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 results may...
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.The basic, unavoidable principle of weight loss is to reduce calorie intake below the...
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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...
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 re-examine what we know about bread and weight...
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 strategy. Most people think of the calorie as an absolute measurement,...
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