What is the best diet?
If you were to walk down the diet and weight loss section of your local bookstore, you would find hundreds of different diets all promising one thing: weight loss. How can you differentiate between healthy diets that deliver results and unhealthy fads that lead to failure? The best diet is...
Is there a difference between dieting and being healthy?
An all too common myth is that dieting, no matter the method, will make you healthy. Losing weight can be approached from two directions: the healthy and the unhealthy way. Making long term lifestyle choices will help you lead a healthy lifestyle, lose weight and get you to your
Does the Atkins Diet work?
All diets that produce results are based on a simple principle: if you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. It's creating this calorie deficit that causes weight loss. As far as losing weight is concerned, it doesn't matter whether or not the weight loss is done in...
Will this diet work?
When trying to lose weight the question is, will this diet work? The answer to that depends on the diet's prescribed caloric intake as well as the types of foods it recommends you eat. Not all diets are created equal and simply entering a calorie deficit doesn't always equal...
Do diets work?
Losing weight, at least on paper, is a simple process. There's only one rule you need to follow to shed those pounds: burn more calories than you eat. There are two steps you can take to put this rule into effect: eat less and exercise more, there's nothing else...
12 Healthy Habits of Christmas – Day 6 – Fad Diets
For day 6 of our 12 healthy habits for Christmas, I am going to write about a topic that isn't technically a health "habit", but I get enough emails about this, that I feel justified in including it in our roundup: ignore (or at least research before you try) Fad...
Diet vs. Lifestyle Changes
In our vocabulary, the word “diet” has come to mean a painful, restrictive eating plan designed to lose weight very quickly and easily as long as the plan is followed. There are all kinds of diets out there from the grapefruit diet to the Atkins Diet to the cabbage soup...
What are crash diets?
Crash diets are plans that severely restrict your calorie intake for a few days in hopes that you will lose a lot of weight in a very short period of time. Unfortunately, crash diets promise to much and delivers too little. While they do result in a lot of weight...
Does Nutrisystem work?
Nutrisystem is different from most diets because instead of giving you information on how to lose weight, they actually send you complete meals through the mail. If you've tried creating your own diet but got frustrated with counting calories, measuring food and restricting what you ate, this plan may work...