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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Over more than 25 years, Slim-Fast has built a strong case for using meal replacements to lose weight. Multiple studies (some funded by Slim-Fast) show that sipping the company’s shakes or nibbling on its nutrition bars can safely peel away pounds and
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After giving birth to twins, health writer Robin Aronson was twenty pounds too heavy and longing to shed her excess baby weight. So she called upon skinny friend and food writer Melissa Clark, who dines out almost nightly in New York’s best restaurants
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Back in the 1970s, the late Herman Tarnower, a family doctor, cardiologist, and founder of the Scarsdale Medical Center, decided to have his weight-loss diet typed up and mimeographed for patients. Turns out his patients passed those copies on to other dieters,
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Nathan Pritikin first developed the Pritkin program for himself in an effort to battle what his doctors called a case of incurable heart disease. And it worked. Now his son Robert is offering the diet as a way to treat another chronic illness: obesity. The
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Physician Howard Shapiro’s weight-loss regimen has been touted in Vogue and on “Good Morning America”; his clients include top fashion models and business executives. Yet the biggest fans of Dr. Shapiro’s Picture Perfect Weight Loss
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With appearances on public television, 20/20, and Oprah, Nicholas Perricone, MD, is fast becoming one of the country’s most visible skin doctors. Initially, his advice in such best-selling books as The Wrinkle Cure (Warner Books, 2001) and The Perricone
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It’s still a low-cal diet with its own line of packaged foods, but today’s NutriSystem plan is different from what it was 10, 20, or 30 years ago. These days, the emphasis is on choosing “good carbs” over bad ones, using a ranking system
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Fields of sunflowers, miles of coastline, and spectacular scenery make the Mediterranean a popular travel destination. Yet, scientists are beginning to appreciate this part of the world for an entirely different reason: its diet. Dozens of studies confirm
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