50 Surprise Reasons You’ve Gained Weight
We found this list of surprising causes of weight gain and thought it was worth sharing with you. So often we blame a lazy, convenience driven culture for the reason our population is overweight and...
View ArticleDr. Oz’s Ultimate Health Checklist from Oprah’s Best Life Week
As Oprah’s Best Life week continues, she welcomed Dr. Oz, a.k.a. America’s doctor, to the show once again. In the second day of her campaign to get healthy alongside the rest of us, she asked Dr. Oz to...
View Article5 Things to Remove from Your Diet Today
Everyone from Biggest Loser trainers to Dr. Oz and less famous nutritionists will urge you to remove these five food ingredients from your diet. Today. Making a habit of reading food labels can make a...
View ArticleIs Pepsi Throwback Healthier?
What is Throwback Natural Pepsi? This product was first launched in the UK in which Pepsi marketed and introduced “Pepsi Raw.” This Pepsi Raw is a “corn syrup free, all natural soda.” Pepsi Raw has...
View ArticleJillian Michaels Urges Subway to Remove High Fructose Corn Syrup from Breads
“I told em if they take it out of their bread I’ll do a commercial for free,” said Jillian Michaels in response to learning that Subway breads contain high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The star trainer...
View ArticleEating High-Fructose Corn Syrup Worse Than Sugar
The high-fructose corn syrup industry and its advocates, like The Corn Refiners Association, have lobbied hard to convince us that their product is not bad for us. Just like the tobacco industry, they...
View ArticleHunt’s Ketchup Drops Corn Syrup
Hunt’s Ketchup, the perpetual number two in the business behind Heinz, has found a healthy way to steal the spotlight, however long that may last. ConAgra, which makes Hunt’s Ketchup, reformulated it’s...
View ArticleDr. Pepper Removes High Fructose Corn Syrup Temporarily
Celebrating 125 years of being one of the most unique and popular sodas around, Dr. Pepper is getting rid of its high fructose corn syrup. For now. It’s a temporary move to swap out the ingredient for...
View ArticleIs High Fructose Corn Syrup Bad for You?
We’ve seen the commercials that attempt to disperse negative reputation of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) conveniently produced by the Corn Refiners Association and we’ve read the studies that...
View ArticleCancer Cells Love High Fructose Corn Syrup
There’s a new reason why you should cut down on high fructose corn syrup: they feed cancer cells as well as fat cells. A research study found that pancreatic cancer cells grew and multiplied faster on...
View ArticleYour Temptation-Free Kitchen Survival Guide
Your kitchen is the key to your weight loss success. By simply stocking it with the ingredients for healthy meals and snacks, you won’t be able to make a bad decision, even when those late night...
View ArticleHFCS: Changing the Name Doesn’t Change the Product
UPDATE [9/14/2011]: Although it may take the FDA another year to decide to approve the Corn Refiner’s Association’s (CRA) request to use the term “Corn Sugar” instead of “High Fructose Corn Syrup,”...
View ArticleHealth Buzz: Dangers of Sleep Eating, HFCS’s New Name and What Embarrasses a...
This week’s hot health buzz from DietsInReview.com: HFCS: Changing the Name Doesn’t Change the Products The Corn Refiners Association thinks that high fructose corn syrup has gotten a bad rap. Some...
View ArticleCorn Sugar Versus High Fructose Corn Syrup – Understand the Difference
Just recently, the Corn Refiners Association took the legal steps necessary to change the name high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to the more innocuous name, “corn sugar.” While the approval could take as...
View ArticleConsumers Respond to Corn Syrup to Corn Sugar Name Change
Corn syrup, corn sugar, high fructose corn syrup… are you confused yet? Changing the name of high fructose corn syrup to corn sugar seems to me to be a marketing ploy to avoid the bad press that high...
View ArticleSugar 101: Know the Different Types of Sugar on the Market
Have you ever wondered why there are so many different types of sugar in your grocery store? Last week, consumers responded, some in outrage, to the latest announcement from the Corn Refiner’s...
