7 Wacky Celebrity Diets and Weight-Loss Tricks

7 Wacky Celebrity Diets and Weight-Loss Tricks
U.S. News & World Report
Warning: Most of these don't reflect widely accepted guidelines for weight loss or ahealthy lifestyle, and some are downright dangerous, even if they do provide fast results. Here are seven: Watercress Soup Diet. Elizabeth Hurley's secret to dropping...

U.S. News & World Report

Watch your diet, you multi tasking women!
The Hindu
But the modern superwoman who manages to do it all ends up neglecting her health, too busy to focus on her diet or an exercise regimen. A busy lifestyle often leads to an erratic diet and international research indicates that women who are too busy to ...

The Hindu

The dynamic duo: Diet and exercise
Boston.com (blog)
Like Batman and Robin, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- diet and exercise will forever be linked when it comes to a fit and healthy lifestyle. Trainer and fitness guru Jillian Michaels says in one of her workout DVDs that you can "eat your way ...

Finding the right diet and physical activities
Jamestown Sun
The New Year has led some prospective dieters to look for the latest in fad dieting, but EssentiaHealth's Nursing Supervisor Krystal Hovda said it's about finding the correct, healthy diet for each individual. “There's a lot of misconceptions out ...

Diet tips for a healthy breastfeeding mum
Mindful Mum (blog)
Wyoming A mums diet is important when breastfeeding. Here is some great advice on keeping both mum and baby healthy when breastfeeding. What should I be doing about my own diet? What should I be doing about my own diet? Breast milk is great.

Diet Doctor has prescription for a healthier life
This is Plymouth
AS THE loveLIFE campaign focuses on healthy eating throughout March, The Herald has launched a 'Diet Doctor' feature to show how keeping a balanced diet can be easy and affordable. Louise Pen-Collings, a registered dietitian from Elite Nutrition and ...

Choice condemns 'irresponsible' expanding diet industry
Herald Sun
Some operators in the ballooning $792 million industry seem so desperate to fatten profits they risk compromising people's health, according to medical experts. Choice's team of three shopping sleuths each visited four Sydney sites and reported back on ...

High Protein, Low-Carb Diet; Key Source to Lose Weight
TopNews United States
According to recent studies conducted by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, a diet rich in proteins is considered to be the best to stick for losing weight and if this diet contains low-carb, then the effect is going to do wonders.
 
TopNews United States

Medicine, Museums and Spoons Full of Sugar
Huffington Post (blog)
There has been considerable attention to the contributions soda -- termed by some of my publichealth colleagues "liquid candy" -- makes to the prevailing diet. While the beverage industry has argued against the inevitable conclusion, ...

Detox your diet to eliminate sugars, fats
WDIV Detroit
It's the small food choices we make every day that can add up to big health problems down the road. Eliminating saturated fat means looking for low-fat foods that contain the good but not the bad. For example, while whole-milk dairy products contain ...

The Manhattan diet
New York Post
In her new book, “The Manhattan Diet,” out March 27 (Wiley, $24.95), author Eileen Daspin sets out to uncover the tricks, rules and regimens behind some of the borough's tiniest bodies. Drawing on the secrets of her skinniest friends, Daspin reveals ...

New York Post

Kardashians face $5M diet pill lawsuit
ABC 4
"I don't believe there is a pill out there that will help you lose weight," said Dr. Todd Singleton with Lighthouse Health. Dr. Singleton claims if a person uses diet pills, they may see a difference short term, but it won't last.

Vitamin D Key to Girls' Bone Health
MedPage Today
For active girls, healthy bones may require more vitamin D than the typically recommended calcium and milk intake, researchers found in a study of stress fractures. The highest vitamin D intake cut the risk of stress fractures in half, ...

Vitamin D tied to fewer stress fractures in girls
Reuters
By Genevra Pittman | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study, girls and young women who got lots of vitamin D through their diet and supplements were half as likely to suffer a stress fracture as those who didn't get much of the vitamin.

Foods to eat in moderation
Fox News
Regarding a healthy diet, some experts believe that foods are not inherently good or bad but that moderation is the key to a healthy life. With that in mind, here are four foods that health experts say are fine to eat, as long as they are not a large ...

Diet focuses on finding your own fat burning potential
eMaxHealth
By Kathleen Blanchard RN on March 6, 2012 - 7:15am for eMaxHealth One weight loss expert says he is astounded by the suggestion of taking a dangerous weight lossdrug like Qnexa. At the same time, consideration for the drug's approval by the FDA ...

eMaxHealth

Dark Meat Can Be Heart Healthy, Study Shows
LiveScience.com
A team led by Yu Chen of the NYU Langone Medical Center tapped into the ongoing NYU Women'sHealth Study to evaluate the association between taurine levels in the blood and risk of coronary heart disease, a leading killer. The group examined blood ...

