The key factor in Zone Diet is the hormonal balance you achieve while eating each skillfully prepared meal. With a food plan comprising an accurate balanced ratio of carbohydrates (40%), fat (30%) and proteins (30%); you actually get to eat foods, which control your body’s insulin production. This means that no meal or snack is forbidden in the Zone Diet and yet you...

Clinical nutritionist Jay Robb created the 3 day Fruit Flush Plan for people who feel they are in need of a detox and are showing signs that may include bloating, fatigue, irritability and carbohydrate addiction. Robb says that by eating specific foods dieters can remove toxins and flush away extra pounds in just three days. He claims that the key to maintaining health...

Flavor Point Diet Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale prevention research center, created The Flavor Point Diet. It is based on medical and behavioral research that suggests that limiting the variety of different flavors in a meal reduces the tendency towards overeating. Each type of food is thought to stimulate different appetite centers in the brain. Once a specific...

News flash: You don’t have to overhaul your life to work off mega calories. Here are our eight simple rules for squeezing the most out of your everyday routine to score the silhouette you’ve been sweating for. Rules 1-8 So you think you know the drill on getting a good body. But we’re not after good; we’re after great. Rule #1: Be an early bird...

Unlike other diet books that make big promises, Eat More, Weigh Less, by Dean Ornish, MD, soft-pedals the health claims for this diet for the masses, adapted from his regimen to reverse heart disease. Ornish is well known in the medical community because of his success in reversing blockages to the heart, once thought impossible without surgery or drugs. Ornish also runs...

The news promos show overweight women stuffing Oreos and giant Mrs. Fields cookies in their mouths, while the voiceover says, “Imagine losing 15 pounds a month while eating cookies!! Find out why people are going crazy for the Cookie Diet, tonight, on the six-o’clock news!” That’s right…with February ratings sweeps upon us, the news media...

Cheater’s Diet Alleviates Boredom The Cheater’s Diet by Dr. Paul Rivas and A. E. Tremblay is a refreshing weight loss book that alleviates the boredom of dieting while boosting your metabolism. The Cheater’s Diet is a realistic weight loss plan for people who crave “forbidden” foods while on restrictive diets. With the Cheater’s Diet you are actually encouraged...

Also called “The Dolly Parton diet,” for reasons that are shrouded in mystery, this 7-day diet really does work–in the short term, anyway. And there’s a great purity to it–especially in the summertime when it’s wonderfully refreshing served ice cold. Okay, are you ready? Here we go: 1 head cabbage, shredded or chopped 2 large onions,...

How to choose the right foods and set yourself up for weight-loss success following the Biggest Loser plan By The Biggest Loser Club , This article is courtesy of The Biggest Loser Club online. For more on the diet, or for other weight loss advice, go to www.healthlifes.org The Biggest Loser Diet is a calorie-controlled, carbohydrate-modified, fat-reduced, weight-loss...

The Best Life Diet guides you to develop healthy eating habits and a healthy lifestyle, for weight loss and to maintain a healthy weight. The program does this in 3 phases. Phase 1 – minimum 4 weeks Objective: More activity, establishing meal patterns. Following an initial weigh-in, the diet program stipulates 3 meals (including breakfast) plus at least 1 snack daily,...