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Vitamin C and a high protein diet can help you lose weight

Jo Moore — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:46:32 +0000

It is no secret that one of the biggest problems all of us are faced with today is the sheer abundance of information on all topics, including weight loss. It is just too easy for very valuable articles (even those published in prestigious scientific journals) to disappear amongst all the other articles, blogs and advertisements [...]

FDA Warns Against Three More Weight Loss Pills

Carrie Jones — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:47:15 +0000

The FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) is always busy evaluating and testing weight loss products in an ongoing battle to clear the store shelves and on-line stores of dangerous diet pills and weight loss supplements. On 22 December 2008, the FDA issued a press release containing 28 weight loss products to avoid. On the [...]

Macrobiotic Diet Review – healthy weight loss plan but not easy

Sarah Murphy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:54:50 +0000

The Macrobiotic Diet is much more than just a weight loss plan. It is a way of life where followers are guided to adopt a new way of life that integrates physical and spiritual health. The name of the Macrobiotic Diet is derived from the Greek word “macro” meaning large or long, and “bios” [...]

hCG Diet, Simeons Diet and Kevin Trudeau’s Weight Loss Cure: the same dangerous diet

Carrie Jones — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:03:47 +0000

“I’ve heard you can lose 3 pounds a day on the hCG Diet, and that it redistributes fat from your waist, hips and thighs to leave you with a better shaped body without the need for exercise. That is a loss of 21 pounds a week? Does it really work that well and how safe [...]

The Cabbage Soup Diet Review – It Works But

Jo Moore — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:50:37 +0000

The Cabbage Soup Diet is similar in concept to the Master Cleanse Diet. Both of these fad diets work purely because you are consuming far too few calories to provide for your body’s nutritional requirements for an extended period. Both diets are also guaranteed to slow down your metabolism. As soon as you go back [...]

Do prescription weight loss pills actually work

Jo Moore — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:43:35 +0000

Overweight and obese people all over the world have one wish in common: a magic weight loss pill that will help them slim down quickly. Manufacturers and distributors in the weight loss industry make absolute fortunes selling diet pills, and will continue to do so for as long as there are people battling lose weight [...]

Diet Review: Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle and boost you metabolism

Sarah Murphy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:54:04 +0000

The more you research the weight loss field the clearer it becomes that as much as we would have wished it, there just are no quick fixes or wonder drugs available. We have all been there. Every instinct is yelling out that the latest “fast and easy” or “just take a diet pill” weight loss [...]