Extreme diets: Tube feeding weight-loss diet reaches the UK
Yahoo! Canada Shine On (blog)
By Lindsay MacAdam | Shine On – 8 minutes ago If you thought juice cleanses were extremeweight-loss measures, imagine getting all your nutrients through a feeding tube for ten days at a time. The European KEN (Ketogenic Enteral Nutrition) diet that's ...

The Little Book of Diet Help by Kimberly Willis
FemaleFirst.co.uk
Please can you tell our readers about your current book The Little Book Of Diet Help? A diet helper for busy people. This book is full of weight loss tips, help and inspiration. A diet guide that focuses on the mind/body link.

Kate Middleton Diet: The Weight Loss Plan Followed by the Duchess, Gisele and ...
International Business Times
17 that Kate Middleton and her mother were rumored to have followed the Dukan Diet. The Dukan Diet has been dubbed "the French Atkins" and has reportedly attracted the likes of not only Kate Middleton, but also world acclaimed supermodel Gisele ...

International Business Times

It's smart to limit calories that come from fat, especially saturated fat
Washington Post
That's happening in Denmark, where, in an attempt to improve public health, the government recently enacted a “fat tax” of about $1.50 per pound on food — such as bacon, butter, fast food and pastries — that contains more than 2.3 percent saturated ...

Oliver to help Victorians fight flab
Herald Sun
Find a delicious healthy recipe at Taste.com.au UPDATE: JAMIE Oliver is "chuffed to bits" to bring his crusade against obesity to Victoria. The celebrity chef unveiled the Ministry of Food Victoria today in a partnership with the Government.

Vitamin D Health Benefits for Young Women: Top 5 Ways to Boost the Nutrient in ...
International Business Times
By Lisa Eadicicco: Subscribe to Lisa's RSS feed A new study shows that girls and young women with large amounts of vitamin D in their diet are less likely to suffer stress fractures, according to Reuters. A stress fracture is a small crack in the bone ...

International Business Times

New food guidelines important for children at nursery
Journal Live
by Hannah Davies, The Journal ALL parents want to give their children the best start in life – and a vital part of that good start is a healthy diet. But with 66% of mothers now working full or part-time, more under-fives than ever are attending ...

Group: Soft drinks may contain carcinogen
UPI.com
WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- Chemical analyses found Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Diet Coke and DietPepsi contain high levels of a known animal carcinogen, a US food advocacy group said. Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the ...

600-plus pound man asks YouTube for diet help, becomes viral star
Fox News
A 23-year-old morbidly obese California man got the exposure he wanted when a video he posted on YouTube asking for weight-loss help went viral. Gibbs, who weighs between “600 and 700 pounds,” posted the video on March 1 – one day shy of his 23rd ...

Pauline Quirke reveals reasons for diet and weight loss
FansShare
Birds of a Feather actress Pauline Quirke has revealed the reasons behind her decision to go on a diet and lose weight. Pauline claims that she had nobody to blame but herself for being so big and after a flight to Majorca, she decided to turn her life ...

FansShare

Consumer group finds cancer-causing chemical in colas
Los Angeles Times
The average 4-MI content for samples of regular and diet Coke, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper and Whole Foods 365 cola was 138 micrograms. (Some samples of Dr. Pepper and the Whole Foods cola sample had far lower amounts of 4-MI, however.) ...

Los Angeles Times

Report Discovers Anti-Aging Foods Could Significantly Impact Cosmetic Industry
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Recent report posted at BeWellBuzz.com confirms simply adding a few simple anti-aging foods intodiet can add years to human lives and decrease the amount spent each year in Cosmetic improvements. Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) March 05, 2012 It can easily ...

Meat Is the New Tobacco
Huffington Post (blog)
It's great for weight loss. It's sexy. It's cool. The tobacco industry spent big bucks to keep these ideas in the mind of the public for as long as it could. And for many years after the lethal effects were universally known and undeniable, ...

Warning over dodgy weight-loss clinics
Adelaide Now
DODGY diet clinics are using aggressive tactics and bizarre advice to heavy customers into signing up, according to claims by consumer watchdog Choice. Some operators in the ballooning $792 million industry seem so desperate to fatten profits they risk ...

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What's your diet DNA?

What's your diet DNA?
RedEye Chicago (blog)
Years ago, McDonald might have picked up a diet book with a regimented eating plan or been put on a strict exercise schedule by a doctor. But now, experts such as Dr. Robert Kushner at Northwestern Memorial Hospital are trying to develop a new way of...

RedEye Chicago (blog) 

Diet Doc Weight Loss Now Offers Mediterranean Type Diet As Part Of Their ...
Albany Times Union
Diet Doc Weight Loss announces Mediterranean diet as part of their overall, medical weight lossprogram. Diet Doc incorporated parts of the Mediterranean diet associated with protection against small brain blood vessels according to a cohort study by ...

Tried the happiness diet, yet?
Times of India
If you smile while tucking into your favourite fare, it can also tackle your bulging waistline. A newweight-loss plan undertakes to get rid of the flab as it enhances the mood. Say hello to the Happiness Diet, that's influenced by how you feel.

