The Never-Ending Diet Wars
A new study reports that the Atkins diet can be just as healthy as a low-fat diet. But don't start buying bacon yet. This research has some serious flaws.
A new study reports that the Atkins diet can be just as healthy as a low-fat diet. But don't start buying bacon yet. This research has some serious flaws.
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 07.12.2008 | Living
When a Western doctor sticks a tongue depressor down your throat and tells you to say; "Ahhh," he's using one of the five senses to observe throat red...
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 06.14.2008 | Living
Watch Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent talk about diet disasters on ABC's GMA Now. For the full segment, go here. ...
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living
It is daunting isn't it? The amount of information is overwhelming. It's everything from diet books to weight loss blogs, from websites devoted to w...
Zem Joaquin | Posted 06.02.2008 | Green
Raising animals for food is a key contributor to the most serious environmental problems -- i.e. climate change, land degradation, air and water pollution, loss of biodiversity and water shortages.
Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living
There have been multiple HuffPo posts about PETA's efforts to convince former Vice President Al Gore to advocate a vegetarian diet, and we are gratefu...
Donna Fish | Posted 05.12.2008 | Home
Now that is what we like to hear, right?! It's not our fault! We knew it secretly, anyway, right? Would that it were that simple. Hmmm. Today I...
Donna Fish | Posted 04.24.2008 | Living
If you don't figure out how you approach food and dialogue in your own head, and what works for you, nothing will last.
Donna Fish | Posted 04.09.2008 | Home
Let's take a survey; how much energy, mental and emotional would you say, you spend on average, thinking about food/calories/ your body per day? It wa...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.30.2008 | Living
I'm away with my family and my in-laws on vacation. We do this every spring, and each time we do it, despite the fact that this place is lovely, I see...
Donna Fish | Posted 03.29.2008 | Living
It is quite possible in fact, that the impulse to reach for chocolate, is not just driven by the 'Hallmark Industry', but our biology.
Donna Fish | Posted 03.14.2008 | Home
What on earth does she mean by that, you are wondering to yourself. I know, I know, There are a million diet tips out there, what could this one be?! ...
Donna Fish | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living
I will take on all things related to food and parenting. Your own food, that of your kids. Your partners' food, and how you differ, how you fight.
Jon Wiener | Posted 02.19.2008 | Living
"The problem is that every step of additional processing makes the food less nutritious," he replied. "So they add lots of nutrients back in to the processing so they can make health claims. But they only add what they know is missing.
Posted 02.19.2008 | Home
"The problem is that every step of additional processing makes the food less nutritious," Pollan told me. "So they add lots of nutrients back in to the processing so they can make health claims. But they only add what they know is missing.
Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 02.03.2008 | Living
There's nothing as sad and tacky as a single strand of Mardi Gras beads, but a whole pile of them, gleaming green, gold and purple in the sunlight or streetlight, now that is a thing of beauty to behold.
Evan Handler | Posted 01.22.2008 | Entertainment
There are those fantastically misguided souls -- vegetarians by their own definitions -- who don't consider the muscular tissue of fish or fowl to be "meat."
Peter Clothier | Posted 01.15.2008 | Living
I hereby give myself permission to eat and drink as much and as often as I want to, but undertake to be conscious of the choices I make and aware of their consequences.
BBC News | Posted 10.22.2007 | Living
Trying to cut out all thoughts of your favourite, fattening food may actually make you eat more, claims research. Women who tried to stop thinking ab...
Daily Mail | CLAIRE NEATE JAMES | Posted 10.19.2007 | Living
It sounds like a grotesque form of medieval torture: a punishing, £2,000 detox programme which means no food must pass your lips for nearly three wee...
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Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living