The Diet Diary

Jim Karas is preaching “Cardio Kills”. Don’t you believe it!
Sure, exercise gurus probably emphasized cardio and neglected strength training starting in the 70’s. All those fitness fans doing nothing but running? Well, the running was good for you, but a little strength training would round out their programs. It would help […]

A University of Queensland study shows that consulting medical professionals by phone helps dieters lose weight. Medical News Today reports the results of a meta study by Dr. Elizabeth Eakin. She and her colleagues reviewed 77 studies and found that, whether subjects were focusing on diet or exercise, regular phone consultations with professionals helped […]

How can a recipe called meatloaf for 24 be considered a portion control recipe?
It’s all in how you serve it! The way I do it, I control portions, avoid hunger and save myself a lot of cooking time and energy. I also save money buying economy packages of meat. (This beat the heck […]

New research shows that South Asian, North American aboriginal, and Chinese ethnicity may be associated with glucose, blood-pressure, and lipid abnormalities at BMIs much lower than the cut points widely in use. A BMI of 25 may not be normal in certain groups, researchers say.
Source:Heartwire: Shelley Wood
This study, conducted in Canada, included people of Chinese […]

Trying to lose weight? Calories count more than the types of food you eat.
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Tufts University study shows
that after a year, overweight people on a low-carb low-glycemic-index (aka “slow-carb” diet lost the same amount of weight as as overweight people on a reduced-fat, high-glycemic-index diet.
Both groups lost about 8% of their […]

Japanese researchers have reported that breast milk can reduce belly fat. Evidently, lactoferrin, a protein found in abundance in breast milk reduced visceral fat by up to 40% (Visceral fat is the kind deposited on your internal organs and is thought to put people at risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. […]