Ketogenic Enteral Nutrition diet: NHS specialist recommends being fed on a ...
Daily Mail
The KEN, or Ketogenic Enteral Nutrition diet, involves eating absolutely nothing at all. Instead, for ten days at a time, a patented liquid formula made up of protein and nutrients is dripped directly into the stomach via a plastic tube that goes up ...

Daily Mail

Healthy Memphis: Diet rich in fiber, low in processed foods can hold off ...
Memphis Commercial Appeal
The doctor is likely to ask about your bowel habits, diet and current prescriptions. Your provider could check for signs of blood. A blood test is usually done. He or she might order an abdominal ultrasound, X-rays, or a CT scan.

Malaika Arora Khan's Diet Secrets!
BoldSky
She doesn't follow any particular diet but prefers eating good and healthy food! 2. To get the perfect slim figure, Malaika Arora never stopped eating! She has food at short intervals but in moderations. 3. Malaika Arora's diet secrets include lots of ...

BoldSky

Your natural partners for a healthy life
This is Leicestershire
Dieticians and exercise professionals have long argued the case of diet versus exercise for achieving a healthy body weight, but the evidence is now clearer than ever before. Since the start of the obesity epidemic in the mid-20th century, ...

Watch out, vitamin E could harm you!
Times of India
With innumerable diet digests and health studies promoting taking vitamins and nutrients on a daily basis, this comes as a shock! Japanese researchers are now saying that taking vitamin E supplements may make bones old and frail before their time.

Diet Advice From Israel: Eat Your Vegetables
The Media Line
Deciding between the Atkins Diet, Mediterranean diet or a traditional low-fat/high-carbohydratesdiet? It really doesn't make a lot of difference, says a team of Israeli nutrition experts. Your chances of losing weight with any of the three hinges on ...

Weight loss by diet shakes is temporary: experts
Pakistan Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: Health experts have expressed uncertainty regarding the effectiveness of diet shakes for weight loss. At least 15 brands of diet shakes - some promising “a new you” in a matter of weeks - are in the market in Australia, but nutritionists ...

Include strawberries in your daily diet
Times of India
We all know strawberries are delicious, but they are also nutritious, and ideally should be a part of everyone's daily diet. You'll enjoy some health advantages by eating strawberries regularly, and the best part is strawberries are one of the most ...

Kardashians named in $5 million weight-loss product lawsuit
Vancouver Sun
LOS ANGELES — Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and two of her sisters have bween slapped with a $5 million lawsuit alleging they and the makers of QuickTrim diet pills falsely touted the product's effectiveness for losing weight.

Consume Less Calories, Lose Weight
TopNews United States
Dieticians and exercise professionals have long supported their own sides and roles ofdiet and exercise to maintain a healthy body weight, but some evidences are finally out to give a clear picture upon the factors maximum affecting the body weight.

TopNews United States

Five 'healthy' types of food best avoided
UPI.com
WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- A US registered dietitian suggests some foods might soundhealthy but some so-called health foods are best avoided. Katherine Tallmadge, author of the book "Diet Simple," told The Washington Post the US Agriculture ...

Albany CrossFit Announces Its Latest Fitness Competition: A Battle of the ...
PR Web (press release)
Albany CrossFit-- part of an insurgent fitness movement that is changing the way people around the world think about diet, health and fitness -- today announced its latest competition: the co-ed "X's and Y's" event to be held March 31, 2012 as part of...

PR Web (press release)

Five "Healthy" Types of Food Best Avoided
ThirdAge
A US registered dietitian suggests some foods might sound healthy but some so-called health foods are best avoided. Katherine Tallmadge, author of the book "DietSimple," told The Washington Post the US Agriculture Department's Economic Research ...

ThirdAge

Successful dieters know what it takes
Evansville Courier & Press
Add the prediction that half of the people in America will be obese by 2030 to the fact that healthcare costs are the fastest growth line in the American budget, mix in 75 percent of our health care costs coming from obesity, and sprinkle in 300000 ...

What is the right diabetic diet for me?
Arab News
SADDAH ESHKI The diabetic diet is not a specific diet, but a set of eating guidelines designed to help diabetics manage their insulin levels and blood sugar. Different doctors recommend varying types of diabetic diets, but some aspects of the diet are ...

Arab News

10 changes in your kids' diet to help them top their exams!
India.Com Health
A child's diet is one of the most neglected aspects during their exams. It has been observed that even kids who usually eat healthy end up eating a lot of junk food and drink pots of coffee to stay awake during exam times. Plan out your kids' exam diet ...

Adventures in Food and Fitness: Exercise counters calorie-counting fears
News Sentinel
“The next time I hear someone whine, 'I wish I had her metabolism,'” said my drill sergeant of a sister, “I'm going to say, 'You can — just get up off the couch!'” Tanya Isch Caylor, a News-Sentinel copy editor, blogs about diet and fitness at ...

