I suppose we could look on the bright side here; well over 400,000 Brits eat exceptionally well! These rather unflattering findings are the result of a wide-ranging investigation for the Food Standards Agency's National Diet and Nutrition Survey. The results are based on 5 dietary targets set out by the World Health Organization. Let's look at what criteria they...

Early next year, ad men Alex Bogusky and Chuck Porter will release The 9-inch Diet. The premise of the book is: by using a 9-inch plate at every meal, caloric intake can be decreased by 30-35 percent....

Relationships end for a lot of reasons: differences of opinion, growing apart, boredom or good old-fashioned infidelity, but eating habits! Could one partner's change in diet actually kill a romance? It might. "When one person alters that routine, it can unwittingly throw off the balance of the relationship or make the other feel rejected," Cynthia Sass, R.D., co-author of Your...

I'm sure many readers will have experienced a diet that "failed" in the past. These are often ones which you manage to stick with for a few days, even a week or two, then give up on. Usually, the diet was impractical or you just weren't feeling committed to it. Sometimes, though, a diet seems successful: you follow the plan...

A landmark study comparing Low fat, Low carb and Mediterranean diets over a 2 year period has shown low carb and Mediterranean diets to be favorable alternatives to low fat. The study looked at weight loss, blood lipids, glycemic control and inflammation. Let's explore the study details and see what applications may arise from it....

It's not terribly sexy. As diets go, it floats under the radar. It's not promoted heavily by any celebrities and if it were, it wouldn't get much press anyway. It's been permutated, repackaged and resold by diet book authors, and it quietly goes about its business preventing disease, prolonging life, cutting heart disease risk, dodging type II diabetes, curbing Alzheimer's...

A unique and fascinating study has pit the weight loss system giant against a gym membership program. What makes this study somewhat unique is that they tested for body fat percentage in addition to weight and other health benefits. Here's what the University of Missouri researchers found......

Some diets promise extraordinarily fast weight loss - achieved by cutting calorie intake to (dangerously) low levels. If you're ever tempted to follow a Very Low Calorie diet, make sure you know the facts first....

The No-S Diet is the simplest diet I've ever come across. It has just three rules: No snacks No seconds No sweets Except (sometimes) on days that start with an S....

Before I go on, I would like to wish everybody a happy "Break your Diet" day. That's right - as I write this on March 18th, this is the day where the average person who starts a New Years resolution diet breaks it - 78.6 days. Well a newly released survey shows that more people are opting to measure their...