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The science of weight loss

Aug 24, 2016 | Diet Tips, Exercise, Science, Weight Loss

Whether your metabolism is slow or fast, you can lose weight if you know what to do. People often talk about the speed of their metabolism, but do you know what “metabolism” really means?Metabolism ExplainedAbout 70% of the calories you burn each day go toward...

Lose Weight at Work

Jul 18, 2016 | Groups, In the Media, Weight Loss

Lose Weight at Work As reported today on NPR, 60% of employees at companies with wellness programs fail to take advantage of them. iDiet provides weight loss groups to Fortune 500 companies, small companies, and some of the countries most prestigious universities....

Why (Most) Diets Fail

Jul 6, 2016 | Nutrition, Research, Science, Weight Loss

Why (Most) Diets Fail Let’s face it. If the big-name diet plans worked, everyone would already be thin and they’d all be out of business by now. 🙂 Clearly, something isn’t working. The sad fact is, most diets fail, and they can fail you two basic ways: In the short...

How to prepare for successful weight loss

Jul 1, 2016 | Diet Tips, Fiber, Weight Loss

Belly fat, watch out.Globally, consumers spend more than $650.9 billion on weight loss, and that number grows every year, along with our expanding waistlines. It’s not surprising considering that 51% of Americans want to lose weight. But what’s more shocking than...

Illegitimi non carborundum

Jun 19, 2016 | Diet Tips, In the Media, Weight Loss

This post was originally written in June 2016 after a mass shooting event. We have left it online in case it’s helpful to anyone facing a tragedy or stress in the future. During this week of national sorrow, we acknowledge the challenge that stress can cause in...

Dr Susan Roberts awarded the 2016 W.O. Atwater Lectureship

Jun 1, 2016 | In the Media, Nutrition, Research, Science

Dr. Susan Roberts, iDiet author, received the W.O. Atwater Lectureship award at the national nutrition conference in San Diego CA. This is an annual award recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of nutrition, nominated by her colleagues across the nation....

7 Reasons Why You Should Not Do a Cleansing Fast

May 14, 2016 | Diet Tips, fasting, Fiber, insoluble fiber, soluble fiber, Weight Loss

The master cleanse, juice fasting, detoxing, or juice cleansing. No matter what trendy term you apply to it, these weight loss fads are not the amazing way to lose weight and detox or purify yourself that bloggers describe them to be. Your body is perfectly capable of...

Biggest Losers are not Best Losers

May 10, 2016 | Exercise, In the Media, Research, Science, Weight Loss

Recent media coverage of a new study of contestants on NBC’s reality television show The Biggest Loser, published in the journal Obesity, raises serious concerns about drawing conclusions from a single study of 14 individuals, no matter how dramatic the results may...

What is Healthy Weight Loss?

Mar 29, 2016 | Diet Tips, Groups, In the Media, Research, Science, Weight Loss

Here at iDiet, we use phrases such as “healthy weight loss” and “maximum healthy rate” of weight loss. So what does that really mean? Let’s dive deeper.The basic, unavoidable principle of weight loss is to reduce calorie intake below the...

Congratulations Karen!

Mar 28, 2016 | Groups, Testimonials, Weight Loss

This has been life changing for me.“I turned 50 this year and was 25 pounds heavier than I wanted to be. I tried all of the “old” diets that had worked for me in the past, but I didn’t see the scale going down and I was constantly hungry! I started following the iDiet...