Category — Diet Reviews

Fast food chains and weight loss companies are not supposed to get along, let alone collaborate. This week in New Zealand and Australia, Weight Watchers and McDonald’s have announced they are teaming up to offer weighted meals based on the Weight Watchers point system. Talk about a marketing ploy! In the past, Weight Watchers always offered their members a point system for typical fast food meals such as KFC, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, etc… [Read more →]

Last week, Dr. Alejandro Junger was on The Martha Stewart Show to promote his diet book, Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself The diet is a detox diet that eliminates modern foods that are processed, pumped with chemicals and unnatural. Dr. Junger’s detox diet focuses on fresh fruits and veggies that will flush out the left over chemicals from the previously consumed processed foods. Unger argues that many common ailments such as colds, allergies, depression and insomnia can be cured by eliminating the toxic buildup in the human body. [Read more →]

The O2 Diet book has only been on the market for a couple of months but it’s proving to be a good pick for those wanting a healthy and sensible diet option. The author, Keri Glassman, is a nutritionist that advises Ok! magazine, she’s a contributor for CBS’s The Early Show and she has a huge following of supporters in the media industry that have supported her work. [Read more →]

Athletic shoe company Asics has come up with a brilliant new running shoe for the ladies of the exercise world. It’s about time! The ASICS Women’s Gel-Kayano 16 Running Shoe has been designed to change its shape depending on the woman’s hormone levels.

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Celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak has got a great new book The 5-Factor World Diet out that gives international tips on diet and weight loss. Keep in mind that this is the guy who has trained the likes of Milla Jovovich, Jennifer Hudson and has already written best sellers. Other global diet fads and books such as the Viking Diet, the Mediterranean Diet or the book, French Women Don’t Get Fat, just focus on one part of the world. Pasternak took a different approach and he’s got 120 global recipes plus tips from around the world. [Read more →]

It’s little known in Hollywood circles, but I’m sure it won’t be long before a celebrity attaches his or her name to a new Scandinavian diet, the ‘Viking Diet’. And similar to the ‘Jesus Diet’, it advocates Mediterranean foods like fish, dairy, olive oil, fruits and veggies, unrefined carbohydrates and white bread. [Read more →]

Weight Watchers International has had enough of the Jenny Craig weight loss ads that they see as misleading and deceptive. Weight Watchers decided to file suit after Jenny Craig released ads referring to a study that compared a typical Weight Watchers weight-loss program to a Jenny Craig pre-packaged meal system. Being that the two companies offer two very different types of dieting it makes sense that Weight Watchers isn’t happy about this, especially since the study supposedly doesn’t exist. In the ad Valerie Bertinelli is dressed in a lab coat and says, [Read more →]

Is it possible the Subway guy Jared has met his match? Taco Bell’s new spokesperson, Christine Dougherty, says she lost 54 pounds over a two-year time period by eating the ‘Fresco’ menu items offered at the fast food chain restaurant. According to the company the Fresco items,

“can help with calorie reductions of 20 to 100 per item compared to corresponding products on our regular menu.”

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It’s about time the markets find something for guys to hide the spare tire they carry around the middle, aka the beer belly. Women prance around in Spanx or even the cellulite-busting panties PeachBody in hopes of hiding the lumps and bumps on their saddle bags. But now, men can get a piece of the action too with Bodymax; a line specifically designed for the male body and all of its flaws.

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Talk-show host Rachael Ray debuted a new diet on her show last week – the 400 Calorie Fix. As the name suggests, this new diet (created by Prevention magazine’s editor-in-chief Liz Vaccariello) is based on calorie counting/controlling.

Inspired by a column in Prevention magazine, the basic gist of the diet is that you may only consume 4 meals a day, each consisting of 400 calories. So essentially you’re eating 1 600 calories a day, no more and no less.

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