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Our Newest Diet Reviews

• P.I.N.K Method: Power, Intensity, Nutrition and ‘Kardio'. This program created by certified nutritionist Cynthia Pasquella.
• 6 Week Body Makeover: a plan customized to your body type and personal metabolism.
• I Love This Diet: Developed by registered dietitians, the calorie/portion control plan is built around low cost frozen food from the grocery store.
• Janet Jackson True You: the pop singer's autobiography where she writes extensively about her weight battles.
• Aquavore Diet: solution to weight and unhealthiness is "high moisture" diet.
• Transformation Solution: go beyond just nutrition and exercise for physical change, and into the mind-body connection.
• 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman.
• Kirstie Alley’s Organic Liaison Diet: the plan touts the health and weight loss benefits of organic foods as a lifestyle choice.
• Pancreatic Oath: learn to understand how the body processes food, how it impacts the pancreas, and the effect that poor food choices has on body weight and overall health.
• Food Lovers Fat Loss System: the tv infomercial and calorie shifting plan by Robert Ferguson designed to charge up your metabolism.
• Calorie Shifting: the weight loss strategy that combats the slowdown in your metabolism when you eat less.
• Crazy Sexy Diet Review: author Kris Carr followed a dramatic low-fat, vegetarian raw food diet to better her chances of beating cancer.
• Exhale Core Fusion DVD workouts: are based on the fundamentals of the Lotte Berk Method and Pilates.
• 80-10-10 Diet: this is a raw food, vegan program. The 80-10-10 designations indicate Graham’s preferred ratio of nutrients for a healthy diet: 80% carbohydrates, 10% protein and 10% fat.
• The Sinatra Solution: Metabolic Cardiology. Not a weight loss diet per se, but rather a cardiac diet intended to treat heart disease conditions and aid in heart attack recovery.
• Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter’s 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds. Vegetarian diet.
• Skinny Italian Diet: “Real Housewives of New Jersey,” feisty and outspoken Teresa Guidice offers up her weight loss plan.
• 400 Calorie Fix from Prevention Magazine's Liz Vaccariello: eat 3 or 4 meals a day in 400 calorie portions to lose weight.
• 4 Day Diet plan is arranged by a series of seven phases, each lasting four days, with an expected weight loss of 10-12 pounds in the first 28 days
• The Flexitarian Diet by Dawn Jackson Blatner RD. A "flexitarian" gives you the benefits of a vegetarian diet without abolishing meat.
• Fat Smash Diet gained notoriety on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, where Hollywood celebrities followed the diet and competed to lose weight. A 4-Phase of lifestyle change.
• Citrimax or hydroxycitric acid (HCA) is a popular ingredient in weight-loss products. It is derived from the rind of garcinia cambogia, a fruit from India that resembles a tiny pumpkin
• Bikini Bootcamp : guests eat healthy, yet delicious food, take daily beach walks, practice yoga, meditate, engage in core and circuit training – and ultimately go home healthier and fitter than when they arrived.
• Stress Less, Weigh Less: a diet book whose primary emphasis is reducing your stress levels so that you can find the energy and desire to live more healthily.
• Mommy Diet by Alison Sweeney, of Days of Our Lives and "The Biggest Loser" fame, brings us a weight loss plan that is a full-on lifestyle guide for busy mothers.
• Tracy Anderson 30 Day Method: an intense, restrictive and demanding diet and fitness program that Anderson says will enable you to achieve a perfect dancer’s body in only one month. Used by Madonna, Shakira and other celebs.
• Trim360 meal delivery service advocates consuming 7 small meals and snacks over the course of your day, so you’re eating something every 2.5 to 3 hours.
• 321 Baby Bulge be Gone: specifically targeted towards new mothers looking to drop pregnancy weight . This diet has also been used by Hollywood starlets Halle Berry and Jessica Albs.
• Bridal Bootcamp : U.S. military’s boot camp inspired training regimens adapted specifically for women – in particular women who want to get in shape for their weddings.
• 17 Day Diet: A best-selling book authored by San Diego physician Dr. Mike Moreno. It is a low calorie low carb diet plan that runs in 17 day cycles over 68 days.
• Bob Harper : trainer from NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” whose folksy, warm demeanor put him in sharp contrast with shrill, verbally abusive fellow “Loser” trainer Jillian Michaels .
• Carb Lover's Diet : carbohydrates can actually boost your metabolism and accelerate weight loss, thanks to something called resistant starch.
• hCG Diet. The hCG diet is a regimen of either daily injections or oral droplets of hCG in 23 or 40 day cycles, in conjunction with a staggeringly low 500 calorie a day diet.
• Bob Harper Smart Success – the Smarter Weight Loss Pill: a diet pill from the champion of fitness training from the show the Biggest Loser. Hmm?
• Caffeinated Leggings: put on these tights and lose weight?
• New 2011 Food Guide Pyramid: a reshuffling of the USDA's food consumption recommendations.

