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Librarian Says She Lost Nearly 80 Pounds On A 'Starbucks Diet' [VIDEO]

Chris Reed — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:15:52 +0000

A law librarian, Christine Hall, decided a few years back that she wanted to lose weight, but she didn't want to go on some strict diet or have to run to the gym everyday.

Heaviest Living Woman Using 'Bumping Uglies' Diet to Shed Pounds

Mike Adams — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:39:08 +0000

Three years ago, Pauline Potter was not only about to get divorced from her husband Alex, but she was on the verge of becoming the heaviest women in the world – weighing a heavy-duty 728 pounds at the time she entered herself into the Guinness Book of Records. Now she is back together with her [...]

Can a Pair of Glasses Trick You Into Eating Less? [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:02:09 +0000

For years, many diet experts have advised using smaller plates for our food. By doing so, normal portions look bigger and thus fool us into thinking we’ve eaten more than we have.

Now a group of Japanese researchers have taken that idea one further — they’ve created goggles that make food look larger.

Have You Started a Diet for 2012? — Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:32:46 +0000

It’s been a little over a week since New Year’s resolutions kicked in, officially long enough to determine if you’ve started that diet that you promised yourself — if, in fact, you picked what is usually the year’s most popular resolution.

Dieting Forces the Brain To Eat Itself

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:56:00 +0000

When you’re trying to lose weight by cutting down on your food intake your brain is busy chomping down — on itself. Researchers from Yeshiva University in New York have found that when a person diets, the sudden loss of nutrients causes the brain to try to conserve energy by devouring its own cells. As [...]