Are Statins Worse For You Than A Mediterranean Lifestyle?
This report suggests that the Mediterranean lifestyle is better for you than Statins. According to Professor Giovanni de Gaetano, head of the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention at the IRCCS Neuromed Institute in Italy, “We found that among those with a higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet, death from any...
Top Ten Worst Foods
According to the Center For Science In The Public Interest, these are the worst of the worst of the worst. Not only should you not buy them … not only should you not eat them … you should keep them away from your loved ones!! Notice when you look at...
Audio: Placenta Hormone For Weight Loss? A Review of the HCG diet
On my radio program I speak w Dr Peiter Cohen about the HCG diet — what it is, what it does, and whether it’s worth it. Click Here To Get The Audio ClipDr Cohen is awesome — you’re going to love him. For more information: Click here to visit Will...
Radio Show Today: HCG is a scam
On my radio program today (wmny http://www.wmnyradio.com/business_of_health.aspx, Saturdays at noon), I’m talking with Dr Pieter Cohen about the HCG diet. It is amazing what people will do to themselves, and what they will believe, to lose weight. HCG is a pregnancy placenta hormone Human chorionic gonadotropin or human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) is a pregnancy hormone...
VIDEO: Get Your Fad Diet Flu Shot
Every year it’s the same!! The newest, new REVOLUTIONARY approach, from some new diet guru invites us to magically shed pounds with their wicked-cool fad diet. (please share this video with anyone who is thinking about dieting!) But how do you take your fad diet flu shot? How do you inoculate yourself...
“Fabuless.” Is It Stupendous, or just Stupid?
Fabuless is a vegetable-oil emulsion. You’re supposed to drink it. No kidding! That gives me the gag reflex, just thinking about it. (please share this article with any who are tempted by stupid diet tricks) I can only imagine that a person would take this product either 1) because you’re a part...
Crash dieting can create binge eating
Bad things can be caused by the best of intentions. When you want to lose weight, and you go at it with gusto, with everything you have, you can often be working against your own efforts!! This study in the Journal Neuroscience shows that crash dieting is taken by your...
FDA Data Glut
This article in the New York Times reports on the Food and Drug Administration efforts to encourage manufacturers to post calorie counts on the front of food packages. They also want to standardize serving sizes. That’s a great strategy for the FDA to use to counteract obesity, because there’s...
Hoodia Diet Ads Found Misleading
Here’s the rule. No one over 12 should believe advertisements, especially when they provide miracle cures. The diet product, hoodia, makes the point. A UK company has been told to amend advertising for a hoodia gordonia product. Why? Because they claimed that it could cause you to reduce calorie...
How To Screw Up Your Diet
Americans face every January with renewed resolutions to fight the fat, battle the bulge, handle the love handles. And yet, every year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell us that our obesity rates are increasing. What’s wrong with this picture? We are either the very definition of...
Diet and Fat
We have to confront one of our must cherished notions about weight and health — regarding the dietary demon of fat. This article, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (reviewed in this article), helps to unlinking fat in the diet from fat on your hips. Researchers followed...
Why are American’s overweight?
Diagnosing Our Weight Problems The US government recently announced that Medicare can pay for obesity treatment, officially making excess weight a “disease.” But this gross influenza of the waistline is particularly American. Why is that? A generation ago, American families were thinner while eating eggs, breads, butter, vegetables …...