Four letter words have a bad rep in our culture and the four-letter-word "diet" is one of the most horrid. So if we're going to undertake this Herculean feat, then at least we want it to be as painless as possible and we want the best results we can possibly get. Hence, these diet reviews […]

We’ve talked a lot about popular fad diets on this blog, but what about SAFE diets? Safe diets aren’t really a major topic of conversation in 21st century America – but diets are. Unfortunately, the ‘safe’ part is mostly overlooked. These days, we have much more information about the proper way to take care of […]

The Grapefruit Diet plan is a popular fad diet for many years (although not for me since I HATE grapefruit!) It’s based on some mystical, magical property that grapefruit is supposed to have in relation to dissolving fat. The grapefruit juice diet has been around for 30+ years and is often identified with the famous […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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.   […]

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. […]

The 3 Day Diet plan is an incredibly strict, very low calorie diet, that is supposed to be followed for no more than three days. Which is a darned good thing since the calories are too low for health. The diet promises a loss of "up to" 10 pounds in those three days. Whenever I […]

The Rice Diet Solution is called a fad diet, and in a way it is but 'fad' refers to a temporary fashion and this diet has been around since 1939. In fact, it's often referred to as the Duke Rice Diet because Duke University created the diet many decades ago. The Duke Rice Diet The […]