Review: The Jenny Craig Diet
Actress Kirstie Alley’s 55-pound weight loss using the Jenny Craig diet program has brought new worldwide attention to this particular diet regimen. It is important to note that Jenny Craig is known as one of the largest weight management services in the world. According to its website, Jenny Craig stresses sound nutrition and simple activity in order to help clients achieve maximum weight loss. The company boasts more than 600...
Review: The Lean System Success Plan
I’ve read a lot of diets, and I like Stephen Adele’s Lean System Success Plan. For one, it’s not some huge, weighty tome that will take you weeks and weeks to read — perhaps even growing dust on your night table in the meantime. No, the Lean System Success Plan, with its laminated, colorful pages and practical design is easy to navigate, simple to read and get through easily. When motivation is a fleeting...
Review: Low G.I. Diet Breakthrough
Note: the Low Glycemic Diet Breakthrough is no longer available. The Low Glycemic Diet Breakthrough is based upon the consumption of low glycemic foods, or foods that have a relatively little effect upon your blood sugar levels. To fully understand the significance of this, a detailed introduction to the glycemic index (also referred to simply as “GI”) is in order… The first thing you need to know is that the...
Christopher Guerriero’s Maximize Your Metabolism
Christopher Guerriero’s Maximize Your Metabolism publication is, not surprisingly given the title, almost entirely dedicated to increasing your metabolic rate. Why should this interest you? Well, the metabolic rate is the measure of the speed at which your body burns calories. The faster your metabolism, the more calories your body burns, the slower, the fewer it burns. It’s pretty obvious… a faster metabolism...
Review: Mayo Clinic Diet
Before I begin with the review of the Mayo Clinic Diet, you should know upfront that this diet is not endorsed by the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. Yeah, it’s a bit misleading, I know. The Mayo Clinic Diet was developed some 30 years ago, but the real impetus for the diet is unknown. While the Mayo Clinic Diet may come in a number of varieties, it customarily includes grapefruit at every meal. The diet is also...
Review: The Mediterranean Diet
We’ve all heard of the Mediterranean diet, right? Well in this case, the term “Mediterranean Diet” may actually be a misnomer, since there is no one single diet favored by the 16 countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. In fact, diets vary not only between countries but also within different regions of the same country. The differing diets are based upon culture, ethnicity, religion, economic factors, and agricultural...