Congratulations Karen!
This has been life changing for me.“I turned 50 this year and was 25 pounds heavier than I wanted to be. I tried all of the “old” diets that had worked for me in the past, but I didn’t see the scale going down and I was constantly hungry! I started following the iDiet...
Bread. To eat or not to eat, that is the question.
How to use the best high-fiber breads for weight control. Now that Oprah has bought 10% of Weight Watchers and is appearing in TV ads saying she is losing weight while eating the bread she loves, it is timely to re-examine what we know about bread and weight...
Dieting Beyond the Calorie
Did you know a calorie is not always a calorie once it enters the body?The calorie is a measurement of a unit of energy — the energy contained in food. And it’s at the heart of every weight loss strategy. Most people think of the calorie as an absolute measurement,...
Food Shaming is Not Helpful
The recent media attention on “fat-shaming” is fantastic — it is terrible that anyone should be made to feel badly for failing to match an unrealistic standard. Now it is time to give the same support and respect to those who are eating carefully because they are...
The Skinny on Fat, Part 1: Moderation is Sexy
Yet another article, this one in the New York Times, weighed in this week on the war over carbs and fats, and appeared to come out strongly favoring high-fat. Here is my take on this issue from my perspective as a weight regulation expert. The article also talked...
Congratulations Kara!
“iDiet has been one of the best decisions I have ever made for myself in my entire life! After 2 years of struggling to just lose 25 pounds through exercise and traditional diets, the iDiet lifestyle (I still refuse to call it a diet, it’s a lifestyle) has...
This is Not a Healthy Growth Curve
The most recent CDC numbers are depressing, showing an astronomical 75% of men and 67% of women currently struggling with their weight. Just when we think it can’t get any worse, it does. The figures break out to show nearly 40 percent of men and nearly 30 percent of...
Dr Roberts on juice cleanses and fasting (Part 3 in a series)
Desperation makes us susceptible to desperate measures, which brings us finally to the topic of juice cleanses and modified fasts.Begin Soapbox ;-)I’m sorry for ranting here, but of all the unfortunate concepts that greedy weight loss companies have dreamed up to...
Legumes aren’t paleo, but they’re good for you anyway
Sometimes the sheerest nonsense is put out about what foods are healthy versus unhealthy. Into that category I would now firmly put the strange and incorrect notion that legumes are unhealthy.This horribly unhelpful ‘advice’ appears to have originated with the Paleo...
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