Background
The Alli Diet Pill is manufactured by the GlaxoSmitheKline Company and approved by the FDA as an over-the-counter weight loss pill, meaning people can get it without a prescription. It was made for overweight adults who want to get rid of those excess pounds, specifically those with a body mass index or BMI of at [...]

Background
The Atkins diet is one of the oldest and the most effective of the many diet plans that have come after it.  If you haven’t already been on it yourself, you probably know someone who has.  Most people are attracted to this diet plan because of the fact you can and should eat foods like [...]

Background
The Best Life Diet program was developed by physiologist and best-selling author Bob Greene. It has been highly regarded by nutritionists because of its honest and basic approach to nutrition and exercise.
The Best Life program points out that losing weight should not be the only objective but also the having the purpose to maintain an [...]

Background
What do you get if you take Dr. Caroline J. Cederquist, M.D., weight loss, and delicious chef prepared food? Yes, you get an innovative weight loss program called Bistro MD. The Bistro MD Diet program has been founded on the belief that a diet plan need not be tasteless to be healthy. It could be [...]

Background
Men and women, young and old alike, are putting a premium on what matter most these days. They have addressed the environment issues. They have addressed the climate-change issues. They have addressed health issues. All these due to the impetus of wanting to live a healthier, happier and better lives.
In connection to health [...]

Background
The world of diet pills has seen the infusion of a host of new natural weight loss pills in the market. All of them have one thing in common and that they promise to take care of your weight loss problem and that too without your working into a sweat. Whether this is good or [...]

Background
The evidence of a health-conscious mindset are the populated gym, spas and the different health products sold in the market. It is also evident that people from different walks of life value health these days because of the kind of food they consider buying and the physical activities they are engaged with. Young [...]

Background
“Remember to eat before you become hungry” is the Chefs diet way of inspiring its customers. Chefs Diet is one of the many diet food home delivery companies. The program consisting of three meals and two snacks are based on what is known as the Zone program. It promotes lean body [...]

Background
Diet-To-Go has been providing customized menu plans that are based on customer preferences and goals for over 15 years. Whether their goal is lo lose weight or maintain a healthy lifestyle, customers can choose from a variety of food options prepared by dietitians and chefs. This ensures customers that they’re getting a regulated amount of [...]

Background
Dr. Barry Sears is the man behind The Zone Diet. At the heart of The Zone Diet is the foundation that the consumption of carbohydrates, protein, and fat must occur in the ratio of 40%/30%/30%. This, according to The Zone Diet will give a human body the proper intake of calories. The diet in point [...]

BACKGROUND
Are you one of those who have tried losing weight but failed? Why not try again? There are those who have tried almost everything just to achieve the weight they have in mind. They considered options from a meal-based dietary program to a lifestyle-based dietary plan. Others have opted for diet supplements. [...]

Background
“No pain and no gain” does not seem to have a place in the program of diet food home delivery business. This scheme makes it more accessible for people to really shape up and lose weight. No more excuses of not having the ample time to pick up healthy food in the grocery. [...]

Background
The Glycemic Impact Diet (GI Diet) is currently regarded as one of the most recommended weight loss plans available for dieters. It offers a simple and healthy guide to losing weight. It was developed by Rick Gallop and is now being offered by providers of online weight loss and diet plans like eDiets. eDiets is [...]

Background
Whatever comes from outside cannot make a person unclean since it enters not the heart but the stomach and is finally passed out.  This statement changed the whole tradition of food history so to speak.
However one may view the statement, whether categorically or figuratively,  for the heart smart diet, it is proposed that whatever food [...]

Background
Don’t Eat Cookies. You have always been told that delectable items like cookies are a strict ‘NO’ if you are planning to lose weight. Well the Hollywood Cookie Diet has turned these words right around the head and now you can have your cookie and eat it too. Figuratively, Literally, and Practically!
The name ‘Hollywood Cookie [...]

Background
No, it’s not the name of an exotic magician or a dancer, but is a wholly natural diet pill that is fast becoming popular amongst over-weight people, who want a quick fix solution for their obesity. The pill affects the hypothalamus of the brain and sends out a signal that restricts the hunger pangs of [...]

Background
Hydroxycut, a popular diet pill, has been on the market for several years.  It came out during the ephedra craze when it seemed that everyone was using ephedra to lose weight.  Unfortunately because ephedra caused serious side effects it was banned by the FDA.  However, that didn’t stop Hydroxycut which came out with an ephedra-free [...]