Vitamin E 'may be bad for bones'
BBC News
Vitamin E supplements may interfere with the process that keeps bones healthy, suggest Japanese scientists. Writing in the journal Nature Medicine, the Keio University team said mice given large doses had lower bone mass - if the same was true in ...

BBC News

Five food items that'll help you lose weight!
India.Com Health
Here are 5 food items you should incorporate in your diet to get rid of excess baggage and the obese tag. Egg whites are a valued high protein-low carbohydrate source. During any weight loss regime it is essential to consume enough protein to help you ...

Qnexa & Weight Loss
KERA News
A diet pill promising a ten percent weight loss could offer hope to a nation with an obesity rate near 35 percent. But Tammy Beaumont is concerned. In a KERA Health Checkup, the Weight Management Director for Methodist Health System talks to Sam Baker ...

Healthy lifestyle at 20, good heart health at 40: Study
HealthJockey.com
There is no doubt that a healthy way of life inclusive of diet and yoga could go a long way in improving general health. Northwestern University professionals have revealed that succumbing to a healthy lifestyle as young adults could result in better ...

HealthJockey.com

Prevent Obesity by Reducing Intake of Calories
French Tribune
Growing cases of obesity among kids have left the mums aghast as they don't know as to which weight loss program they should adopt for their younger ones who are growing and need good amount of food. Controlling intake seems to be the best way of...

French Tribune

Salt reduced
Sydney Morning Herald
A pinch of salt in cooking can enhance the flavour of your food and, in small quantities, it's essential for health. A little sodium in the diet helps maintain fluid and electrolyte balance in the body, and helps nerve-impulse transmission and muscle ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Why Is Gaining Weight So Much Easier Than Losing Weight?
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Use up more than your intake and you will lose weight. One pound of body fat represents 3500 calories. You can increase or reduce that amount – it would seem – by equal measures. But that is not necessarily so. A great number of additional factors must ...

What Is a Balanced Weight Loss Diet?
Hive Health Media (blog)
Having a balanced diet can prevent many health problems that include heart diseases and even some types of cancers. One of the benefits of taking a well-balanced diet is that you are able to maintain healthy weight, which in turn has several benefits.

Pauline Quirke weight loss: 'I was just fat because I was greedy'
Daily Mail
By Sarah Bull And now Pauline Quirke has come forward to talk about her weight loss, admitting her weight was simply down to her being greedy. In excerpts taken from her new autobiography Where Have I Gone?, the 52-year-old actress writes in a diary...

Daily Mail

Taking vitamin E linked to osteoporosis: research
AsiaOne
The mice developed osteoporosis after eight weeks on the diet, which had levels of vitamin E significantly higher than those found in a mouse's natural diet, according to the study, published in the journal Nature Medicine. The team, led by Shu Takeda ...

AsiaOne

A fruity diet for your hair
Times of India
While it's a known fact that eggs or curd are homemade solutions for healthy conditioned hair, people suffering of dry and/or brittle tresses can look for remedies in fruits like pineapple, guava, grape, apple, mango and banana.

Why Does Body Need Vitamin E?
BoldSky
Vitamin E for body is very essential.. Its anti oxidizing nature helps overcome vitamin related disorders and following a healthy diet plan is very important. Vitamin deficiency can cause a lot of health related issues some of them are noted 1.

BoldSky

Former VNSNY nurse creates raw food company that sells healthy snack bars ...
Nurse.com
While working for seven years for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Benedetto said she saw chronic illness and health problems influenced by diet. "I came to believe in food as medicine," she said. "The body reacts to how we eat, drink and take ...

Why are some physicians bashing a weight loss drug before it's even out?
CTV.ca (blog)
Is it because I think people should "Do it the right way", the "old-fashioned way", the "diet and exercise" way? Good god, no! It's just that to date, the medications that we've had available to us haven't been particularly impressive.

Low-carb, high-protein diets win the battle against the bulge, Israeli study finds
Haaretz
It showed that for losing weight in the short term, which the researchers put at six months, a low-carbohydrate diet, based on meat, fish and eggs - in short, a refined version of the famous Atkins Diet - led to the highest weight loss, with an average ...

Haaretz

THE 3 DAY DIET WEIGHT LOSS? - Yahoo! Answers NZ
"THE 3 DAY DIET WEIGHT LOSS?" - Find the answer to this question and millions more on Yahoo! Answers.
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Diet Health News Uk | The Best Diets For You
diet health news uk Your body requires all the energy it can get to cure Shingles fast. It’ s not unusual. Some things to consider are price, flexibility, features ...
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CheckInTheMirror: Let's Talk Diet (Healthy Snacks Haul & Diet Tips)
Posted by Rachel at 12:19 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Labels:Diet, Health, Rachel Talbott, RachelTalbott, Wellness ...
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Why it's OK to cheat on your diet

Why it's OK to cheat on your diet
Fox News
I'm going to assume you're smart enough not to go on a very low-calorie crash diet that sends your body into a metabolic slowdown. The thing is, even if you follow a logical, moderate caloric deficit over time to lose flab in a sane manner, ...