 

Another View: Updated Reviews

• 8 Minutes in the Morning a fitness and weight loss plan targeted at those who don't have the time or don't wish to make a major commitment
• Abs Diet plan is to help you build more muscle by eating the right foods and exercising so that your body burns fat faster.
• As Seen on TV programs that have been featured and marketed on television, mostly through infomercials, and reality shows.
• Atkins Diet is high protein, low carb diet. According to the popular way of following this plan, you are allowed to eat as much fat as you like as long as you consume very little carbohydrates.
• Beverly Hills Diet "Conscious Combining", which is the practice of combining the foods you eat in a specific way, and eating them at specific times.
• Change One Diet from the Readers Digest. Make one small change in your lifestyle per week.
• Chromium Picolinate marketed as a weight loss aid. An ingredient in hundreds of over-the-counter diet pills and supplements.
• Curves for Women an international chain of micro-gyms that offer resistance machines that target each of the body's muscle groups.
• DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) was developed by medical professionals as a means of treating people with high blood pressure.
• Detox Diets liquid juice fasts with some combination of lemon or lime juice, maple syrup or molasses and some form of dry pepper such as cayenne.
• Eat More, Weigh Less no more than ten percent of your daily calories in the form of fat and eat lots of high-fiber and fresh vegetables.
• Five Factor Diet 5 week plan where you eat 5 meals a day, made from 5 ingredients that take 5 minutes to prepare each day.
• French Women Don't Get Fat . French meals typically contain several courses, but the portions are small and the foods are higher in quality.
• Grapefruit Diet grapefruit contains a special fat-burning enzyme, activated when you eat it at each meal.
• Green Tea as an appetite suppressant. Key component of green tea is an anti-oxidant called epigallocatechin gallete, or EGCG.
• Hamptons Diet focus on monounsaturated fats such as macadamia nuts, olive oil, and avocados, along with an increased consumption of fish.
• Hawaii Diet plan to treat heart disease, hypertension, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, and stroke common to Native Hawaiians.
• Herbalife multi-level marketing company that sells herbal fat burners intended to spike the body's metabolic rate.
• Hilton Head Diet change your body chemistry to burn fat more effectively with a highly structured nutritional program of five small meals a day and a regular exercise program.
• Hollywood 48 Hour Miracle Diet disrupts your regular food intake while cleansing your digestive system and activating your body's internal "fat burning furnace".
• Home exercise machines the pros and cons of all those products that clutter your home and eventually end up in the garage, collecting dust.
• Human Growth Hormone (HGH) used by competitive and professional athletes for years as a muscle-building, injury-reducing performance enhancer.
• Fat Loss for Idiots focuses on "Calorie Shifting": by mixing up combinations of foods and mealtimes, you will trick your body into increased metabolism.
• Jenny Craig one of the icons of the industry. Fundamentally a meal delivery program of pre-packaged meals, exercise and personal counseling.
• Jillian Michaels is the well-known, no-nonsense fitness trainer seen on the series "The Biggest Loser."
• L-Carnitine is a naturally occuring chemical compound which may play a vital role in metabolizing fat
• LA Shape by Dr. Heber. Healthy weight is not about a number on the scale, it's about a healthy body shape. How much fat and muscle are you carrying on your body?
• Lindora Lean for Life Southern California clinics. Medically-supervised low carb program which begins with a medical evaluation and test.
• Makers Diet religious diet that is based on the author's interpretation of Biblical principles to observe God's dietary laws.
• Marilu Henner Total Body Makeover lifestyle program of organic, chemical-free near-vegetarian food.
• Martha's Vineyard Diet "detoxification cleanse". Fruit and vegetable fast, with the addition of enzymes and colonics.
• Mayo Clinic Diet excessive consumption of grapefruit and grapefruit products, because of their supposed mysterious, miraculous fat burning powers.
• Morning Banana Diet Japanese fad diet. What role bananas might play in weight loss. Is it special enzymes? Role of increased fiber?
• Negative Calorie Diet is based on the pretence that you eat food that takes more calories to burn in your body than it has.
• Nutrisystem jump on their website and browse the food selections, make your picks, and a month's supply of frozen food will be delivered to your door.
• Pedometer counts and records the number of steps you take in a day, based on your body's movements.
• Perfect Body Diet Women need a higher protein diet than men to increase lean body tissue and decrease body fat.
• Pentabosol lemon flavored powder supplement made up of several herbal ingredients.
• Perricone Face Lift a moderate to low-carbohydrate, fish-focused plan with anti-oxidant and omega-3-rich whole foods.
