Diets and Weight Loss
184 Articles & Excerpts
Reclaim Your Waist, Hips, Thighs, and Butt
 The Bathing Suit Workout
by Joyce L. Vedral, Ph.D.
Perhaps warmer weather is approaching, or maybe your planned vacation is coming up soon, but despite the promise of sunshine, you're filled with dread. It's bathing suit time! You picture yourself desperately searching through the stores to find a suit
How a Low-Carb Diet Works
 The Diabetes Diet : Dr. Bernstein's Low-Carbohydrate Solution
by Richard K. Bernstein, M.D.
A low-carb diet is superior for one simple reason: if done according to the guidelines (in this case I am referring to the guidelines in this book), people don't get fat, or don't stay fat, even as they reach the years of the supposedly inevitable
Tips and Hints for Eating Fruit 'til Noon
 Fit for Life: Not Fat for Life
by Harvey Diamond
When first awakening in the morning, it is beneficial to drink a glass of water to wash through the digestive tract. This can have a squeeze of lemon in it or not. All fruit and fruit juice must be fresh. Nothing cooked, canned or processed in any way.
Chapter 1
 The Coconut Diet: The Secret Ingredient That Helps You Lose Weight While You Eat Your Favorite Foods
by Cherie Calbom
Weight Loss Secrets of the Tropics. Healthy, trim, energetic, and alive! That's what you can be when you make The Coconut Diet your weight loss secret.With coconut oil, you can watch the pounds melt away. This secret ingredient has promoted great weight
Four Stages of Breaking an Addiction
 Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
by Caryl Ehrlich
Nowhere do the Four Stages of Addiction come into play more powerfully than they do when you resist changing a habit relating to the foods with which you self-medicate. For most of us those foods are the instant, and easily available - Bread, Beverage
Blood Type and Fertility: A Vital Connection
 Eat Right for Your Baby: The Individualized Guide To Fertility and Maximum Health During Pregnancy, Nursing, and Your Baby's First Year
by Peter J. D'Adamo, N.D., Catherine Whitney
Fearly in my practice as a naturopath, I discovered, almost by coincidence, that when my female patients followed the correct diet for their blood type, fertility increased dramatically. Even women with long-standing fertility problems, including repeated
What Happens If I Don't Eat or Eat Too Much Protein?
 Fire Up Your Metabolism : 9 Proven Principles for Burning Fat and Losing Weight Forever
by Lyssie Lakatos, R.D., Tammy Lakatos Shames
Some clients come to us wondering why they always seem to be hungry shortly after finishing their meals. Actually, 'ravenous' is the word they use. They claim that this hunger causes them to snack excessively and to consume extra calories.
The Ritual of Food Addiction
Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
by Caryl Ehrlich
If you've been trying to figure out the weight-loss game for as long as I've been coaching people - twenty five years - you've most likely been trying to avoid food, even though that point of view has not worked.
Dietary Principles for Reversing Diabetes
 Reversing Diabetes Cookbook : More Than 200 Delicious, Healthy Recipes
by Julian M. Whitaker, M.D., Peggy Dace
Diabetes is a condition marked by elevations in blood sugar. Therefore, a therapeutic diet for people with diabetes is one that helps keep blood sugar levels on an even keel, and that is exactly what the recipes in this book are designed to do.
Why a Low-Carb Diet Is the Only Answer for Diabetics
The Diabetes Diet : Dr. Bernstein's Low-Carbohydrate Solution
by Richard K. Bernstein, M.D.
AND A VERY GOOD ANSWER FOR EVERYONE ELSE: In its March 30, 2001, edition, the respected journal Science published "The Soft Science of Dietary Fat," by Gary Taubes. The article was not in the strictest sense groundbreaking.
Why the Diabetes Diet Is Superior
The Diabetes Diet : Dr. Bernstein's Low-Carbohydrate Solution
by Richard K. Bernstein, M.D.
It's arguable whether any of the low-carbohydrate diets in the bookstores today is ideal for nondiabetics. But I can say that none of them is ideal for diabetics. Most of them depend heavily on the glycemic index, which is a subjective rather than
What if I Have a Slow Metabolic Rate?
 Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Your body weight may be affected slightly by genetics, but that effect is not strong. Furthermore, I am convinced that inheriting a slow metabolic rate with a tendency to gain weight is not a flaw or defect but rather a genetic gift that can be taken
Putting New Muscle into Weight Loss
 Strong Women Stay Slim
by Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., Sarah Wernick, Ph.D.
I'm a scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. For the past ten years, our laboratory has studied the health benefits of strength training. My particular research has shown that strengthening exercise
Recipes From The Chili Pepper Diet
 The Chili Pepper Diet: The Natural Way to Control Cravings, Boost Metabolism and Lose Weight
by Heidi Allison
Permanent weight loss and great health can be found in the produce section of any grocery store. Not just a source to spice up salsa, chili peppers can curb the appetite, reduce unhealthy cravings, increase metabolism, reduce hypertension and even enhance
To Avoid Overeating on High-Calorie Foods, Fill Up on Nutrient-Rich Ones
Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
An important corollary to the principle of limiting high-calorie food is that the only way for a human being to safely achieve the benefits of caloric restriction while ensuring that the diet is nutritionally adequate is to avoid as much as possible those
Molten Chocolate Cake with White Chocolate Lava
 Somersize Chocolate
by Suzanne Somers
LEVEL TWO Makes 6 servings. Your friends will be impressed by this one; These divine individual chocolate cakes have a gooey surprise inside-a river of white chocolate lava! 6 ounces or 1 1/4 SomerSweet Dark Chocolate Baking Bars (37 1/2 squares), chopped
The New Biology of Health
 The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health
by Robert O. Young, Ph.D., Shelley Redford Young
A new day is dawning. A day of truly holistic health, vitality, and well-being. A time of energizing our very cells, maximizing the life force of our bodies. An era of naturally lean and strong physiques!
Introduction
 Binge Breaker! Stop Out-of-Control Eating and Lose Weight
by Dr. Peter M. Miller
It's 2:00 A.M. Is a carton of ice cream calling your name? If you find yourself eating more than you know is healthy-perhaps while standing over the sink in the middle of the night-you may be suffering from Binge Eating Disorder, which affects nearly
Unrealistic Expectations
Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
by Caryl Ehrlich
Weight gain is an evolutionary process. Some people call it creeping weight. The scale turtles inexorably upward - a tight skirt, a belt notch, a can't-zip-up-my-pants inch at a time. Yet you expect the scale to go down as rapidly as a high-speed
Body Image
Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss
by Caryl Ehrlich
What do you look like? How big (or small) are you? How tall (or short)? How much do you weigh? When I ask participants how much they weighed when they were teenagers, I hear this lament: They thought they were very heavy, but when they look at those old
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