Ditching the diets, living a leaner lifestyle
WTNH
(WTNH) - If you've tried every diet on the planet from Atkins, to South Beach to Cabbage Soup and you still end up fat, broke and unhappy, then stop! The following tips are guaranteed to take the weight off and improve your health.

WTNH

Bitter truths about sugar
The Hindu
She would shake off all refined sugars from her diet. You won't catch her biting into a piece of black forest cake. We can't always buy, cook or order food with a nutrition manual in hand. But about sugar we can be sure: Added sugar (AS) is unhealthy.

The Hindu

Nutrition tip: Choose the Mediterranean Diet
Lakenewsonline.com
By Anita Marlay If you are looking for a heart-healthy eating plan, the Mediterranean diet might be for you. It's well proven that a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, beans and seeds provides a steady supply of fiber, micronutrients, ...

Dance your way to fitness
Manila Standard Today
by Joba Botana Most health and wellness experts will agree that any diet plan or method works better when paired with physical activities such as exercising, running and the latest form which is making a trend nowadays is dancing.

What Do You Want to Change About Your Diet?
FitSugar.com
Making over your plate is an important step in developing a healthy diet, but there are lots of other habits we can't seem to quit when it comes to food. Whether it's eating when you're not hungry or opting for take-out instead of cooking at home, ...

4 Reasons You're Not Losing Weight
FitSugar.com
Frolicking from one fad diet to another is a surefire way to prevent permanent weight loss. That's because diets just don't work — once you lose weight and go back to your old ways, you'll gain it all back. Weight loss is more about lifestyle changes ...

Sugar branded a poison with calls for tax and regulation
The National
It is everywhere, often using a different name and even appearing as the chief ingredient in so-called health foods such as sports drinks. But now health experts are getting very worried about our craving for sugar. The sweet-toothed habit is said by ...

The National

The information's available
The Star Democrat
By DAVID EVERMAN That's all you need to cut out of your diet every day, seven days a week, to lose one pound a week. "You have to have a deficit of 500 calories a day 3500 calories per week to lose one pound," said Deborah Blood RD, LDN, CDE, ...

Weight Loss Tips for When You Have a Lot to Lose
Newsolio
When you have fifty, seventy or even one hundred pounds – it can be very frustrating todiet. Your diet is less of a sprint and more like a marathon. But you too can be very successful and be a weight loss loser! Get support for your weight loss ...

Newsolio

Kristen Jordan Shamus: 1 step closer to a healthy life
Detroit Free Press
What really mattered was being healthy and comfortable in my own skin. If my clothes fit, that was all I needed. Each time I had a baby, clothes that used to fit didn't anymore. So I'd buy new clothes in a bigger size, telling myself that the extra ...

Victoria's Secret Angel Miranda Kerr unfolds deepest secrets on her beauty !
International Business Times AU
Namita herself being a diet & fitness promoter was very inquisitive to know how serious was Miranda about her nutritional status. To that this is what the supermodel had to say " I adopt the 80/20 rule. 80% healthy and organic, 20% indulgent and that ...

Health Update
Herald Times Reporter
Here's one more reason to avoid trans fats in your diet, especially if you are an older woman: A new study found a 39 percent increased risk of stroke among postmenopausal women who ate the highest amount of this common ingredient in baked goods, ...

Beware of added sugar
The Province
By Nanci Hellmich, McClatchy-Tribune March 4, 2012 Experts warn that added sugars, which add empty calories to the diet, are edging out the food that kids should be eating, especially fruits and vegetables. Kids are gobbling far more added sugars than ...

Meals That Heal: Sorbet for summer
The Hindu
The body converts beta-carotene into vitamin A. Both the nutrients are essential for healthyeyesight. Consumption of a high amount of Vitamin A daily reduces the risk of cataract by as much as 40 per cent. Women who eat cantaloupes regularly are a ...

Kardashian sisters sued for $5 million over ineffective diet pills
allvoices
By Michelle Lincaster The Kardashian sisters always come up with new ways to stay in the media spotlight and this time around they have caused a stir with the QuickTrim diet pills. It has been revealed that the media-loving sisters are reportedly ...

Good Heart Habits In Young Adulthood Pay Off Later In Life: Study
Huffington Post
Northwestern University researchers found that people who led healthy lifestyles as young adults (meaning a low body mass index, not drinking too much alcohol, not smoking, eating a healthy dietand exercising regularly) were also more likely to ...

Is It Possible to Lose Weight without Dieting?
Hive Health Media (blog)
Why assault yourself with yet another diet program, or an exercise routine, when there are better, less painful ways to tackle the issue of weight loss? The very first thing that crosses the mind of a person when he decides to do something about his ...

Lindsay Bonnar: Smart choices, not diet pills, the answer
La Crosse Tribune
After reading an Associated Press article headlined “Does a miracle diet pill exist? A safe drug is elusive” (Feb. 25 Tribune) I found myself thinking —of course a safe drug is elusive, it doesn't exist. The article touched on many things I am ...

