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… Continue reading
Category: Diet & Weight Loss
The effective cabbage soup’s diet
The Cabbage Soup Diet: What It Is 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… Continue reading
A diet with baby food?
Pureed carrots, meats, and mashed bananas are typical foods for babies without teeth, but they are also the latest weight loss trend to hit Hollywood. Created by celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson, The Baby Food Diet is the latest weight loss fad promising to curb cravings, allow eating on the run, and lose weight quickly. Strange… Continue reading
Best snacks with 100 calories or less
Sweet Treats -5 Nabisco Nilla Wafers -1 Whole Foods Market Two-Bite Brownie -1 Healthy Choice Mocha Fudge Swirl Bar -9 Tootsie Roll Midgees -1 pouch Keebler Sandies Right Bites Shortbread Cookies -½ cup Sharon’s Lemon Sorbet with 1/4 cup blueberries -1 Skinny Cow Fat Free Fudge Bar -1 Nestlé Butterfinger Stixx -12 vanilla Miss Meringue… Continue reading
Vegan and vegetarian diet – part two
What’s included in the vegetarian food pyramid? Vegetarian Food Pyramid What’s included in the vegan food pyramid? Vegan Food Guide Pyramid It’s important to remember that you can consume too many calories following a vegetarian or a vegan diet. Too much of any food can lead to weight gain and the health problems associated with… Continue reading
Vegan and vegetarian diets
Introduction to vegetarian diets To eat meat, or not to eat meat…This is the question on many people’s mind. The negative impact of animal foods on health, the damage associated with animal foods and the environment, religious beliefs, and the desire to protect and respect animals are some of the reasons for the increase in… Continue reading
Raw food diet – healthy and efficient
Depending on the source, a raw food diet is either a path to perfect health or to serious undernourishment. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Devotees insist that a diet consisting mainly of uncooked, unprocessed plant foods leads to a leaner body, clearer skin, and higher energy. They also believe it cuts the risk… Continue reading
Preparing for losing a lot of weight
If you’re very overweight or obese right now, you might feel like the odds of ever achieving a healthy weight are pretty remote. But you can do it. And the benefits will be tremendous. So how do you begin?We asked Michael Dansinger, MD, an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He’s… Continue reading