Tag — Diet Reviews

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 →]

Is this diet for real? You get to sit around on the couch all day watching TV, basically never moving, and still lose weight? Sounds too good to be true if you ask me. But apparently it’s worked for author of the diet book The Couch Potato Diet, Gregory J.E. Ladas. [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 →]

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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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 →]

Harley Pasternak is a celebrity trainer who has penned Hollywood’s hottest diet, The 5 Factor Diet. Some of his clients include Jessica Simpson, Alicia Keys, Eva Mendes, Kanye West, and Mandy Moore. So why 5 Factor? [Read more →]

Alli, “the poop and fart your way to weight loss pill,” now has a diet plan. Written by Caroline Apovian, a physician who is the Director of the Center for Weight Management at Boston University Medical Center, it’s aptly titled “the Alli Diet Plan.” I can sum up the purpose of this book by saying… [Read more →]