The Kardashians 'lied about weight loss pills'?!
heatworld
The Kardashians are being sued for promoting a weight loss pill which just so happens to not work, AT ALL! Major fail… Turns out the drug, called QuickTrim does not trim quick in any way, shape or form and in fact does NOTHING.

heatworld

Kardashian sisters sued for $5 million for falsely claiming that diet pills worked
TheCelebrityCafe.com
The Kardasian sisters, Kim, Kournety and Khloe, are reportedly being sued for $5 million for claiming that the over-the-counter weight loss pills called QuickTrim were the reason why they look so good. TMZ reports that the suit was filed in New York by ...

Harvard Medical School Adviser: Lifestyle changes help combat liver disease
Detroit Free Press
The most important thing you can do is embark on slow, steady weight loss -- and that requires a balanced, calorie-restricted diet along with regular exercise. It's another example of how healthfullifestyle choices improve health.

Untangling health and fitness (dis) information
Ottawa Citizen
Tired of faux-science spins on health claims, Caulfield, a healthlaw professor at the University of Alberta, went on a quest to find out what really makes us healthy. He spent a year looking atweight loss and fad diets, alternative remedies (like ...

Serving size scams that can make you fat
msnbc.com
Well, something like that is happening right now in America's restaurants and supermarkets, but instead of costing you money, these rip-offs are costing you your health and your waistline. See, food manufacturers know that you want to eat healthy, ...

Healthy stuffed cabbage Italian-style
NorthJersey.com
A serving of cruciferous vegetables gives every meal a healthy dose of vitamin C. One potential downside: Cooking cruciferous vegetables, cabbage included, can tend to get a little malodorous or even stinky in the gassy way.

NorthJersey.com

Drink barley water for a thinner waistline
Times of India
Extremely low in calories it acts as a wonderful diet supplement and helps maintain a slim stature. Being low in cholesterol, it is known to reduce cholesterol levels. The core ingredient in this highly useful grain is beta-glucan that is also found in ...

Avoiding skin diseases this rainy season
The Nation Newspaper
Two of the main causes of diseases are wrong diet and lifestyle, which an individual follows either knowingly or unknowingly. Following a diet or life style that is against the season or the nature of a person, creates an imbalance in bodily energies, ...

BLOGS OF THE DAY: Diet soft drinks increase risks of strokes and heart attacks
Daily Mail
By Mail Today Reporter People who drink diet soft drinks daily might have increased risk of vascular events such as stroke, heart attack and vascular death, US researchers said. Study leader Hannah Gardener and her team examined the relationship ...

Daily Mail

The YOU Docs: Make sure those calories you're counting are nutritionally sound
In-Forum
Is counting calories the best way to lose weight? – Lynn, Destin, Fla. A Calories do count – and they're one way to measure your weight-loss efforts – but it makes sense only if the calories you're counting are healthy. We YOU Docs want you to imagine ...

Bonnie Lee Black's ABC's of healthy cooking
Taosnews.com
A healthy approach to healthy cooking boils down to three basic points — attitude, balance and creativity. This is the philosophy of Bonnie Lee Black, former New York chef and caterer, who teaches healthy cooking and bread baking classes in UNM-Taos' ...

Nutritional myths
24 Hours Vancouver
TRUTH: Dietitians are uniquely trained to advise you on food, healthy eating, and nutrition. Dietitians must be part of a regulatory body, just like doctors, nurses and pharmacists. The terms "Registered Dietitian," "Professional Dietitian" and ...

24 Hours Vancouver

Finally, a Weight Loss Product that's actually good for you
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
NEWtritious™, a fortified functional food and beverage company announced today that its Kherb Appeal™ product is formulated to do much more than just promote healthy weight loss - it can potentially provide the support needed for healthy metabolic ...

Healthy lifestyle lowers mid-age cardiac risk
Zee News
Washington: Maintaining a healthy lifestyle from your 20s into your 40s may spell lower cardiovascular risk in mid-age, says a new study. "The problem is few adults can maintain ideal cardiovascular health factors as they age," said Kiang Liu, ...

Zee News

Get Your Plate in Shape
Daily Mail - Charleston (blog)
This is a great chance to reflect on how you eat and determine if your diet needs a few changes. Take some time this month to get your plate in shape. Eating a healthy diet doesn't have to be difficult. 

Kardashian Sisters and QuickTrim Face $5 Million Lawsuit
Diets In Review (blog)
Kim Kardashian along with two of her sisters are being sued for $5 million dollars for allegations the sisters and the makers of QuickTrim made false claims about the product's weight losseffectiveness. The Kardashian sisters had an endorsement deal ...