• Personality Type Diet addresses the specifics of each personality type, offering guidance and advice aimed to help you better understand your attitudes and behavior.
• Pilates focuses on body alignment by working the abdominals, the back and muscles that stabilize the spine.
• Plant Macerat a concoction of 16 different herbs. The primary ingredients in this supplement are laxative and diuretic in nature.
• Popcorn Diet suggests that dieters eat only popcorn, but this diet mainly involves eating basic, healthy nutrition while snacking on popcorn.
• Power 90 by Tony Horton -a dvd set of cardio and sculpting/toning exercise routines.
• Prism a faith-based program with the objective to eliminite sugar and drastically reduce carbohydrate intake.
• Pritiken Diet heart-healthy plan that is almost completely vegetarian. It encourages the consumption of large amounts of whole grains and vegetables.
• Protein Power Insulin, released by carbohydrates, causes health problems such as heart disease, high cholesterol, hypertension, fluid retention, diabetes and excessive weight.
• Raw Food Diet focuses on only consumming uncooked foods such as fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.
• Reverse Diet large number of calories that are consumed in the evening at dinner are reversed with the low number of calories that are consumed at breakfast.
• Richard Simmons flamboyant, often outrageous public persona and trademark short-shorts and spangly top, Simmons is THE icon of gurus.
• Rotation Diet alternates food consumption between low and moderate intake in an effort to prevent the body from lowering its metabolic rate as an adaptation to decreased food consumption.
• Scarsdale Diet the famed fad diet is a low carbohydrate plan, along with grapefruit consumption and appetite suppressant pills.
• Scott & White Diet silly spin on the Grapefruit Diet, named after renowned hospital in Texas.
• Skinny Bitch advocates veganism as part of a more general advocacy of animal rights.
• Slim Fast is the most common diet shake. The Slim Fast Plan calls for a shake at breakfast and lunch, and then a sensible dinner.
• Slim in 6 fat burning, body toning and muscle sculpting with a combination of cardio exercise and resistance moves over 6 weeks.
• SlimQuick the hook with this pill is the claim that it is "designed strictly for women."
• Smart Technique works sort of like hypnosis - you listen to audio recordings every day which are supposed to influence your subconscious and change your behavior.
• Sonoma Diet wine growing region of California inspired plan that focuses on eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, pasta, rice and seeds.
• South Beach Diet is a healthier version of known low carbohydrate diets. It was created for the purpose of lowering cholesterol for heart patients and those with diabetes.
• South Beach Supercharged is a 10-week fitness plan to go along with the South Beach food plan.
• The Spectrum by Dr. Dean Ornish. Extremely low fat vegetarian diet, exercise, and stress management using Eastern philosophies of yoga and medication.
• The Firm series of at-home exercise videos that are a combination of cardio, weight training, aerobic step, dance and yoga.
• Three Day Diet scheme that combines certain foods that are supposed to create a desired reaction in your digestive system and boost your metabolism.
• Tony Little's Gazelle is an elliptical home exercise machine that focuses on weight loss, muscle toning and cardiovascular exercise.
• TOPS (Taking Off the Pounds Sensibly) support group program.
• Turbo Jam a cardiovascular workout video program that encorporates aerobics, kickboxing, body sculpting, set to popular dance music.
• Ultimate Tea Diet advocates giving up coffee and a basic diet of vegetables, fruits, grains and low fat proteins, along with exercise and meditation.
• Vegetarian Diets cut out the meat and consume lots of fruits and veggies. Many different levels.
• Walk Away the Pounds by Leslie Sansone. DVD program that focuses on walking for calorie burning.
• Warrior Diet intermittent eating rather than constant, regular patterns like our ancestors.
• Weight Down the key to successful weight loss is...God, and lessons taken from scripture.
• Weight Watchers the classic program of balanced nutrition and group counseling meetings.
• Weight Watchers Online program offers community forums for counseling and support and all members have access to online information regarding nutrition and food choices.
• Wii Fit Nintendo video game people have jumped into the fitness market.
• Winsor Pilates workout video program that focuses on simple body motion exercises that isolate specific muscles and muscle groups.
• Wu-Long Tea Chinese herbal tea used to burn fat for many centuries.
• Xenical prescription drug that reduces the amount of fat that can be absorbed during digestion by up to thirty percent.
• You on a Diet focus of the book is to give the reader a better sense of the biology of the human body and how it affects weight loss.
• Zumba by Beto Perez. Focuses on a Latin dance derivative of traditional aerobics.

