- The History of Fad Diets, part 2 – Diets Throughout History
Henry the Conqueror, after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, went on a liquid diet consisting of bed rest and a ton of alcohol. Thomas Short, a diet writer from 1727, recommended that overweight people move away from the swamps and closer to dryer climates. Lord Byron popularized the Vinegar Diet (a cup of water [...]
- The History of Fad Diets, part 1 — Introduction
Some diets may still seem ridiculous to you—like the Cookie Diet will never really sit well with me—but if you look at the history of fad diets over the last hundred or so years, you’ll see that while lots of silly fads have come and gone, we’ve actually come a long way.
Did you know that [...] - Tater Power!
Not all carbs are bad for you, not even potatoes. That’s right, the carb of all carbs is not just empty calories like many people think, but is actually jam-packed with energy-boosting nutrients and can be a healthy part of your diet.
Potatoes contain phenol which is an antioxidant proven to fight diseases. An All Blue [...] - Is Dark Chocolate the New Diet Pill?
That’s right, chocolate does not need to be the enemy. You can eat chocolate and lose weight — you just need to know how to do it right. Here’s how:
First, always eat dark chocolate; and the darker the better. Good dark chocolate means that there is a high concentration of cacao, which has been known [...] - Should You Buy Diet Pills Online?
After I posted about Phentermine a few weeks ago, I got an email from someone saying that she had done some online browsing and saw that she could buy cheap Phentermine online without a prescription. She asked me if I thought that was a good idea or not.
I’m glad that this came up because I’d [...] - The Coconut Diet: A Healthy Lifestyle Diet
Some diets tell you that you can NEVER eat this or that. Other diets force you to ONLY eat these particular foods. The best and easiest diets to follow are the ones that suggest that in addition to your regular healthy diet, you ALSO ingest these certain things. So is the case for the popular [...]
- The Lemonade Diet – If Beyonce and Tom Hanks can do it, so can you!
When you need to lose weight fast, there’s really only one way to do it: Go on the Lemonade Diet. All you do is drink a special water mixture for 7-10 days consisting of water, cayenne pepper, maple syrup, lemon juice, and either green tea, peppermint tea, or an herbal stimulant laxative tea. These ingredients [...]
- Calcium Helps With Weight Loss
You know you’re supposed to drink your milk for strong bones but what most people are not aware of is the link between calcium intake and weight loss. New research has shown that boosting calcium consumption spurs weight loss in people whose diets are calcium deficient. The discovery was made in a 15-week weight [...]
- Your Weight Loss Pal, Xenical
Are you ready to lose weight but don’t know which weight loss pill to try? Unlike other weight-loss drugs that act to suppress appetite or to speed up metabolism, Xenical’s active ingredient, orlistat, works on the digestive system to block fat in the food you eat from being digested by the digestive enzyme called lipase. [...]
- Cabbage Soup Returns!
Remember the cabbage soup diet? Maybe you have heard of it but have no idea what it is all about? Well, it is not just cabbage soup, which will come as a relief to some. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t got all of the great qualities which make it a classic fad diet. Yet, [...]
- What is Weight Watchers?
We have all heard of the amazing Weight Watchers program and remember Fergie boasting her weight loss after sticking to the plan, but if you haven’t done it, chances are you don’t know all of the details of this successful program. To start with, Weight Watchers encourages members to select a goal weight that results [...]
- Stomach Stapling and Gastric Banding
Although not the most holistic of approaches (ha ha) many people turn to the option of restrictive operations or those operations that make the stomach smaller such as stapling and gastric bands for an answer to losing the excess weight. The surgeries make you full a lot quicker than you are used to and the [...]
- South Beach Diet This Summer
Ah, the oh-so sunny and popular South Beach Diet! Just the name makes many want to follow the diet plan designed by a cardiologist and dietician, as an alternative to low-fat approaches such as the Ornish Diet and the Pritikin Diet. The diet is relatively simple in principle and what it does is replace bad [...]
- Slim Down With Slim-Fast
Much more than a just diet shakes, Slim-Fast has developed soups, pasta, meal-in-one bars, and snacks with the idea that meal replacement products help people lose weight. The Slim-Fast plan includes 6 yummy small meals/snacks a day and you are advised to use Slim-Fast products for two meals and one snack daily. The rest of [...]
- All About Liposuction
Also known as lipoplasty or “fat modeling”, also called liposuction or lipo is a cosmetic surgery that removes fat from different places on the body including the belly, thighs, butt, neck, backs of the arms and elsewhere. It is a form of body contouring with significant risks. The amount of fat removed varies but is [...]
- Detoxify and Lose Weight with a Juice Fast
Quite popular in recent years especially among the stars and celebrities is juice fasting, a type of detoxification diet in which you consume only fruit and vegetable juices. Juices are digested more rapidly than food as pure juice contains little to no fiber, and the body needs little energy to process it. Some of the [...]
- Losing Weight with Jenny Craig
The well known Jenny Craig program began in 1983 in Australia and started in the U.S. in 1985. The weight loss method is a food-mind-body plan that helps people lose weight and keep it off.
The keystone to the Jenny Craig diet is the prepackaged meals which include frozen breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts too. They [...] - Fen-Phen and Phentermine
Did you know that the infamous Fen-Phen was a combo of 2 different weight loss medicines? Fenfluramine first came out in the 1970s, but was not popular because it only temporarily reduced weight by a few pounds. In the 1990s when it was combined with phentermine it got heavy marketing and gained popularity. Already in [...]
- The Atkins Diet
The Atkins diet is the famous low-carb diet created by Dr Robert Atkins and it came from a diet which he himself used to lose his extra weight. Later, the Atkins diet became available to the masses in a series of books, including “Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution” in 1972 and the revised book, Dr. Atkins’ [...]