View ArticleYour Yogurt Might Not Be as Healthy as You Think
Yogurt can be one of the healthiest food choices you can make in your diet. Packed with high quality protein, tons of calcium and full of healthy digestive bacterias, a cup of yogurt can be part of a...
View ArticleThe Hunt For Healthy Halloween Treats
I am finally back in a neighborhood where I am likely to receive trick or treaters. I’m pretty excited about the sparkly skull decorating my front door to announce we are a trick-or-treater-friendly...
View ArticleTeen Soda Consumption is Down
There’s potentially good news in regards to teens and their soda consumption. In 2010, 24 percent of teens in the U.S. drank at least one soda on a daily basis, which was down from 29 percent the...
View ArticleFour Lessons We Learned from Dr. Hoebel
Renowned Princeton physiological psychologist and researcher Bart Hoebel has died at the age of 76. He was a leader in research on eating behaviors and the addictive qualities of food. He seems to have...
View ArticleThe Truth About Peanut Butter: 4 Healthier Brands
Who didn’t grow up eating peanut butter sandwiches? While peanut butter and jelly has been a lunchbox staple for as far back as anyone can remember, the delicious sandwich spread is far from...
View ArticleThe State of Food and Obesity in the U.S.
Obesity rates and other related statistics are rolled out every year, sometimes even more frequently, with each seeming worse than the last. The U.S. is on a fast train that’s heading towards a brick...
View ArticleSoda vs Marijuana – Which Do You Think is Worse?
There’s a chart that has been floating around the Internet for a while comparing various health effects of soda and marijuana. The agenda doesn’t appear to be pro-pot as much as it is pointing out...
View ArticleHigh Fructose Corn Syrup in Many Cough and Cold Syrups
High fructose corn syrup, found in sodas, cereals and baked goods, has become a food bad guy for its link to obesity and diabetes but it might not only be food the sticky stuff is lurking in. Some...
View ArticleWeight Loss and Better Health With Guidance from “Wheat Belly”
A few weeks ago my friend Michelle McNally tweeted a link to this interview with Dr. William Davis, author of Wheat Belly. I was impressed with Dr. Davis, so I put it on my hold list at the library and...
View ArticleReview: Skinny Cow Dreamy Clusters Can Fit in Your Diet
There’s a new candy popping up next to grocery check-out stands and it comes from Skinny Cow. Just because a brand markets itself as “healthier” doesn’t always mean that it is. So before you shrug off...
View ArticleFructose Makes Rats Dumber, Study Shows
It looks like the soft drink industry and other sugar-laden product companies are going to take another hit in the name of fructose. A recent study on fructose’s effects on rats showed that when fed...
View ArticleFDA Rules Against Calling High Fructose Corn Syrup ‘Corn Sugar’
Manufacturers of the infamous substance known as high fructose corn syrup are displeased at the ruling that it will retain its unfortunate name, at least for now. After the Corn Refiners Association...
View ArticleHigh Fructose Corn Syrup and Memory Loss Research Study Needs a Control Group
Yet again it seems that mass media is not accurately portraying scientific research. This time the research is by Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of...
View ArticleCoca-Cola CEO Reacts to Mayor Bloomberg’s Soda Ban
Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca-Cola, recently spoke out on allegations of his company being responsible for the obesity epidemic in the U.S. Kent’s responses come weeks after New York City Mayor Bloomberg...
View ArticleEmpty Calories Comic: The GMO Trick in Halloween Treats
See more Empty Calories right here in the blog as we poke fun at the lighter side of dieting and weight loss. See More Related Articles VIDEO: Celebrities Endorse UNREAL Candy VIDEO: What is a GMO?...
View ArticleNatural Fructose in Fruit is Fine; It’s the High Fructose Corn Syrup That...
Remember a time when you were eating, but never felt full and ended up eating more food? This could be caused by the consumption of fructose. As reported by Medical News Study, researchers found...
View ArticleDo You Know What You Just Put in Your Mouth? Author Patrick Di Justo Tells...
Patrick Di Justo, author of “This is What You Just Put in Your Mouth” took to reddit last week to answer readers’ questions about the very same topic. Di Justo wrote a column in everyone’s favorite...
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