Is the hCG Diet Safe and Effective?

Dr. Oz featured it on his show and now the nation is ecstatic over the latest fad diet – hCG. Is it safe and does it work? Read this to find out if it’s all that it’s cracked up to be. The newest fad diet is the hCG diet and people are head over heels [...]

What Dieting Teens Are Doing Wrong

Recent research conducted in American high schools shows that kids who are overweight are aware of the problem and roughly 75 percent of them want to do something to lose the extra weight. The researchers found that the teens they interviewed had the drive to lose weight but they didn’t seem to have the information [...]

What Is Lap Band Surgery?

Lap Band Surgery – Weight Loss Has Never Been So Easy! There are numerous ways in which modern medicine can help an obese individual lose weight in a hurry. When most people think of weight loss, they think of diets, but there is a whole other realm called bariatric surgery. These surgical procedures physically modify [...]

5 Dead Simple Ways To Start Losing Weight

Losing weight doesn’t need to be hard. The reason losing weight is so hard for many people is because they have been fooled into believing that following a complicated plan is the only way to lose weight. Whether it’s a ridiculous diet or a workout plan that requires you to be in the gym seven [...]

The Nitty Gritty – Get To Where You Want To Go!

We’ve talked about why we eat. We’ve talked about our cravings for certain foods. We’ve talked about the emo­tional and physical aspects of the food that goes into our bodies. We’ve talked about some fairly well-known – diets of recent years and how they may not be the most effective methods to reduce and to [...]

This Is Not Merely a Diet, It’s a New Way Of Life.

When I was a Weight Watcher at my fattest I man­aged to lose weight, although, as I mentioned, it was in the middle of the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season. If you are motivated it doesn’t matter where you are. You can be sitting in a pool of Swiss butter almond ice cream surrounded by [...]

Recognize The Negative Effect Of Sugar On Your Body

As dieters, we recognize the negative effect of sugar on our bodies. There are scientists who insist that sugar is not a food at all and if it was to be introduced today as a new additive, the Food and Drug Administration would ban it as unfit for human consumption. Sugar can be addictive. It [...]

Have You Heard This One Before?

I could have called this article “A Review of All the Diets of the Twentieth Century,” but I like this title better. The fact is, there is very little new under the sun in dieting. Whether they call it Stillman, Atkins, Pritkin, or Scarsdale, most of what they have to say has been said before. [...]

Diets! Diets! Diets!

Many people who can afford it go to lavish spas where they can be massaged and pampered while taking off unwanted pounds. At the Golden Door, located in southern California, you can buy the luxury of being one of only thirty guests where eighty-seven staffers attend to your every need. The owner, Deborah Mazzanti, in [...]

Are You Toying With Compulsive Dieting?

You will learn, as I did, to keep to your goal and not strive to reduce below it. Otherwise you are toying with compulsive dieting. When I set about losing those last ten pounds, I was going through a divorce. (I guess you could say that when my husband and I parted I lost 185 [...]

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