Healthy Food Chart

Last Friday, the diet drug Meridia was pulled from the shelves in America by its maker, Abbott Laboratories. Meridia, a prescription drug, was known to cause a higher risk of heart attack and stroke when in trials, but scientists believed this effect might be compensated for by the weight loss benefits. It wasn’t….

A study from Duke University showed that the manner in which Doctors communicated with patients, regarding their weight loss, impacted their success — it is better to be Dr. Mark Green than Dr. Greg House, when broaching the subject of weight. The study is published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine….

Forum Post: Hi there, I have an unusual question. I used to be very overweight, with a BMI of 28. Earlier this year, I began losing weight very rapidly and by April was diagnosed with cancer. By late May, my weight had…

I’m not sure how any of us survived so long eating all that gluten and dairy, but by the thousands people are switching to a gluten-free and a dairy-free lifestyle for many reasons. Fortunately, award winning french chef, Alain Braux, just released a new book, Living Gluten and Dairy-Free with French Gourmet Food. If you want or need to…

Forum Post: I know that it’s through exercise and diet, but I don’t know where to start. I’m 5’1 and 140 lbs. Please help me. I love sweets, junk food and soda. I know it’s a lethal combination. Please give me small…

College is a place of learning. Learning how to fill the swim meet with fizzies, deliver the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner, fill the trees with underwear, and explode the toilets every spring. Err, I mean, college, is a place of higher education, like physics, calculus, math, and science – all that “good” stuff. College is also…

Go ask anyone who starts to snort and sniffle when pollen is high and the smell of fresh cut grass wafts through the air, and they’ll tell you, antihistamines are a godsend. Antihistamine medication is used to stop allergic reactions. Histamines in the body cause fluid to escape from capillaries resulting in swelling, itching, and sneezing. But those beloved…

Forum Post: Hi, I’m 24, 5ft and weigh 167 pounds but my doctors say I am anaemic (strangely). They say my ideal weight range is 106 – 116.6 lbs. (48.2 – 53 kg). So, I’m technically overweight by 50lbs or 23kg. I…

Forum Post: I cannot stand the texture of oatmeal. It is so bad that I cannot get it down. Is there some substitute for oatmeal with similar/the same benefits? If not, is there a specific type of oatmeal or cooking method that…

… that’s the advice from a new study, published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. Researchers found that a diet rich in walnuts and walnut oil may help the body to deal better with stressful situations. Sheila West, associate professor of biobehavioral health, said this:…