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OK, if that got your attention, it’s time to get a grip on dieting. We can help. The nutrition gurus at Health.com reviewed more than 50 popular diets, then compared them for safety, effectiveness, expense, and lifestyle factors (like the all-important “Can I drink coffee on this plan?” question). We can’t promise you’ll make your goal weight, but we’ll give you the best guidance we can to help you find a plan you’ll stick to. Good luck!
Durham, North Carolina, is home to a unique live-in weight loss center that one former resident calls “college education” for healthy living. Tagged as Structure House, this 30-year-old facility offers dieters a way to acquire the skills they’ll need to change out-of-whack eating and exercise habits. Read More
Athletes fondly dub it “the Zone.” But author and biochemist Barry Sears, PhD, says dieters can enter this near-euphoric state of maximum performance, too. The key, in a word, is food. Eating a precise combination of protein and carbs at meals places you in a metabolic “zone” in which fat loss becomes automatic and hunger is kept at bay. First introduced in 1995, the Zone regimen has taken a few twists and turns in light of new research about disease-fighting foods such as soy (The Soy Zone, 2000) and pharmaceutical-grade fish oils (The OmegaRx Zone, 2002), as well as the health-compromising effects of blood vessel inflammation (The Anti-Inflammation Zone, 2005). But essentially, the premise of eating to stay “in the Zone” is still the same. Read More
Over the last 40 years, generations of dieters have experienced the weekly weigh-ins and mutual support found at group Weight Watchers meetings. But the diet of today is quite different from that of years past. Weight Watchers International is continually honing its program to stay relevant with dieters in more than 30 countries. Read More
When it first hit the diet scene in 1995, Sugar Busters! rocketed to the number-one spot on the New York Times‘ best-seller list. Written by a former CEO and three physicians-a cardiovascular surgeon, a gastroenterologist, and an endocrinologist-the book has an “eat like your ancestors” philosophy that caught on quickly: zero refined sugar, whole grains, unprocessed foods. Fast-forward eight years to The New Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat (Ballantine Books, 2002). The basics (and the authors) are the same, but there’s new advice on current issues such as childhood obesity and the growing diabetes epidemic, as well as a whole bunch of new recipes. Read More
Putting one foot in front of the other and walking your way to weight loss is the simple and straightforward premise behind The Step Diet, a regimen devised by a group of weight-control experts from the University of Colorado. Instead of counting calories, the idea is to curb eating a bit and count steps. It’s as easy as clipping a pedometer (one is provided with the book) onto your waistband every day. While the book is new, the diet strategy it promotes is not: It’s a well-tested weight-control program that grew out of 25 years of research at the university. Dieters start out walking about a mile each day or what amounts to three 5-minute walks. Eventually the goal is to log 5 miles or 10,000 steps, not necessarily all at once but throughout the day.
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The South Beach Diet has quickly captured the hearts and stomachs of dieters. Because of the buzz it’s been getting at the watercooler and at parties, it’s fast becoming one of the most popular carb-control plans. Developed by Miami cardiologist Arthur Agatston, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Cardiac Prevention Center, the diet is meant to promote weight loss but not at the expense of heart health. Unlike other wildly popular low-carb plans, South Beach calls for keeping tabs on saturated fats and favors lean meats and proteins over bacon, cheeseburgers, and steak. Recently, Agatston came out with a South Beach Diet cookbook. Read More
Since she’s frequently testing recipes or sampling cuisine in exotic locales, cookbook editor and author Fran McCullough knows how easy it can be to put on the pounds. Taking them off is another story. The only method that’s worked for McCullough is one of her own making. In her book Living Low-Carb: The Complete Guide to Long-Term Low-Carb Dieting (Little, Brown, 2000), she provides brief overviews of some popular carb-restricted diets and discusses her opinions on the science behind them. And with her strong culinary background, the author makes low-carb eating enjoyable: The book offers tips on the best-tasting low-carb products and 175 original recipes. Dieters looking for tasty cuisine may already know about McCullough’s 1997 best-seller, The Low-Carb Cookbook (Hyperion) and The Good Fat Cookbook (Scribner, 2003), both of which share healthful ways to use butter, olive oil, and other fats. Read More
It looks as if television actress Suzanne Somers is on her way to becoming a diet diva. At last count there were eight of her diet cookbooks on the market. In fact, Somers is producing these recipe-heavy tomes at a pretty fast clip these days-about one per year. First, it was Suzanne Somers’ Eat Great, Lose Weight in 1996. Then came Suzanne Somers’ Get Skinny on Fabulous Food in 1999. That was followed with a diet-dessert cookbook in 2001, Suzanne Somers’ Fast & Easy in 2002; Suzanne Somers’ Eat, Cheat, and Melt the Fat Away in 2003; and Suzanne Somers’ Slim and Sexy Forever: The Hormone Solution for Permanent Weight Loss and Optimal Living just this year. Basically, the message throughout the books is the same, only the recipes have changed. Somers holds with the philosophy that sugar is the bad guy and that eating fat, even saturated fat, can help with weight loss. Read More
In the late 1970s, dietitian Laurel Mellin developed The Shapedown Program, a highly successful diet plan for overweight adolescents. The Solution (ReganBooks, 1997) is Mellin’s adult version of that program. Mellin, an associate clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, looks at obesity not as a diet and exercise issue but as “another expression of the interaction of mind, body, and lifestyle.” The Solution helps dieters work on curing the six root causes of weight problems, a mixture of these mind, body, and lifestyle issues. A new book, The 3-Day Solution Plan (Ballantine Books, 2005), provides a quick introduction to the program that promises to jump-start weight loss. Read More
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