Weight Loss

Diet experts tackle 12 weight-loss questions
Detroit News - 40 KB- Found: 6 hours ago
Your personal trainer subsists on whey shakes, your sister's sworn off dairy, and a book you picked up on barnesandnoble.com recommends watercress soup for weight loss. Is it any wonder you're stymied about what to eat come mealtime? To ease the confusion, we rounded up top nutrition and weight-loss experts to answer the most burning questions.

FDA, FTC and a Revolutionary Product Launch Among Some of the Most Exciting Presentations at 2nd Annual Obesity & [press release]
PR Web - 27 KB- Found: 7 hours ago
The World Obesity & Weight Loss Congress launches its second annual event with over 60 speakers in two days, within three, concurrent industry tracks. The first-ever B-to-B event will bring together all the major players for 2 1/2 days of intense scrutiny of this worldwide epidemic. You'll hear the latest business and scientific advances being made in 3 of the largest and most active industries:

Weight Loss Takes a Load Off Your Knees
ThirdAge - 35 KB- Found: 17 hours ago
HealthDay News - Losing just one pound of body weight results in a four-pound reduction in the load placed on the knee joint each time a person takes a step, according to a new study of overweight and obese people.

Health News - Got GERD? Weight Loss May Help
HealthCentral.com - 42 KB- Found: 2005-08-03, 09:35 GMT
Got GERD? TUESDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) -- It's well known that too much weight can raise a person's risk of heart disease and diabetes. Now, researchers report that too many pounds can also contribute to symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disorder, commonly known as GERD.

Fabricated memories might aid weight loss: study
EARTHtimes.org - 35 KB- Found: 15 hours ago
The power of suggestion won another brownie point when researchers from University of California-Irvine, University of Washington and Kwantlen University College in Washington, found that implanting unpleasant memories of calorie-laden foods helps people lose weight by avoiding these foods without any special efforts.

Owings Mills, Md.-Based Medifast Weight-Loss Product Outlasts Atkins
RedNova - 23 KB- Found: 2005-08-02, 05:02 GMT
Aug. 2--All the attention paid to the Atkins diet didn't much faze Bradley T. MacDonald, even though the competing weight-loss program hurt sales at his Owings Mills business last year. He was certain it wouldn't last -- in fact, he suspected the attention would do Atkins in.

Health: Weight Loss Gadget
KYW - 24 KB- Found 40 minutes ago
PHILADELPHIA (KYW) Are you on a diet and sick of yo yoing up and down? You are not alone. Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl says that at any given time 71 million Americans are cutting calories, fat, and carbohydrates.

Little Miss Muffet's whey found to aid weight loss
South Bend Tribune - 12 KB- Found: 23 hours ago
Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet eating her curds and whey ... which may have helped keep her shapely figure. Dairy foods are currently under intense study for their effects on weight management, according to Dr. Michael Zemel, nutrition researcher from the University of Tennessee.

Easy changes can aid weight loss
Detroit News - 28 KB- Found: 6 hours ago
Picture, if you will, four scales sitting on a counter in front of you.

Weight-loss gurus scramble to pick up where Atkins left off
This Ithaca Journal - 26 KB- Found: 5 hours ago
ALBANY More dieters are ditching carb counts and biting into baguettes with gusto these days. Some are eating like French women who never get fat, according to one best seller. Or they're taking their cues from celebrities like Suzanne Somers.