Low Fat Diet

Mediterranean diet over low fat? Well, at least it's more fun

2013-02-26 15:39:00

It sounds like a happy hour dream: Now, scientists say,�you can have your wine and eat the nuts that go with it, and be healthier in the bargain. A rigorous new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine should finally put to rest any doubts...

5 Questions: Dr. Dean Ornish on the power of mindful choices

2013-02-23 00:00:00

For more than three decades, Dr. Dean Ornish has been talking about the power individuals have to affect their health, even to the extent of reversing heart disease by changing the way they eat and behave. His prescription for sick people is radical, as...

Jean Harris dies at 89; killer of 'Scarsdale Diet' doctor

2012-12-28 21:14:00

Jean Harris, the onetime headmistress of an elite girls' school whose trial in the fatal 1980 shooting of the celebrity diet doctor who jilted her generated front-page headlines and national debates about whether she was a feminist martyr or vengeful...

Weight loss planned for 2013? Some surveys and predictions

2013-01-03 10:59:00

So here many of us are, pledging as we have before to drop some pounds, get into shape and just generally eat better.� Maybe this year!� How are we going to go about it -- and keep the weight off over the long haul? Surprise: Our choices may not...

It's not just how many calories, but what kind, study finds

2012-06-27 00:00:00

A calorie is a calorie is a calorie — or is it? Maybe not, a small study has found. Once the pounds are shed, the proportions of carbohydrates, proteins and fats you chow down on may determine whether you keep the weight off — or slowly but...

Weight-loss regimens can harm skin

2011-01-30 00:00:00

It's almost February, and with luck and willpower, maybe you're still sticking with that New Year's diet resolution. Or maybe you're still gearing up to start. But although the right diet may help you gain a svelte figure, the wrong one might be a...

Alternative medicine is becoming mainstream

2009-11-09 00:00:00

Leon Wittman tweaked his shoulder in 1994 while attempting to keep his basement from flooding during a thunderstorm by scooping water out of a window well with a bucket. His left arm began to ache. He realized about a year later that he rarely used it...

Blood pressure: weight loss

2010-02-08 00:00:00

As people gain weight, their blood pressure tends to go up. Fortunately, as they lose weight, their blood pressure tends to go down -- but only so far, says Dr. Karol Watson, co-director of preventive cardiology and director of the hypertension clinic...

High-carb diets may put dieters in better moods

2009-11-09 16:32:30

High-fat, high-sugar diet alters bacteria in the gut, making it easier to gain weight

2009-11-11 16:32:30

Low-carb diets may trump low-fat in lowering blood pressure

2010-01-26 16:32:31

Drugs in pre-diabetics do little to slow progression to diabetes or to heart disease, study finds

2010-03-14 16:32:34

A low-fat grilled cheese sandwich. Researchers said Tuesday that a low-fat diet seemed to slow the metabolism more than a low-carb diet. "Insulin is the bad guy," says Dr. Robert Lustig.

2012-06-27 16:49:00

We found this on the Atkins.com site: "A just-released study from Johns Hopkins University has found that dieters that followed a low-carb diet like the Atkins Diet , shed more weight than those on a low-fat diet 10 lbs. more in six months."

2012-05-18 09:33:00