The temptation to go on a fad diet and lose and gain, lose and gain, and lose and gain some more, is overwhelming for celebrities, as well as the rest of us. Want to know what really happens with some of these wild and crazy fad diets?

The number of people on diets has declined by more than 35 percent over the past 21 years, according to a new survey from The NPD Group, a research co...

Although the cabbage soup diet fad has pretty much passed us by, soup as a diet aid should be taken seriously. It is much easier to eat only the amount of food allowed on a diet when the main course is preceded by a bowl of soup.

Every new year starts with a diet, right? Well, here's mine this year: I try not to eat anything white. Before you scoff or laugh, let me explain.

Lately I've been seeing a lot of clients under the sway of yet another new diet trend: the Paleolithic diet.

Raw tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs, baked potatoes and buttermilk, pineapples and lamb chops -- diets based on nothing except hyperbole, false hope, and punishment for the sins of gluttony.