 

Latest News & Articles

• Obesity studies in the news Every day the daily headlines say the same, common sense things.
• Teenagers and Weight Loss: a guide for parents.
• Where Diets Go Wrong an essay on the reasons why diets go astray and lead to yo-yoing
• Sensible Tips a list of tips that will help you lose weight.
• The Best Diet: 15 Things to Look for and Avoid follow these rules and you will succeed where others fail.
• Commentary on the obesity news the latest news headlines in the world of obesity.
• Obesity Effects Allergies in Children did you know that being overweight effects many aspects of your child's health.
• Positive Approach losing weight is almost always seen as negative, negative, negative suffering. It doesn't have to be.
• Choosing a Safe and Successful Program guide to finding a program that will actually work for you.
• Multi-Level Marketing in the Industry (MLM's) did you know the diet industry is full of pyramid schemes to push uneeded products?
• Nutritional Quackery everyone has something to sell, most of it nonsense, especially when it comes to nutrition.
• The Truth about an Industry: Failure Rates exposes the remarkable failure of a very large American industry.
• Online Weight Loss the hottest trend in dieting over the past 10 years. Login to lose weight?
• Top Ten of What Works and Why Solutions for permanent success.
• Obesity: The Biggest Threat to America terrorism and economic woes are hardly the biggest problem facing our country. A population of unhealthy, lethargic people is.
• Fats: the big differences not all fats are equal. The differences between monounsaturated, saturated, polyunsaturated, and trans fat.
• Obama's Plan to End Childhood Obesity Epidemic The First Lady and her plan to curb the nation's obesity epedemic (when she's not on a lavish vacation at taxpayer expense).
• Obesity Rates in the US: State Rankings How does your state rank?
• See our weight loss and obesity news page

 

Diet Pills Articles

• What are drugs used to treat excess weight? List and descriptions of all the diet drugs that flood the market.
• Best & Healthiest Fish to Eat Do you know which fish are healthy and which should be avoided at all costs? You'd be surprised.
• Herbal Diet Supplements: The Universal Truths Herbs are often referred to as "natural" products, implying they are healthy and safe. So are rocks and dirt. Did you eat those?
• Herbal Diet Supplements - Warning the truth about herbal supplements/diet pills.
• The Skinny on Herbs
• Are Herbs Good Medicine?
• The Bottom Line about Diet Pills an essay that sums up the realities of things that simply never work. Ever.
• FTC Files Second Civil Contempt Action Expose and warning on Acceleron.
• Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 Sound like a harmless act of the US Congress? Hardly.
• Senator Durbin's Response in Congress Illinois senator's take on the Dietary Supplement Act. Interesting.
• Herbal Supplements: Getting Ripped or Getting Ripped Off article about all the herbal crap that body builders take.
• Herbal supplements that may be helpful not all herbal supplements are bad. Who knew?
• Growing Younger With Hormones
• Acai Pills Scam expose of incredible scam. Get free pills! You just have to input your credit card information first. Right.

 

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