Diets for Morons

Originally written by cardiologist Arthur Agatston, MD, the South Beach Diet has risen to popularity in recent years as one of the most effective and widely used methods of losing weight. As a practicing physician, Dr. Agatston was looking for new ways to help his patients keep their weight under control, and began researching and [...]

Proven to lower blood pressure in as little as two weeks time, the DASH diet is often recommended by physicians to those who suffer from pre-hypertension or hypertension. This diet is more than just a low-salt or low-sodium diet. Instead, it is based upon a food plan that is rich in fruits, vegetables, lean protein [...]

The Grapefruit diet has been a very popular rapid weight loss diet for many years. Focused on one particular food item – the grapefruit – this diet is not well rounded, as it does not offer a balanced meal plan. Nor is the Grapefruit diet a long-term solution for weight loss because it does not [...]

A lesser-known diet plan that has enjoyed some recent popularity, the Mediterranean Diet involves eating fresh healthy foods, healthy fats,  and choosing nutrient rich vegetables over red meat. While most diets are thought to restrict or even forbid particular foods, the Mediterranean Diet differs in the way that it focuses heavily on what you “can” [...]

Though it’s a name that has become synonymous with weight loss and dieting, the Atkin’s Diet is generally misunderstood by most dieters today. Originally devised to resolve his own issues with being overweight, Dr. Robert Atkins first wrote about his diet in 1972’s “Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution”. A later revised and updated version of the [...]

As a rebuttal to an overwhelming number of fad diets, the American Heart Association has released its own diet to assist people in making a healthy lifestyle change to achieve their weight loss goals. Also known as the “no fad diet”, this diet aims to bring about real and measurable change in the lives of [...]

Dating back to as early as 1985, The Three Day Tuna Diet is making a comeback as a popular crash diet among weight loss seekers. Like many fad diets, the aim of the three day tuna diet is to promote fast weight loss by means of limiting calorie intake per day, causing the body to [...]