Food Rules for Weight Loss

The number one bestseller on Amazon right now is Food Rulesby Michael Pollan. It's a slim paperback and costs just $5.00Here's one review from Amazon; This book cuts through all the garbage health information out there and gets back to real food and real nutrition. The format is simple and so is the message: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. Our growing habit of eating packaged, processed foods...

The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone

Celebrity Alicia Silverstone, age 33, is a vegan and has written a book about her way of eating; The Kind Diet.Here's the description on Amazon;In The Kind Diet, actress, activist, and committed conservationist Alicia Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged her to swear off meat and dairy forever, and outlines the spectacular benefits of adopting a plant-based diet, from effortless weight...

Losing 2 Pounds a Week

Here's a before photo of Max. He is 17 years old and has been overweight for many years. Last year he changed his lifestyle and lost the excess weight gradually. He lost an average of two pounds a week and went from 212 pounds to his current 160 pounds. See his photo at a fit 160 pounds and his story he...

Losing the Belly

Max made the decision to lose some weight a few weeks ago. He has two toddlers and found it really hard to find time for exercise. But he's managed to do it and his belt size has already gone from 38 to 34.See his story he...

The Best Diet for 2010?

Mirror mirror on the wall, what is the best diet of them all?The Daily Beast has done a statistical analysis of the top 10 diets where clinical results are available and have ranked these diets in order of effectiveness. See their slideshow of the 10 best diets.You may be surprised to hear that the #1 most effective diet is not Jenny Craig, not Weight Watchers or Atkins. It may be one you've never...

The WiFi Scale

Here's a neat idea for a weight scale. It's the first WiFi scale that connects to the internet to automatically register your weight, fat and BMI calculations.We first heard about it via a Leo Laporte podcast. He was very impressed with it and has attached it to his tweets on Twitter so that each morning when he steps on the scale, an automatic tweet goes out about his current weight.The scale is...