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hCG diet warning

Beware of the hCG diet
SunHerald.com
"Dr. Mark Vierra is a respected bariatric physician (a doctor with a special interest in weight loss) in our community. He was recently asked to comment on one weight loss regimen making the rounds...the hGC diet. "Twenty years ago," Vierra begins, ...Bottom line? "No responsible scientist or physician has concluded that the hormone, hCG, can help you lose weight," says Vierra. He cites the position of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians: "1. The Simeons method for weight loss is not recommended. 2. The Simeons diet is not recommended. 3. The use of HCG for weight loss is not recommended.". . . "

Getting to the Heart of a Healthy Diet
MarketWatch (press release)
MISSION, KS, Mar 01, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- (Family Features) Healthy habits such as eating well, being physically active, and maintaining a healthy weight are key strategies for managing cardiovascular disease -- the number one cause of death ...

Alkaline Diet Sets the Weight Loss & Health Industry on Fire in 2012 as ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
In the year 2012, TheAlkalineDiet.org sets the new trend for losing weight naturally and a healthier body, influencing over 10000 people to be committed to the Alkaline Diet in January. WILMINGTON, DE, March 02, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ ...

A healthy diet is a marathon runner's bread and butter
Herts and Essex Observer (blog)
JUST as key to a marathon runner's preparation as their training programme is theirdiet, of course (“You wouldn't put diesel in a Ferrari” is Coach Kelly's mantra). I write this having just polished off a Costa ham and cheese panini for breakfast to ...

Herts and Essex Observer (blog)

A good diet is all a question of balance
This is Plymouth
A POOR diet is recognised as a major contributory risk factor for ill-health and premature death. When it comes to a nutritious diet, balance is the key to getting it right, experts say. The majority of Plymouth people are not eating the recommended ...

Combat stress with a balanced diet
Times of India
You can cope with stress, depression and anxiety by avoiding certain foods and eating a balanceddiet. Our expert tells you how We live in times where pill popping has become a solution to all our physical and mental health problems.

Healthy Hollywood: Ask Keri Glassman — Kick The Soda Habit!
Access Hollywood
NEW YORK, NY -- Caption Keri GlassmanNutritionist Keri Glassman is back with Access' Healthy Hollywood team. Keri, who regularly shares her expertise on Access Hollywood and Access Hollywood Live, is now answering your nutrition, diet, andhealth ...

Access Hollywood

March 2, 2012: Time to ban the boloney
Saga Health News
By Judith Wills , Friday 2 March 2012 Known in the 80s as 'the UK's leading diet guru', Judith has spent 2011 blogging about her attempts to lose weight and improve her fitness. After injury and illness she'd reached 12 stone and could barely walk, ...

The 'beer diet' exists, and it's a bad idea
msnbc.com (blog)
Celebrate over a beer, but don't build your diet around it! By Jim Galligan I was recently explaining to my son the occasions leading up to Easter, and doing a pretty poor job of it. After all, the last time I was in a church was...umm...yeah.

msnbc.com (blog)

Annette Larkins vegan diet: Woman, 70, defies ageing process with vegetables ...
Daily Mail
The image of health, vitality and youth with a petite size four frame and a line-free face, Mrs Larkins is in fact 70 years old. The resident of Miami-Dade County, Florida, attributes her youthful looks to her raw vegan diet and grows almost everything ...

Daily Mail

The Hunger Games: The diet and the fitness regimen
Tulsa World (blog)
One fitness trainer has released a workout regimen based on the film. I wonder, has she read the series? It's not exactly a sunny situation, where all you can think about is having six-pack abs. But Lisa Wheeler, of DailyBurn, has introduced a workout ...

Omron Healthcare & Fitness Expert Bob Greene Encourage Americans To Make Every ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LAKE FOREST, Ill., March 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Despite recommendations that suggest the average American should take around 10000 steps a day to maintain proper fitness, many people take about half of that, averaging 5117 steps daily.

Mediterranean dishes provide healthy, balanced eating pattern
The Coloradoan
Supplementing our diet with fish oils improves memory and concentration, which seems to affect the neurotransmitter pathways in the brain.” » Difficulty in concentrating, indecisiveness, slowed or fuzzy thinking. Mia goes on to suggest proper food ...

6 Healthy Weight Loss Tips
becomegorgeous.com
Did you make a commitment to yourself about the radical changes you want in your look and lifestyle? The following 6 healthy weight loss tips help you achieve your slimming goals. Getting in perfect shape and embracing a nutritive eating plan requires ...

becomegorgeous.com

Postmenopausal women at greater stroke risk from high trans fat diet
Newstrack India
In the largest study of stroke in postmenopausal women to date, Dr Ka He and colleagues analyzed data from the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study (WHI-OS) - a prospective cohort study of 87025 women between the ages 50 and 79 who are ...

Take steps to help sharpen your memory as you age
Chicago Tribune
A number of lifestyle changes can often help sharpen your memory. First, stay active physically and mentally. Physical activity increases blood flow to your body, including your brain, and that can help your memory. So, take a brisk walk, or go biking, ...

Weight Loss Success: Ed Cooper Made Over His Relationship To Food And Lost 96 ...
Huffington Post
I've done it all -- prepackaged foods, liquid diets, no-carb diets, cabbage diets, grapefruit diets -- almost every diet under the sun, which always resulted with substantial weight loss and later substantial weight gain. I did not understand why this ...

