Weight Loss contains 123 articles
Popular Fad Diets: The Acai Berry Diet Plan
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Acai Berry Diet mania began when enormously popular Oprah Winfrey mentioned these Amazonian berries on her TV show. Anything Oprah mentions or endorses becomes popular overnight and it wasn’t long before acai berries began appearing in everything from drinks to ice cream. The acai berry phenomenon has been labeled a fad, but that is simply […]

Popular Fad Diets: The Subway Diet
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Jared Fogle popularized the Subway Diet when he lost 245 pounds while chowing down on a Subway sandwich, twice each day, almost seven days each week. If we can believe the media buzz on Jared, he was transformed himself from an obese couch potato, weighing 425 pounds to a fit 180 who took daily walks […]

Popular Fad Diets: The Lemonade Cleansing Diet
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The Lemonade Cleansing Diet isn't new but has grown in publicity and popularity since the increased publicity about fasting as a way of improving health and losing weight. The slim volume that lays out the lemonade cleanse was written by Stanley Burroughs in 1941. Also known as The Maple Syrup Diet and The Lemonade Diet, […]

Popular Fad Diets: The Hollywood Celebrity Diet
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The Hollywood Celebrity Diet was an ever-present headline back in the 1990s as it proclaimed that myriad Hollywood stars drank this concoction to lose the pound brought on by life-in-the-fast-lane. Ads were on TV and in every magazine – and it can still be found in WalMart, proving that its popularity hasn’t completely dissipated.   […]

Popular Fad Diets: The New Cabbage Soup
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The 7 Day Cabbage Soup Diet has been around for 20+ years and has now been updated to the New Cabbage Soup Diet because taste of the main source of nourishment – cabbage soup (big surprise!) – has been improved. The Cabbage Soup Diet has three main premises: The main food is the cabbage soup. […]

Popular Fad Diets: Junk Or Miracle?
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Over the next couple of weeks, we’re reviewing a series of popular fad diets. Many diet fads come and go at lightning speed … and disappear never to be heard from again. The ones we’ll review have been around for quite a long time. The fad weight loss diets we’ll review are: Ice Cream Diet […]

Diet and Fitness: RESPONSIBLY Promote Your Health With Diet & Fitness
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Sometimes we don’t like it but diet and fitness simply ARE a part of the life of a wise person. Promoting your health with diet and fitness brings our bodies into balance. Still, many folks are one sided, in that they eat a healthy diet but are total couch potatoes, whereas others eat a lot […]

Cellulite Cures: Why “Losing Weight’ Might Not Get Rid Of Hateful Cellulite
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Cellulite cures are a subject of intense interest in our society because we all know people like Bruce – or we ARE Bruce – who was 40 pounds overweight on the day of his 65th birthday. Bruce hated the appearance of his body, covered with the dimpled fat called "cellulite" and desperately sought a method […]

Are Online Weight Loss Groups Valuable?
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Most people who are interested in losing weight have, at one time or another, thought about joining some sort of weight-loss program. They’re everywhere of course, from Weight Watchers, to Overeaters Anonymous to programs at the local health spa. But most people are busy and feel like they don’t have the time to "go" somewhere […]

Milk & Weight Loss: Myth Or Reality?
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Are milk and weight loss truly kissing cousins? Recent claims by the dairy industry would make it appear so. Headlines loudly proclaim "Milk: The Weight Loss Miracle Drink" and stars posing for ads with a milk moustache include Glenn Close, Mariska Hargitay and Sheryl Crow. The most recent campaign includes a fabulous picture of Brooke […]