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Celery for Thanksgiving?
Enjoying food traditions such as Thanksgiving meals get us thinking about how food traditions change over time. Did you know that 100 years ago, celery used to be considered a luxury food, reserved for special occasions? Originally an early winter vegetable,…
Surviving Thanksgiving — With Science
We’ve passed through the gate of Halloween and entered the zone of the Winter holidays! This can mean lots of celebration food, and associated weight gain. So let’s talk about that.One way to avoid some of the usual holiday weight…
iDiet’s Curated Weight Loss News for October
Here is the real diet and nutrition news we found most interesting this month. So many blogs try to lure your clicks with recycled “news”. We strive to share only valid and responsible weight loss journalism. The 8 health habits…
Why your fitness tracker may not be your friend
A large-scale weight loss study, just published in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, raises questions about how fitness trackers influence weight loss and eating behavior. It found that over a 24 month period, people who did NOT…
iDiet shines a spotlight on weight loss news
The diet news that’s worth your time The news is always full of weight loss and health headlines, but have you noticed many of them are more click-bait than serious journalism? We’ve sorted through recent headlines that caught our attention,…
The science of weight loss
Whether your metabolism is slow or fast, you can lose weight if you know what to do. People often talk about the speed of their metabolism, but do you know what “metabolism” really means? Metabolism Explained About 70% of the…
Why (Most) Diets Fail
Let’s face it. If the big-name diet plans worked, everyone would already be thin and they’d all be out of business by now. 🙂 Clearly, something isn’t working. The sad fact is, most diets fail, and they can fail you…
Dr Susan Roberts awarded the 2016 W.O. Atwater Lectureship
Dr. Susan Roberts, iDiet author, received the W.O. Atwater Lectureship award at the national nutrition conference in San Diego CA. This is an annual award recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of nutrition, nominated by her colleagues across the nation.…
Biggest Losers are not Best Losers
Recent media coverage of a new study of contestants on NBC’s reality television show The Biggest Loser, published in the journal Obesity, raises serious concerns about drawing conclusions from a single study of 14 individuals, no matter how dramatic the…
What is Healthy Weight Loss?
Here at iDiet, we use phrases such as "healthy weight loss" and "maximum healthy rate" of weight loss. So what does that really mean? Let's dive deeper.