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Why You Shouldn’t Have Alcohol Around if You’re On a Diet
Studies show it’s more tempting than sugary snacks
Quiz: Find The Best Diet For Your Personality
How to Talk to Your Kids About Their Eating Habits: Very Carefully
Weight is never an easy subject, but it can be especially dicey when parents broach the issue of eating habits and weight with their teens.
The Most Popular Diets of 2012 (According to Google)
Want to Lose Weight? A Coach or a Buddy Can Help
A weight-control coach — even it’s only a peer, not a professional — can help you stick to your plan and shed those pounds, a new study suggests
A Simpler Way to Slow the Obesity Crisis
Telling people to choose healthy foods isn’t working. A better solution may be to let people eat whatever they want—just not to increase their calories over time
The Healthland Podcast: Super Broccoli, Yo-Yo Dieting, and Why Toddlers Are Terrible
Welcome back! This week on the podcast: why dieters can’t seem to keep the weight off, a new breed of super broccoli that promises to lower your cholesterol, and research suggesting that kids’ aggression can be traced back to …
How Successful Dieters Make Weight Loss Stick
Dieters always regain lost weight, right? Not so, according to a new analysis of data from the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR), whose 10,000 participants have lost at least 30 lbs. and kept the weight off for a year or longer.
Marijuana Slims? Why Pot Smokers Are Less Obese
If cannabis causes the munchies, how is it possible that pot smokers are thinner than nonsmokers?
The Healthland Podcast: Diets, Divorce and Cigarettes
On the podcast this week: results from a major Harvard study on how to eat right. Also, a controversial new trend in how some divorced parents are raising their children. And finally, the war over government labeling of …
Does ‘Magical Thinking’ Help People Lose Weight?
For some people struggling to lose weight, researchers say it may help to engage in a little “magical thinking” as a way to cope with the stress of dieting and being overweight.
Big Breakfasts Are Out. 5 Better-For-You Morning Meals
Conventional nutritional wisdom has suggested that having a big breakfast jump starts your metabolism and helps you eat less the rest of the day — and stay slim. But a study published Monday in Nutrition Journal turned that …