Background
The Hypoglycemic Diet or low-sugar diet aims to normalize blood sugar levels, thus also normalize certain hormones associated with symptoms like mood swings, anxiety and depression. The diet is also referred to as the ‘natural diet’ and similar to the nutritional hypoglycemic treatment plan. Low-sugar diet should be introduced gradually and is not meant to [...]

Background
Jenny Craig is a nutrition, fitness and weight loss program that is offered through Jenny Craig, Inc. which in turn is a part of Nestle. The Jenny Craig program addresses the three core issues of food, body, and mind when it comes to weight loss. It seeks to foment a healthy relationship with food, propagates [...]

Background
When people talk about the reality television show, ‘The Biggest Loser,’ the name Jillian Michaels always come to peoples’ minds. She‘s known as the no-nonsense and tough trainer with her driving methods that pays off with tremendous results. That is also the reason why the public became interested on her online program, along with a [...]

Background
“Sweets for my sweet, sugar for my honey,” as the song goes. A lactose-free diet means eating foods that have no lactose. Lactose is a sugar disaccharide composed of glucose and galactose. The main source for this is milk. A lactose-free diet makes you sing no sweets for my sweet, no sugar [...]

Background
Medifast is being promoted as the new age weight loss program which does not ask you to go through the regular motions of a diet plan, like counting calories, cooking and shopping for products. All you need to do is join the program and let the consultants and experts at Medifast do the rest. It’s [...]

Background
The Mediterranean Diet was first publicized in 1945 by Dr. Ancel Keys, a medical doctor stationed in Salerno, Italy, and has only gained popularity in the 1990’s. The diet’s nutritional model was based on traditional dietary patterns from some countries in the Mediterranean, particularly Southern Italy, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Turkey and Spain.
Studies show that people [...]

Background
The history of the Negative Calorie Diet came from a Physical Readiness Training Coordinator from the US Navy. It was widely used to get new Army, Marines and Navy recruits into shape. According to their research, some food required a greater amount of energy to be consumed by the digestive system than the amount of [...]

Background
As a child we were taught to eat like a king at breakfast; eat like a prince at lunch and eat like a pauper by dinner. We have the orientation for a three-meal-a-day paradigm.
The New Lifestyle diet is a protein-based meal replacement of the healthy meals. Other diet plans focus on carbohydrates for [...]

Background
Nutrisystem nourish diet is another weight loss program that confirms to the long line of diet programs that offer diet food on delivery. Nutrisystem puts focus on the glycemic index of the diet and is a combination of exercise and frequent smaller portioned meals. All this would lead to hunger reduction and this has been [...]

Background
Optifast is a liquid-based diet replacing the ordinary meals. Optifast reminds me of this movie I have seen about an athlete preparing for his event. He takes in this meal in a glass before he takes off. He mixes this concoction of healthy foods. He puts everything into the blender. And his energy drink is [...]

Background
Are you one of those people who have health problems? Is your health concern regarding losing weight and keeping fit? Well, you are not alone. A lot of people now a days are preoccupied with the challenge of keeping their bodies trimmed and fit. However, losing weight is a difficulty and a [...]

Background
The Rosedale Diet was created and developed by Dr. Ron Rosedale. Dr. Rosedale is a renowned expert in nutrition and metabolic medicine and anti-aging specialist. He is also the founder of the Rosedale Center in Denver and the Carolina Center of Metabolic Medicine in North Carolina and the co-founder of the Colorado Center of Metabolic [...]

Background
The Scarsdale Diet was created in the 1970’s by a cardiologist, Dr. Herman Tarnower and Samm Baker. This plan was introduces in a book they have written entitled “The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet.” It gives several scientific data to support the effectiveness of this diet plan and also lays out a historical perspective on the [...]

Background
The Slim Fast Optima Diet which is also known as Slim-fast Meal Plan may be categorized with the other dietary schematization of having an energy shake or bar to replace the value of a particular meal or food.  I may give away what generation I belong but these diet shakes and bars remind me of [...]

Background
The Sonoma Diet was inspired by two key elements. The first is California’s Sonoma County, where healthy eating and active lifestyle are highlighted; and the second is the Sonoma cuisine, which is a reflection of the way of eating by the Mediterranean people.
Sonoma Diet was founded based on the Mediterranean Diet emphasizing on the consumption [...]

