Today most diets choose carbohydrates as the culprit in weight gain. As in most cases this is true, there are some things you need to know before trying these diets. The first is that your body needs carbohydrates as a source of initial or quick energy. Not all carbohydrates are created equally. With the exception…

Ornish Diet In a randomized trial conducted, the participants assigned to the Ornish diet for one year ( and who showed adherence), had marked decreases in weight, HDL cholesterol levels and C-reactive protein (Danson et al, 2005). Pros: Addresses both physical and emotional/mental health. While the Ornish diet encourages cardio and categorization of foods, it…

A comprehensive review of diet solutions leads to a number of conclusions. There are many players in this market. It is now is a multi-billion dollar industry world-wide. Millions try this diet and that diet but very few find a permanent solution to their weight problem. Millions are frustrated and downright discouraged in their utter…

he eternal dispute – low fat or low carb diet? Recent researches compared three popular dietary models in order to understand what is the most effective method for weight loss and good health. 322 people with human obesity (86% men) participated in the study as three dietary patterns and their effect on weight loss were…

So we have in our winners. In a list of 35 popular diets for a study carried out by US News and World Report magazine the expert opinion of assembled experts gave us the verdict of The Biggest Loser diet and the DASH diet as being the best diet for diabetics, in both helping individuals…

How many diets have you “failed” at? If you’re like most of us, more than one. Maybe many more than one. But, it’s not if you fail or how many times you fail that counts. It’s how you handle failure that matters in the long run. The Same Coin Failure and success are two sides…

How do you rate the difficulty of dieting and losing weight on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 meaning it’s very easy for you and 10 meaning it’s really hard? The average difficulty rating seems to be around 8. That’s an unscientific, anecdotal based estimate. If you “failed” at diets in the past…

The 3 Day Diet programs are making another comeback around the diet arena, once more being presented as a brand new rapid weight loss concept. They are again becoming rather fashionable as the latest fad quick weight loss plan. Regardless of their popularity, many are asking if it is safe to experience fast weight loss,…

Detoxification or starvation? Diets for detoxification have come under immense scrutiny over the months that have passed. There are numerous claims that only weight that can be lost is the weight of water from the start of the fasting period and the subsequent loss of weight due to the reduction of caloric intake. A detoxification…

What is the Paleo diet, what does it represent. Who should go on the Paleo diet? Does the Paleo diet really work? Where can you get access to examples of the Paleo diet? All these questions and more I shall be answering in the article below. So what exactly is the Paleo diet? The Paleolithic…