce Your Vegan Diet Super Healthy | CenturyPrints
By admin
The vegan diet is recognize by 1000s of doctors and goverment health departments as one of one of the most healthiest diets and certainly one of the leadin.
CenturyPrints

Guacamole With Radish and Oranges | Paleo Diet Lifestyle
A twist on the traditional guacamole with the addition of oranges and radish. A great tasting and simple to prepare Paleo dip.
paleodietlifestyle.com/guacamole-radish-oranges/

Caveman Diet Living-Living the Paleo Diet Lifestyle
Resources needed to live the caveman diet lifestyle including free recipes and cookbooks, meal plans, approved food lists, shopping guide, and advice for ...
cavemandietliving.com/

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