15 articles
The 'alkaline diet' claims your food can fix your body's pH — it can't. Here's what your body's acid-alkaline balance actually is, and what diet really can do.
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Celebrity trainer Bob Harper says it's all about diet: you can't out-train a bad diet. How the calorie deficit works — and why exercise still matters.
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No time to exercise? A 15-minute home workout that mixes cardio and strength can build real fitness. Here's how the 5-4-3-2-1 plan works and why diet still
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The short version: The 5:2 diet — five normal days, two ~500-calorie days — produces weight loss, but no more than ordinary dieting.
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In 2012, FDNY firefighter Anthony Harper said colleagues harassed him after he quit the firehouse meals and went vegetarian. The department denied it.
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A rodent study reported by the New York Times found that exercise blunted the memory-impairing effects of a high-fat diet. Here is what it did and did not show.
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Weight loss is not magic and never instant. If the weight took months or years to put on, losing it takes time too — steady habits beat crash diets.
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Crash diets promise magic, but lasting weight loss comes from food as daily medicine: whole foods, gradual habits, and the wisdom of traditional eating.
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The research on lasting weight loss points away from rigid restriction and toward sustainable plans: total calories over time matter more than banning any
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A 2012 Tel Aviv University study found that a big breakfast including dessert helped obese dieters lose more and keep it off — but the caveats mattered more
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Cottage cheese packs ~28g protein per cup at ~163 calories. Here are sweet and savory ways to eat it — from breakfast bowls to lasagna swaps.
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After a quadruple bypass and a stent, Bill Clinton adopted a plant-based diet and lost 20+ pounds. The story of the most famous vegan convert in politics.
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Professor John Speakman's energy-expenditure research found we are not less active than in the 1980s — we just eat a third more. The fork beats the treadmill.
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Rapid weight loss costs muscle, not just fat — and the rebound is physiology, not failure. Why half a pound a week beats the crash diet.
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Diabetes is rising fastest in India — and type 2 is overwhelmingly a lifestyle disease. What science says about food, and what Ayurveda said centuries earlier.
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