Welcome to the Mayo Clinic Diet that doesn’t come from the Mayo Clinic. This diet is a strange idea that has been floating around for a long time, despite the fact that it is not endorsed by the Mayo Clinic. Once again dieters are face to face with the misleading idea that somehow grapefruit burns [...]

Dieting web sites and dieting plans are so successful that it’s almost a given that anybody can find the perfect free dieting scheme on the internet. Free diet plans are, well, free – you don’t pay anything upfront. But many people don’t trust them having a good reason. The famed “cabbage soup diet” or the [...]

How many calories do you need? Well, that depends on a lot of things. Your age, sex, type of work, physical activity, all come into play. There is no one answer for this type of thing. I have to warn you, I don’t believe the general ideas on how many calories a person should have. [...]

Is there such a thing as being fat, yet fit? Can fat people get away with overeating by keeping their muscles trained and strong? The Mayo Clinic says they can’t. It seems that all those extra pounds mean extra trouble no matter how much exercising is performed each day. Fat is simply not good for [...]

Ever since obesity has been termed as an epidemic, it has attracted attention throughout the world. The air is thick with discussions and counter-discussions about various diet plans being proposed by various people. There is a 5-Factor Diet, Atkins Diet, Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet, South Beach Diet, Cabbage Soup Diet, Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet, Anne [...]

In America Weight Loss has become an industry and every other day some new diet plan is announced. Various dieticians, medical doctors and others have jumped into the fray. Protagonists and antagonists of various diet plans fight it out with claims and counter-claims until some new diet plan comes along to divert the attention. Naturally [...]