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The FDA recently issued a warning about a number of tainted diet supplements. Many of the products claim to be “natural” or contain only “herbal” ingredients - but actually contain pharmaceutical ingredients.

An FDA analysis found that the undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients in some of these products include sibutramine (a controlled substance), rimonabant (a drug not approved for marketing in the United States), Read the rest of this entry »

Weight Watchers recently unveiled a new plan: Momentum. Beneath the hyperbole, the main difference in this plan is the use of “Filling Foods, satisfying choices you can rely on to help keep hunger in check.”

The Momentum plan is still based on the Weight Watchers Points system (ala the Flex plan) - but also has elements of the Core plan (based around eating more filling foods rather Read the rest of this entry »

The Healthy Weight Network recently released its20thannual Slim Chance Awards, highlighting both the hidden dangers of diets and supplements that often contain unknowningredients and sometimes potent drugs, and the merely ridiculous.

“To call 2008 a typical year in the weight loss field would be too easy,” cites their press release. “This year’s awards go to aninfamous huckster of diet infomercials, known for Read the rest of this entry »

The Healthy Weight Network recently released its20thannual Slim Chance Awards, highlighting both the hidden dangers of diets and supplements that often contain unknowningredients and sometimes potent drugs, and the merely ridiculous.

“To call 2008 a typical year in the weight loss field would be too easy,” cites their press release. “This year’s awards go to aninfamous huckster of diet infomercials, known for Read the rest of this entry »

Have you fallen into the “health halo” trap? Reported on by the New York Times, the health halo is what researchers have dubbed the effect where the presence of a supposedly healthy food within a meal makes consumers judge the whole meal as healthier.

Dr Chandon, co-author of The Biasing Health Halos of Fast-Food Restaurant Health Claims had produced two questionnaires which were used by the New York Times in a survey.

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When Irecently came across a website solely devoted to rumors of celebrity weight gain, celebrity dietsand celebrity weight loss (mostly women's weight loss, of course), I was struck by the seemingly innocuousdisclaimer of the website(which I will not promote by naming).Itreads “All content on this website should be considered harmless speculation and gossip.”

Harmless?

That'scertainly debatable. Study after study Read the rest of this entry »

When Irecently came across a website solely devoted to rumors of celebrity weight gain, celebrity dietsand celebrity weight loss (mostly women's weight loss, of course), I was struck by the seemingly innocuousdisclaimer of the website(which I will not promote by naming).Itreads “All content on this website should be considered harmless speculation and gossip.”

Harmless?

That'scertainly debatable. Study after study Read the rest of this entry »

This is just a short post to address the five or so people that email us every week about LA Weight Loss closing down and not being able to get a refund.

We aren’t affiliated with LA Weight Loss and we don’t have any contact information for them. We are sorry that you have been a victim in whatever is going on with the company. Please contact the proper governmental agency if you cannot deal directly with the company. Unfortunately, Read the rest of this entry »

I had a wonderful interaction with a family member this morning. Amazingly, it was echoed in my horoscope today on DailyOM, the site I've mentioned before that is often uncannily relevant to what's going on in my life. Won't get into the generality of horoscopes — I know they often can apply to anyone. But the words I get in a daily e-letter from DailyOM seem to go beyond that.

But to my real reason for even mentioning Read the rest of this entry »

I had a wonderful interaction with a family member this morning. Amazingly, it was echoed in my horoscope today on DailyOM, the site I've mentioned before that is often uncannily relevant to what's going on in my life. Won't get into the generality of horoscopes — I know they often can apply to anyone. But the words I get in a daily e-letter from DailyOM seem to go beyond that.

But to my real reason for even mentioning Read the rest of this entry »