Category — Diet Reviews

PETA has one great marketing team; they’ve clothed Cloris Leachman in a dress made of cabbage leaves and de-clothed Alicia Silverstone for a controversial nude PETA ad. However, their latest ad campaign on a Jackonsville Florida billboard doesn’t involve any celebrities but it has meat-lovers in a frenzy. The ad implies that obese women are like whales and if they go vegetarian they will be thin. The text reads as: Save the Whales. Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian.

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Fat Loss 4 Idiots has become a best selling diet program on the internet. I think this is in large part because it gets confused with the “Dummies” and “Idiot” series of books. You know “Weight Loss for Dummies”, “Wine for Dummies”, “Dating for Dummies”, “Skiing for Idiots”, “Dieting for Idiots” and the list goes on. Fat Loss 4 Idiots is not associated with either the “Dummies” or “Idiot” series of books. In fact, you can’t tell who is behind this product at all. That being said, here’s my review… [Read more →]

OMG Fat Loss includes fool-proof diet and fitness strategies you can implement right away to get rid of all you unwanted fat, in addition to a lifestyle behavioral program that will the keep the fat off. It is by far the most value for the money, comprehensive and simple guide you’ll find both online and offline.

It uses the most clinically proven successful weight loss strategies of people who have on average permanently lost over 65 pounds of weight. Why do I know it will work for you? You’ll be interested to know this program has been clinically tested and refined with my own clients and patients.  So, you can be assured that OMG Fat Loss is a practical guide to permanent weight loss for real-world, busy people whether they are eating out, cooking at home, or shopping at the grocery store. [Read more →]

The Truth about Abs is authored by Mike Geary who is a personal trainer and nutritionist. I’m going to spill the beans and let you in on the secret to great abs. It starts with nutrition! So forget the crazy ab machines and routines. It’s what you put in your mouth that counts. As a physician who has reviewed hundreds of diet and weight loss programs, in addition to thousands of clinical and scientific studies, I was actually quite impressed by the nutritional information found in Truth About Abs. For the most part it was right on. There were a few inaccuracies (dairy for weight loss, soy is fattening etc) but overall I think the nutritional information was spot on and a welcome relief to a lot of the rubbish you find in many diet and weight loss books. [Read more →]

How did Gwyneth Paltrow get the new curves she’s seen sporting on the December cover of Gotham Magazine? Paltrow, whose latest film, Two Lovers, comes out in February, says she owes it all to celebrity trainer and friend Tracy Anderson. The pair have been working together for 2 years, since shortly after the birth of Paltrow’s son Moses.

“It got me to really move my body again. Especially doing the dance aerobics and sweating out all those hormones,” says Paltrow, who boasts that she lost 11 inches in the first 10 days of working out with Anderson. So what is it that makes Anderson’s workouts different from other celebrity trainers? According to Paltrow, she uses a new and more versatile kind of Pilates machine that guarantees results. She also designs a custom exercise program for each client. “A certain number of arm, abdominal, and leg exercises, all done on the machine” and that changes every 10 days”, says Paltrow. [Read more →]

Jessica Alba has lost 25 lbs of the 40 pregnancy lbs she gained, just six weeks after giving birth to daughter Honor, on June 7.  Jessica revealed she “lost the tummy just breast feeding.” With the help of her trainer Ramona Braganza Jessica has a diet and exercise plan to shed the rest… [Read more →]

Christina Applegate, 36, recently underwent bilateral mastectomies for early stage breast cancer. Fortunately, the cancer was detected early with the use of MRI. The star of “Samantha Who?” had tested positive for the BRCA1 breast cancer gene, a risk marker for breast cancer, so she opted for for having both breasts removed to prevent recurrence.

Christina Applegate’s breast cancer battle highlights a growing concern for many American women. Risk Factors for developing breast cancer include: [Read more →]

As you may have guessed, I’m not a fan of Atkins. There’s a lot of misinformation about this diet that a recent study helped clarify… and frankly validates my own beliefs about this controversial diet. First let me first say you will lose weight on Atkins and your cholesterol levels will go down. Sounds good right? Well don’t be fooled.

Consider this. Cholesterol levels will go down as a result of any weight loss period. You could be drinking motor oil to lose weight and your cholesterol will go down so don’t think for a second Atkins is healthy.

A recent study presented at the American Heart Association, corrected for this cholesterol “weight loss” lowering effect. This study involved 18 people, each of whom were put on three different diets for month, and they were carefully monitored so they had no weight loss. The three diets were: Atkins with 50% of calories as fat, South Beach with 30% calories as fat and the Ornish diet with 10% fat. [Read more →]

If you can get past all the shock-jock language such as – you’re a gluttonous pig – you need to exercise you lazy shit – don’t be a pussy – you’ll find that Skinny Bitch offers some good dietary advice. I frankly wasn’t expecting much in the way of sound nutritional advice from the authors who are proudly skinny bitches themselves. Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin are both former models, with Kim holding a degree in holistic nutrition. [Read more →]

The Volumetrics Eating Plan is written by Barbara Rolls a leading authority on weight management and eating behavior at Penn State University. She is best known for her work on “energy density” which is simply calories per given weight of food. What’s so important about energy density you ask? It is the key to understanding how you can eat more and weigh less. Sound too good to be true? [Read more →]