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Dr Susan Roberts awarded the 2016 W.O. Atwater Lectureship
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
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…
Biggest Losers are not Best Losers
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…
What is Healthy 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.
Congratulations Karen!
I started following the iDiet plan and I liked the idea that it’s important not to feel hungry while dieting. My whole family is loving the iDiet because the recipes are so delicious.
Bread. To eat or not to eat, that is the question.
How to use the best high-fiber breads for weight control. Now that Oprah has bought 10% of Weight Watchers and is appearing in TV ads saying she is losing weight while eating the bread she loves, it is timely to…
Dieting Beyond the Calorie
Did you know a calorie is not always a calorie once it enters the body? The calorie is a measurement of a unit of energy — the energy contained in food. And it’s at the heart of every weight loss…
Food Shaming is Not Helpful
The recent media attention on “fat-shaming” is fantastic — it is terrible that anyone should be made to feel badly for failing to match an unrealistic standard. Now it is time to give the same support and respect to those…
The Skinny on Fat, Part 1: Moderation is Sexy
Yet another article, this one in the New York Times, weighed in this week on the war over carbs and fats, and appeared to come out strongly favoring high-fat. Here is my take on this issue from my perspective as…
Congratulations Kara!
“iDiet has been one of the best decisions I have ever made for myself in my entire life! After 2 years of struggling to just lose 25 pounds through exercise and traditional diets, the iDiet lifestyle (I still refuse to…