7 Lessons Dr. Seuss Taught Us About Diet and Fitness
Diets In Review (blog)
Step with care and great tact / and remember that Life's / a Great Balancing Act.” You can apply his thoughts to your life in general, or break it down to summarize one particular area, like relationships,weight loss, work, or politics.

Diet More Important Than Exercise for Optimal Health, Experts Say
CisionWire (press release)
Virtually all studies, say the Griesels, indicate that minimizing calories while optimizing or supplying adequate nutrients results in the best physical health. The most important factor in optimal healthis diet, say boomer generation health experts ...

Innovation Direct™ to Become Marketing Catalyst for Healthy 5 Food Group Tray ...
PR.com (press release)
Miami, FL, March 02, 2012 --(PR.com)-- An innovative new product designed to make healthy and balanced eating much more convenient, the Healthy 5 Food Group Tray, has been developed by Brenda Anderson of Lewisville, Texas. The invention's unique design ...

City is simply the breast for a healthy feed
The Star
By Rachael Clegg A healthy diet starts at birth - with breastfeeding believed to be one of the best ways to beat obesity in later life. But how practical and comfortable is it for new mums to breastfeed in public in Sheffield?

The Star

Workshop gives strategies for healthy lifestyle
RU Daily Targum
Mariam Merced, director of RWJUH's Community Health Promotion Program, said the event, called “Matters of the Heart,” aimed to explore the different useful strategies in living a heart-healthy lifestyle. RWJUH's cardiology department sponsors and hosts ...

Diet impacts skin, not just weight
BCM News
HOUSTON -- (March 1, 2012) -- A healthy diet does a body good inside and out, and a dermatologist at Baylor College of Medicine says that this especially true for the skin, but not in ways that most people think. "Some people believe eating a greasy ...

Lifescript Launches New Healthy Food Section
TopWireNews (press release)
Lifescript.com, a women's health and wellness website headquartered in Mission Viejo, Calif., has just released a new Food section to help women improve their lives with family-friendly recipes,healthy eating guides, diet and fitness tools, and more.

Woman who weighed more than entire family loses 31 stone
Telegraph.co.uk
But after undergoing a rapid weight loss regime, she has shed an incredible 31 stone - more than the weight of all four of her offspring put together. Marie, a housewife from Newark-on-Trent, Notts, said: "At my heaviest, I couldn't even get up the ...

Telegraph.co.uk

KU nutritionists give students advice on healthy eating habits
University Daily Kansan
Maintaining a nutritious diet and keeping off the pounds is often difficult, but students can still find simple ways to eat healthy. Living a sedentary lifestyle, inadequate consumption of produce, lack of sleep, and stress are all reasons students ...

Rash of Nickel Food Allergies Linked to Healthier Diet
HealthCanal.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Whole grains, oatmeal, legumes, nuts and soy are all recommended as part of a healthy, balanced diet. ​These foods also contain trace amounts of nickel. As a result, more people are developing allergic reactions from nickel, ...

Foods that make you look younger
Times of India
A healthy diet loaded with lean protein and whole grains will allow you to retain muscle tone but lose excess fat as you age, while plenty of antioxidant-rich fruits and veggies will help stave off those wrinkles. The waistlines of middle-aged people ...

It's a mad, fad food world
The Hindu
This is the cabbage soup diet, which the Internet claims, has millions of followers worldwide. In these times of instant gratification, rapid weight-loss programmes or fad diets are getting increasingly popular, with celebrity endorsements to boot.

The Hindu

QNEXA: Weight Loss at What Cost
InjuryBoard.com
In October 2010, when Qnexa was first submitted by the manufacturer, Vivus Inc., the FDA rejected the diet pill due to concerns over side effects such as raised heart rate, psychiatric problems and birth defects. Vivus resubmitted the drug this year ...

Trans Fats Increase Stroke Risk
Medscape
February 29, 2012 — Postmenopausal women whose diet is high in trans fats, found in fried foods and packaged products, are at higher risk for certain types of ischemic stroke, a new analysis shows. Using data from the Women's Health Initiative ...

Why Does a Diet High in Fructose Cause Health Problems?
The Checkup
A new study shed light on why a diet high in fructose contributes to the development of obesity and diabetes. Previous studies have linked fructose consumption to obesity, diabetes, liver disease and metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome, a group of ...

The Checkup

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Simple budgeting for a healthy diet - Health & Fitness - Daily ...
Eating healthy, once it becomes habit, is simple but can be taxing on your bank account. However, budget concerns should not inhibit healthy habits as there are ...
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Donohue: Is a vegetarian diet healthy for 9-year-old? | The Town ...
Dear Dr. Donohue: My 9-year-old granddaughter became a vegetarian more than a year ago, and she has stuck to her guns. Her mother lives a harried life and ...
www.thetowntalk.com/.../Donohue-vegetarian-diet-healthy-9-...

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