Diets and Weight Loss

You Can Have Your Chips and Eat Healthy, Too
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Even if you usually snack on apples and carrots, some occasions just don't seem complete without chips, dips, and other challenges to wise diets. But there are ways to have your chips and eat healthy, too.

Losing Weight Safely
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Though millions of Americans are dieting at any given time, obesity in this country is on the rise. What's the reason for this seeming paradox? Is there any safe way to take weight off and keep it off?

Vegetarian Diets : Precautions
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
It's generally agreed that to avoid intestinal discomfort from increased bulk, a person shouldn't switch to foods with large amounts of fiber all at once. A sensible approach is to slowly increase consumption of grains, legumes, seeds, and nuts.

Vegetarian Diets
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The desire to reap the benefits of a high-fiber, low-fat diet is just one of the reasons more people are turning to various types of vegetarian diets. Perceiving plant foods as beneficial because they are high in dietary fiber and, generally lower in salt

Food Labels: Making it Easier to Shed Pounds
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In the past, diet-conscious consumers couldn't always count on the food label to give complete nutrition information. Now that's changing. Weiss has learned that label information can play an important role in weight management.

Guide to Fats : Triglycerides and VLDL, Dietary Fat and Cholesterol
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
LDL-cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol act differently in the body. A high level of LDL-cholesterol in the blood increases the risk of fatty deposits forming in the arteries, which in turn increases the risk of a heart attack.

Guide to Fats
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Is margarine better for your blood vessels than butter? Is dousing your salad with olive oil wise? Is it true what they say about omega fatty acids? The latest in fat science gives some of the answers.

Dietary Supplements: Making Sure Hype Doesn't Overwhelm Science
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Most vitamin and mineral supplements pose no safety concerns. But the risks of many other dietary supplements, such as herbs, animal gland extracts, and amino acids, are a mystery - which FDA is trying to solve.

Teens: Diet Pills
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A number of products (Cal-Ban 3000, Cal-Lite 1000, Cal-Trim 5000, Perma Slim, Bodi Trim, Dictol 7 Plus, Medi Thin, Nature's Way, and East Indian Guar Gum) were also recalled because they posed serious health risks.

Teens: Should You Go On a Diet?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Not all teens who go on diets need to lose weight, but some overweight adolescents have legitimate health concerns. How do you know when going on a diet is a good idea and what's the best way to do it?

Vegetarian Diets : Can Veggies Prevent Cancer?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The National Cancer Institute states in its booklet Diet, Nutrition & Cancer Prevention: The Good News that a third of cancer deaths may be related to diet. The booklet's Good News is: Vegetables from the cabbage family (cruciferous vegetables) may

Vegetarian Diets: The Pluses and the Pitfalls
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Many people are attracted to vegetarian diets. It's no wonder. Health experts for years have been telling us to eat more plant foods and less fat, especially saturated fat, which is found in larger amounts in animal foods than plant foods.

Never Say Diet? : Are All Calories Created Equal?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
This study supports the much-debated set point theory, which holds that inner mechanisms set a person's weight at a predetermined level and if anything is done to change the weight, the body will adjust to restore fat content to the set point.

Never Say Diet?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Trying to lose weight is more complicated than previously thought:Heredity may play a large role, repeatedly losing and regaining weight may be more dangerous than staying fat, and calories from some foods may put weight on faster than others.

Modified Fast: Overweight Problem
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Overweight is a hefty problem in the United States. It's estimated that 24 percent of men and 27 percent of women in this country about 34 million adult Americans are obese. And sometimes it seems that there are 34 million different diets or diet products

Nutrition: When Teens Take Over the Shopping Cart
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Now that her mother works an evening job in addition to her full-time day job, 18-year old Dionna Parker is the brains behind the family grocery shopping. Di?Onna makes more meals at home for herself than her mother does.

Obesity and Cancer
by National Cancer Institute
During the last two decades, the percentage of overweight and obese adults and children has been steadily increasing. Lack of physical activity is strongly associated with obesity.

Managing Eating Problems During Cancer Treatment
by National Cancer Institute
All the methods of treating cancer - surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and biological therapy (immunotherapy) - are very powerful. Although these treatments target the fast-growing cancer cells in your body, healthy cells can

Diet Hints for Cancer Patients
by National Cancer Institute
Your diet is an important part of your treatment for cancer. Eating the right kinds of foods before, during, and after your treatment can help you feel better and stay stronger. A registered dietitian is your best source of information about your diet.

Part 1
It Was Food vs. Me ... and I Won
by Nancy Goodman
It's not like the bagel was fresh. It was discarded. It wasn't sitting on a plate with garnishes of lettuce, cream cheese, or tomato. It was on the car floor. It wasn't that I had no other options, like the homeless who scrounge for any available food