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Don’t Fall Victim to a Fad Diet – Know What to Look For

It’s getting to be that time of the year… diet season. Right now decorations are going up and people are getting festive by baking and sharing holiday treats for all to enjoy. Right now you aren’t even...

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What Everyone Needs to Know About Carbs

I recently composed an article with all the information you need to know about protein. As we enter the most popular season for dieting, I wanted to arm you with the good side and bad side of carbs,...

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25 Most Popular Diets of 2008

In 2008, diet-related searches online continued to be a hot topic. It seems Americans are wising up about their health and making more of an effort to get fit to reverse the concerning obesity epidemic...

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Avoid 12 Common Diet Mistakes

It’s likely that you’ve been on a diet at one point in your life. And everyone can easily name a few friends or family members who’ve been on one. Did you succeed? Did they? Or did you find yourself...

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HCG Diet: Look Elsewhere for Weight Loss

UPDATE: See our interview: hCG Diet Reviewed by FullBar’s Dr. Michael Snyder You won’t see me promoting quick fixes or fad diets anytime soon. But every once in awhile something comes along that seems...

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Jets’ Coach Rex Ryan Follows Extreme Diet to Lose Weight

It used to be that celebrity women were known for the diets they followed. However, with the recent likes of Rush Limbaugh and his success with Quick Weight Loss Centers, NFL’s Mike Golic on...

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Diet Cycling Leads to Anxiety, Overeating, and Withdrawal

As if you needed another reason to avoid dieting, new research shows that the “cycling” on and off of diets can stress the brain’s system and cause anxiety, overeating, and withdrawal. If you’ve ever...

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Taco Bell’s Drive-Thru Diet

It’s one thing when a restaurant like Subway comes out with a “diet plan” (thanks to customer Jared Fogle) when the stores are stocked with fresh vegetables, whole grain breads and lean meats. It’s...

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Extreme Dieting: Now with Parasites?

In many areas of the world, females are under immense pressure to be thin. This pressure is especially intense in Asia, where women always seem to be looking for ways to get skinnier. Experts say...

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Weight Loss Secrets for Swimsuit Season

Summer doesn’t officially start until June 21. But, the weather is starting to warm up, reminding us that it will be swimsuit season soon. Luckily, it’s not too late to lose a little weight before you...

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Baby Food Diet Hot with Celebrities

Just when you thought you heard it all in diet fads, here comes the Baby Food Diet. That’s right, revisit your time as a newborn when all you ate was jars of whipped sweet potatoes, and mixed vegetable...

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Jaime Pressly Goes Bananas After Pregnancy

Jaime Pressly is best known to most people for her role as the crazy, albeit frickin’ hilarious, piece of white trash Joy from “My Name is Earl.” And, while she was just playing a role, her recent...

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Cyclist Promotes Pizza as Health Food and Bikes From Florida to NYC

Who doesn’t love pizza? If you add tons of veggies, limit the cheese and meat toppings, and make the pie from a whole-grain crust, then you have yourself a health food. Kind of. Cyclist and Florida...

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7 Craziest Diets of All Time

Dieting is basically a modern phenomenon. But it has been around for centuries, in one form or another. Throughout history, there have been plenty of crazy diet ideas. Here are but a few, in no...

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7 Celebrity Fad Diets

Oh, Hollywood celebrities… their lifestyles are just as wild as their eating habits. And, all of us who closely follow their lives in the pages of Us Magazine and TMZ are just as wacky, especially when...

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The Worst Diets of All Time

UPDATE: October 29th, 2010, Judge Rick Brown found Kimkins Diet founder Heidi Diaz guilty of fraud and false advertising. Losing weight can be a long difficult process, even though we all know the...

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New HCG Drops Claim to Have No Side Effects

Injections might have once deterred some from taking hCG, but the hormone is now easy to swallow in drop form. One hCG drop producer, Pure HCG Diet, recently suggested on PRWeb that their product...

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Jets’ Coach Rex Ryan Weight Loss Inspiration to His Players

As we reported last year, Jets’ coach Rex Ryan is dealing with weight loss in his own way. Last year, he reportedly tried a liquid diet to cut weight from his substantial 350 pound frame. He did not...

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Roundworm Diet Popular with Job Seekers

There are a lot of fad diets, but none of them compare to voluntarily ingesting parasites to help you lose weight. This trend is best known as the Tapeworm Diet. When you ingest a tapeworm, it secretes...

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Janet Jackson on Body Image and Extreme Dieting

Janet Jackson appeared on CNN’S Piers Morgan this Tuesday. She spoke candidly about her personal struggles with body image and the dangerous diets that celebrities fall victim to. The interview and her...

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Ancient Humans Ate Grass Based Diet

Some new discoveries about ancient humans shows that grass was the base of their diet instead of nuts, as previously believed. The oldest set of human remains that scientists study is nicknamed the...

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Obese Body Chemistry Makes Dieting Harder

Life isn’t fair and nowhere is that more evident than the findings from a new study. It appears that obese people who begin a diet with drastic changes will often do more harm than good. “When obese...

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Steve Jobs’ Odd Eating Habits Revealed in New Biography

The world is still mourning the death of Apple CEO Steve Jobs while also praising his many contributions to technology. Details of Jobs’ life, including some of his strange eating habits, are making...

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Hoodia Hawker Loses Vacation Home in FTC Settlement

In an unusual settlement, a seller of hoodia supplements has agreed to sell his vacation home in addition to ceasing to make unvalidated weight-loss claims. David J. Romeo and the two companies he...

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4 Fool-Proof Ways to Spot a Weight Loss Scam

By Jason Brick The weight loss industry is so filled with scams that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a guide about recognizing unscrupulous weight loss advertising. The introduction to...

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10 Percent of Women Diet Their Entire Lives

by Kelsey Murray It’s a pretty safe bet to say that most women have been on a diet at least once in their lives. But for 10 percent of women, being on a diet is a part of their daily lives, for their...

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Ear Stapling is Another Unfounded Weight Loss Craze

We’ve all seen people do crazy things to try to lose weight. Eating baby food, Shake Weight, limiting calorie intake, and so much more. But, have you heard of stapling a part of your ear to help lose...

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Why the Master Cleanse is a Horrible Idea

By Dan Kamys for FitandFabLiving.com Recently, a diet known as the Master Cleanse has been coming into the spotlight. Celebrities such as Beyoncé have been known to practice this in order to supposedly...

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Could Cold Temperatures Help You Lose Weight?

Ray Cronise, a former NASA scientist who spent 15 years overseeing experiments aboard shuttles at Marshall Space Flight Center, has been conducting experiments since 2008 to see if cold temperatures...

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Hey Katy and Kelly – Don’t Eat Mushrooms for Your Diet, Make Mushrooms Part...

Mushrooms are absolutely a part of a healthy diet, but they shouldn’t be the focus of a diet. Any time a diet singles out one food to eat exclusively, or vice versa wants you to entirely eliminate one...

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The Cotton Ball Diet is Trending Amongst Young Girls Despite All Logical...

Let’s eat cotton balls so we’ll feel full … to whom did this ever sound like a great idea? Apparently it’s sounding better and better to young girls across the country who are gobbling up the newest...

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Pulp Fiction: Why My Misadventures in Juicing Left Me Feeling Terrible

By Cat Poland, a writer who shares her experiences with life and motherhood at Mom on the Range. You know what’s cute? Baby bellies. Aren’t pregnant women adorable? You know what’s not so cute? Baby...

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Wordless Wednesday: What Waist Trainers Actually Do

via Holly Perkins’ Instagram @hollyperkins

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