Background
If you are looking for a diet that teaches you how to change the balance of the food that you eat everyday and will have you eating healthier than you ever have, then the South Beach Diet may be for you.  With this diet you are getting rid of the bad carbs and bad fats [...]

Background
This diet plan that is made just for men has become quite popular with men who are looking to eat healthier and build their muscles.  It is an online program that is very easy to use and works to help men of all body types achieve the 6-pack that they are looking for.   It is [...]

Background
The peer trainer community swears by Judith Beck’s ‘The Beck Diet Solution’. This diet is founded on a form of psychotherapy called Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Yes, it’s complex, and not easy to understand. The focus of the diet is primarily on the inter-relation of thought, feeling, and acting. The concept behind The Beck Diet Solution [...]

Background
When NBC decided that they were going to start filming a reality television show in which overweight contestants would eat right and exercise to lose weight, even they thought it was a big crazy.  But it worked, and not only did the first contestants lose weight and keep it off, but millions of people around [...]

Background
Old and young people from different walks of life are now valuing their health more than ever. People are now aware of the various diseases and illnesses which can plagued any time if the immune system is weak. People are now recognizing the competitiveness of the contemporary world and how fitness really affects one’s self-esteem [...]

Background
Duke Diet & Fitness Center has been providing effective and safe weight loss programs since 1969. An addition to their commitment to help people lose weight is their online diet program. These world-renowned experts are now sharing their weight-loss strategies to a wider audience. Their program is primarily based on a proven weight-loss plan made [...]

Background
There are a number of books out there in the market that profess to offer the best of diet plans which enable you to lose weight. Tosca Reno, a diet expert has come out with her own book titled the ‘Eat Clean Diet’, which, as you can guess, asks people to eat clean. There are [...]

Background
The Fat Flush Plan is actually a diet program in a book by Ann Louise Gittlman. She is an expert in nutrition and detoxification diets. The Fat Flush Plan can be broken up into three core parts or categories that not only go a long way in detoxifying a dieter’s body but also give their [...]

Background
Dr. Leo Galland is the creator of the Fat Resistance Diet. This doctor is an expert in the filed of nutritional medicine and as such the quality and efficacy of this diet goes up a few notches because of his credentials.
The concept of the diet is based on the fact that the hormones whose core [...]

Background
The reality TV program the Celebrity Fit Club being aired on VHI is very popular these days. Who wouldn’t want to watch overweight Hollywood celebrities, lose weight while going through a series of challenges, all related to the process of weight loss! The program is entertaining to the core and is hosted by star trainers [...]

Background
The Flat Belly Diet is a product from the stable of a popular health magazine called ‘Prevention’. The magazine says that the diet plan mentioned, is in fact the essential secret of having that glorious flat tummy and what’s more they claim that the success rate for The Flat Belly Diet is 91%.
So how did [...]

Background
At times, there comes a diet that has no pretensions and is simplicity itself. On closer inspection you find that it’s very innovative as well! The No ‘S’ diet plan is one such diet plan that looks like it has a lot going for it. There is no calorie counting in this diet plan and [...]

Background
The UltraSimple diet plan is actually a book written by Dr. Mark Hyman who is also the author of the best-seller ‘Ultrametabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss.’ The full name of the book, which gives information about the UltraSimple diet plan is ‘The UltraSimple Diet: Kick-Start Your Metabolism and Safely Lose Up to [...]

Background
Type 2 Diabetes Diet is a response to people who are suffering from Type 2 Diabetes. To delve further into the diet program, it is noteworthy to give us an overview of what Type 2 Diabetes is all about.
What is Type 2 Diabetes? This is a common-form of diabetes which is non-insulin dependent. It [...]

Background
Green tea, its extract and its derivatives have been used in the pursuit of healthy living, for centuries. Moreover, Green tea has long been used by practitioners of medicine to cure various diseases. In China, the tea was thought to have miraculous properties and people drink green tea to this day for health purposes. With [...]

Background
Weight Watchers has over 45 years of reputable experience in delivering well-managed and safe weight loss programs. It is most famous for its balanced and well-established lifestyle programs with a focus on healthy living rather than just mere dieting. Thus, the emphasis is controlling the portions and eventually losing weight in moderation. The approach endorses [...]

Background
You guessed it right, the first time. This tea has Chinese origins. The origins date back to around 400 years. If the name Wu-Yi is unfamiliar to you then you might be familiar with its other name which is Oolong tea. The Wu-Yi Tea gets its name from Mt Wuyi Shan in the Chinese Fujian [...]