How Effective is Diet Powder You Sprinkle on Food?
It sounds like another fad diet promising unrealistic and unattainable results: sprinkle a little of this special diet powder on your food, and you can lose up to five pounds a month. While five pounds a month isn't as extreme as some fad diets claim, it still seems hard to believe that sprinkling a supplement on your food could help lose weight. Yet that's exactly what the creators of the the sprinkle diet claim. Is this yet another fad diet attempting to trick...
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Detox and cleansing diets are all the rage these days. Savvy marketers of weight loss programs know that we're constantly bombarded by messages that our environment is unhealthy; from BPA in plastic bottles to insecticides in our crops, it seems like every day we hear about new toxic chemicals that have the potential to cause a host of diseases. The green and organic movements developed as a more "natural" response to this constant threat of contamination, and now some fad...
Read More...About hCG Diet: Myth or Reality?
One of the more recent fad diets to surface, especially on the internet, is the hCG diet. It has all the makings of a classic fad diet: it promises a quick fix to weight loss problems (even for severely overweight individuals), it requires little or no exercise, and it relies on a "magic" substance that promotes hCG weight loss. The diet is based on the use of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a hormone found in the urine of pregnant women. If that doesn't set off some...
Read More...The Joy Bauer Diet Review
[success] Joy Bauer, the resident nutritionist for NBC's The Today Show, brings her expertise to the weight loss arena. The weight loss plan focuses on four different phases of losing weight, from the crucial first week to maintaining a successful goal weight. Like many popular weight loss plans, the Joy Bauer Diet has an online presence, complete with menu suggestions, tracking tools, recipes and a support community. [/success] Diet The Joy Bauer Diet food...
Read More...South Beach Diet Review
Overview [success] The South Beach Diet is based on the theory that carbohydrates and sugars are the biggest culprits when it comes to weight gain. In this weight-loss program you remove almost all sugars and carbohydrates from your diet for two weeks, then slowly reintroduce some of them in limited amounts. The South Beach website includes detailed information about the diet as well as message boards and a buddy system for support and questions. The site also offers a...
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