Study Shows No Long-term Effectiveness of Diet Plans Except One
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Scientists say thereâs no evidence that popular, well-advertised weight-loss programs can actually help keep the pounds off for long.
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Nutritionists have cast doubt on a Lancet study showing cutting out &quot;bad&quot; carbohydrates leads to weight-loss. Research on rats by Boston Children&#39;s Hospital showed the diet, which promotes foods with a low glycaemic index (GI) score - could be beneficial.
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Eating fruits and vegetables won&#39;t reduce the risk of developing cancer, according to the findings of a study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
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The Pill does not boost a woman&#39;s risk of developing cancer and, for a majority of women, may even reduce that hazard, according to a long-term study published online on Wednesday.
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A new report by a national health advocacy group calls state and national policies ineffective tools in the war against obesity. The Trust for America&#39;s Health, a nonprofit organization based
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LONDON -- In another blow to the belief that antioxidant supplements improve health, an authoritative analysis has concluded there is no evidence the vitamins ward off digestive cancers.
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Low fat diets are just as effective as the controversial Atkins diet when it comes to losing weight over the long term, according a study.
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A panel of nutrition specialists proposed new US dietary guidelines yesterday that acknowledge a link between soft drinks and weight gain, but stopped
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ST. LOUIS -- Heavy children who lost weight kept the pounds off better through weight maintenance follow-up, but even that wasn't terribly successful over two years, researchers reported.
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New research suggests that people who lost weight -- and kept it off -- limited their fat, not carbohydrates. Dieters are starting to turn away from the Atkins-style plans for long-term weight control, and a new study backs them up.
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CHICAGO -- Hopes that a diet low in fat and chock-full of fruits and vegetables could prevent the return of breast cancer were dashed Tuesday by a large, seven-year experiment in more than 3,000 women.
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IT is the so-called &quot;wonder diet&quot; which has seen millions of people shed weight while eating fatty foods. But experts today claimed that the fashionable Atkins diet probably only works because it is so boring.
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Looking for that perfect diet? Researchers have bad news -- all diets have just about the same result, and none of them are great, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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A small study suggests that there is a way to counteract the negative health effects of a high-fat meal.
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Eating large amounts of  carbohydrates does not appear to increase the risk of colon  cancer in women, according to study findings published in the  American Journal of Epidemiology.
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A year-long, head-to-head study of four widely used diets found that overweight women who followed the very low-carbohydrate Atkins diet had no adverse health effects and lost slightly more weight than women on the other three diets.
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ATLANTA - In the contentious debate over what Americans should eat, there&#39;s one thing that everyone from vegans to policymakers to Atkins dieters agree on: The Food Pyramid isn&#39;t working.