Healthy Weight

Melanocortin System and Obesity

You can’t just dive in and lose weight? Having trouble with being a little overweight? It seems so simple. Eat less and exercise more! Well, not so easy. Which is why we are all getting fatter. Have...

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Jul16

Balance Your Diet, Control Your Weight

Our Standard American Diet (SAD for short!) is anything but nourishing. High in carbohydrates and unhealthy fats, sugars, preservatives and other toxic chemicals, this diet virtually guarantees...

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Mar13

Feel Great: 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health Basics for Women

Are you one of the millions of women who have sought medical help in the past year, only to feel you have been ignored, stereotyped or even ridiculed? Most of us are looking for a diagnosis when we...

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Feb14

FDA Continues Pushing Natural Herb Sweetener Stevia Out of U.S.

Hain Celestial Group Inc., the maker of Celestial Seasonings teas, received a warning from U.S. regulators that some of its powdered drink mixes contain an unsafe herb. Some Celestial Seasonings tea...

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Sep23

The Scary Truth About Sugar

Sugar is a simple carbohydrate found naturally in many foods, including fruits and grains. If the only sugar we consumed were in natural, whole foods, weâ€™d all be just fine. But the average...

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Jun30

A Better Alternative to Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners

Most medical experts would agree that one of the best ways to improve your health is to reduce your sugar intake. Doing this can help decrease one’s chances of getting diabetes and being overweight...

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May13

Jul02

Twenty-One Steps to a Normal Weight

What Doctors Don't Tell You

Not even our three nutritionists completely agree on the best ways to lose weight. But here are the common tips from all three. Eat three full meals a day. Eat small, frequent meals no more than three hours apart if you are a woman or five hours if...

Jul02

Weight Loss and Low Fat Diets

What Doctors Don't Tell You

One of the major risk factors for osteoporosis is being too thin. Once the ovaries stop producing oestrogen, a woman's body keeps on making small amounts of it from subcutaneous fat, especially ab ...

Jul02

ATKINS DIET: The good news, and the bad

What Doctors Don't Tell You

If you're on the Atkins diet, the good news is that you will probably lose weight in the first six months or so. The bad news is that you could start suffering from headaches, muscle weakness, diarrhea or constipation if you aren't already.

Jul02

Diet 2000:The truth behind the most famous health claims

What Doctors Don't Tell You

Just as orthodox medicine operates on received wisdom as to what's good for your health, so does alternative medicine. In our special millenium issue, WDDTY sorts out good claims from bad.

Jul02

Diet 2000: The truth behind the most famous health claims:30 apples a day . . .

What Doctors Don't Tell You

Eating a variety of fruits and vegetables has traditionally been thought of as the best way to get all the nutrients you need. Unfortunately, most of us only eat a limited selection of fruits and vegetables,

Jul02

Diet 2000: The truth behind the most famous health claims:A starved body is a perfect one

What Doctors Don't Tell You

In June 1998, some 25 million Americans went from being a normal, healthy weight to being overweight overnight. Neither Haagen-Dazs nor Ben & Jerry's was implicated in the change.