Posts Tagged ‘Weight Watchers’

The Drive-Thru Diet: Does It Work?

27th January 2010 by admin No Comments

Posting calories on a fast food menu can make a difference.
In a small study printed in the journal Pediatrics, parents ordered about 20 percent fewer calories for their children when they chose from a menu that offered nutrition information.
According to a new survey, nearly seven in 10 Americans think that having better choices in the [...]

Diet Heavyweights Are Battling It Out in Court

27th October 2009 by admin No Comments

Weight Watchers has slapped fitness-club chain Curves with a big, fat lawsuit, alleging that the rival’s ad campaign misuses its corporate logo and makes puffed-up claims about slimming waistlines.
The two diet heavyweights’ food fight centers on Curves’ new 30-Day Diet Plan ads running on cable, according to the suit in Manhattan federal court.
In the ad, [...]

Alicia Silverstone Quit Counting Calories – With Her “Kind Diet”

16th October 2009 by admin 5 Comments

Victoria Pearson

Alicia Silverstone’s got a thing for animals. She tried going vegetarian for the first time at age 8, subsisting on a month-long diet of ice cream and eggs. It was touch and go, however, she “stopped and started a lot or ‘forgot,’” she explains in her new book “The Kind Diet: A [...]

How One Woman Lost 60 Stubborn Pregnancy Pounds

29th July 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Holly Hunt was always the kind of person who could eat anything and never gain a pound. But during her pregnancy with her second son, Conner, in 2004, she put on 60 pounds that just stayed put. “It was scary,” Holly says. “I felt like I was stuck inside a fat suit.” Even scarier, her [...]