Dances With Fat: “Fashion Magazine Freakout”
Anyone who knows me knows that I can’t stand “women’s” magazines. The models are all Photoshopped and the health/fitness info ranges from fluff to BS. Which is why I loved this blog post, “Fashion Magazine Freakout,” by Ragen Chastain of “Dances With Fat.” It’s from a year ago, but this hardly matters… women’s mags certainly haven’t changed much in the last year....
Two “Hoodia” Supplements Banned in 10 California Counties
Not only did the manufacturer of the supps in question make unsupported claims for Hoodia in its products… it also neglected to include the Hoodia at all! According to a press release from the Santa Cruz County DA’s office: Prosecutors from Santa Cruz, Napa, Alameda, Marin, Monterey, Orange, Santa Clara, Shasta, Solano, and Sonoma County District Attorney’s Offices, reached a settlement with Florida-based defendants...
Dukan’s Dumb Idea
I haven’t written much about the Dukan Diet, primarily because it’s a hybrid of the old Stillman and Atkins diets. In other words, it’s not very original. I imagine it works, just as its predecessors did. I also imagine that it suffers from the same issues that plague other rigid, exclusionary diets too – relatively low compliance and (eventual) weight regain. I haven’t seen any peer-reviewed data to...
Greater Weight Loss When Carbs Saved for Dinner?
Dr. Arya Sharma, of “Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes” flagged a rather interesting Israeli study on overweight police officers. According to Dr. Sharma: A study by Sigal Sofer and colleagues from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, published in OBESITY, suggests that eating most of your carbs at dinner may have beneficial effects on hormonal patterns, metabolism, and lead to more weight loss than eating a...
The Right Move…For The Wrong Reasons
After signalling its intention to act, the FDA finally made it official: warning letters have been sent to several manufacturers of homeopathic HCG weight loss supps. In today’s announcement, the FDA described it as the “first step” towards getting them off the online and retail market. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today issued seven Warning Letters to companies...
FTC Temporarily Halts Fake News Sites Selling Weight Loss Supplements
Another day, another supplement scam. The FTC is coming down on yet-another-bunch-of-crooks using phony “news” sites to separate people from their money. The complaint alleges that the defendants hired affiliate marketers who used fake news websites to promote the defendants’ products. The fake news websites used domain names that appear to be objective news or health sites, such as channel8health.com,...
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