Diet guide news 2010-05

2010-05-27 The Trend is Your Friend with This Healthy Stock

The risks involved in NutriSystem are not terribly great, although one must always evaluate them independently. Dieting is as American as the apple pie we arent supposed to eat, and there simply isnt going to be a time when the diet market wont be gigantic. So the key for NutriSystem is protecting its brand and maintaining its presence via effective marketing. Dont discount how difficult this is. Thanks to the Internet, media consumption has fragmented and NutriSystem must stay present in all forms of media -- not just TV and newspapers anymore. Economy-related risks certainly also exist, but even in bad times, the company has remained profitable.

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2010-05-01 Michael Pollans Influential Book "Food Rules: An Eaters Manual"

The last two rules of the book are also using both a scientific and a common sense approach to eating. no. 63 is simply Cook. Packaged convenience foods, fast foods, restaurant foods, junk foods all contain lots of sodium, unhealthy oils, preservatives, and unnatural additives for taste. Cooking more fresh foods at home has been shown to improve nutrient levels and reduce

Food Rules gives us 64 very easy common sense guidelines on how to eat a healthier diet. For example, Rule no. 2 is Dont eat anything your great grandmother wouldnt recognize as food. He gives the example of Go-Gurt, a yogurt made to be kid-friendly with bright colors in a plastic eat without a spoon tube. However, think of the amount of unnatural chemicals are included such as artificial colors (Red no. 40, Blue no. 1) and potassium sorbate (to maintain freshness). Not to mention that each tube has 10 grams of sugar each.

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Michael Pollan has been named one of this years Times 100 Most Influential People for his dedication for bringing awareness to our nations food . - Foods rules pollan health sugar comments shown fresh unnatural diseases comment spend think chronic reduce example americans people .

2010-05-11 Bodega Diet: Janine Whiteson Shows How To Do More With Less (VIDEOS)

Sadly, many New Yorkers are forced to use local bodegas as their main food source due to cost and the scarcity of supermarkets in their neighborhoods. This leads to a diet full of high sodium canned goods, sugary cereals, and unhealthy meats and sweets.

And someone should tell hip hop artists Loer Velocity and DonnanLinks about the diet. The duo released a song called "Hood Diet" detailing how communities served only be fast food joints and bodegas are suffering:

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Sadly, many New Yorkers are forced to use local bodegas as their main food source due to cost and the scarcity of supermarkets in their neighborhoods. This leads to a diet full of high sodium canned goods, sugary cereals, and unhealthy meats and sweets. - Bodega diet: janine whiteson shows how to do more with less (videos) new york

2010-05-02 Organic Food is not Necessarily Diet Food and raquo; Tech Jackal

Now that you are armed with this new information, the next time you begin to shell out the big dollars for organic foods, ask yourself are you doing it to lose weight or to be healthier. If you are doing it to cut down your waistline, you may want to skip over to the dieting section.

The organic rage is a good, healthy choice as far as not allowing additional chemicals to enter your body; however, thinking of these products in terms of diet products may be a little misleading. A recent study has revealed that organic foods do not promise low calories.

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2010-05-06 Suiting a Home Diet Meal Plan to My Tastes

The meals looked like institutional fare and their taste was disappointing. Sauces were gelatinous. And when I read the ingredients, I was dismayed. A single breakfast item contained mechanically separated turkey, sugar, beef stock, silicon dioxide and smoke flavoring, to name just a few. (I later learned that the founders of Nu-Kitchen sold it in 2008 to Nutrisystem, the national diet food company. )

After online searches and conversations with friends, I decided to compare the offerings of four companies: Zone Manhattan, Chefs Diet, Nu-Kitchen and eDiets. All four would deliver the meals to my door in Brooklyn. Three deliver daily, while the fourth, eDiets, sends a large package once a week. None of the companies knew I was a reporter.

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A test of four companies that deliver healthy meals in New York. - Diet and Nutrition Food Weight

2010-05-31 High Fructose Corn Syrup Not so Sweet for Your Diet Before Its News

Its much denser. Its easier to transport. Its a lot cheaper. It is much, much sweeter than sugar, so they can use less of it. And over the course of the last 30 years, this has become the sweetener of choice in America," said Dr. Timothy Harlan, assistant professor of medicine at Tulane. He practices as an internal medicine doctor and as a chef has a complete food and diet website.

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2010-05-17 Jennifer Aniston Solid Food Rumors

Ive been asked lately, Jen, whats this baby food diet all about I kept thinking, Thats the strangest question ever," she said in a statement. "The last time I had baby food, I believe I was one. Ive been on solids for about 40 years now. " The actress has shrugged off the rumours and denies the reports.

Jennifer Aniston eats solid food. Jennifer Aniston denies non-solid claims that shes on a baby food diet by Tracy Anderson. The rumors started by one report that she hired the workout coach to help maintain her trim figure.

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2010-05-12 A la Carte: Whole Foods stores roll out new healthy eating program - San Jose Mercury News

Customers are encouraged to play the numbers game, try out the Engine 2 diet - or both. At the Cupertino store, 50 employees jumped aboard "Engine 2," agreeing to try out Esselstyns vegan diet for 28 days. The result All lost pounds and clothing sizes. Many decided to stay on the no-dairy, no-oils plan for another month. Store

The Whole Foods chain is rolling out a new "Health Starts Here" initiative, and its a soup-to-nuts program: Youll find new nutritional ratings at all Bay Area stores, plus dishes cooked without oils or fats at the takeout bar; Healthy Eating Supper Clubs at Los Altos, San Mateo, Cupertino and Monterey; and, in the Oakland and Cupertino stores, a transformed eatery called Cafe Gratitude where you can snack on raw, vegan tamales, spring rolls, nut-milk shakes and more.

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The Whole Foods chain is rolling out a new "Health Starts Here" initiative, and its a soup-to-nuts program: Youll find new nutritional ratings at all Bay Area stores, plus dishes cooked without oils or fats at the takeout bar; Healthy Eating Supper Clubs at Los Altos, San Mateo, Cupertino and - Life and Style Features Food Travel Home Garden Male Call Religion Home Plates Pets

2010-05-05 Nutrisystem Proves They Do More Than Employ Old Football Players Wall St. Cheat Sheet

After plunging more than 41 pct. on the year, shares of diet products provider Nutrisystem (NTRI) popped more than 10 pct. Monday after the bell on better-than-expected earnings. The company, perhaps better known for employing retired football players, coaches and commentators than leaving frozen food on your doorstep, reported Q1 EPS of usd. 0. 15/share on usd. 159 million in revenue vs. estimates of usd. 0. 12/share on usd. 156 million. Gross margins rose to 54. 6 pct. on cuts in SGandA, but profits were still down year-over-year on a 21 pct. increase in marketing costs.

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Looks like they finally found the right amount of ex-NFL personnel to employ to turn a profit. - David gibbs david gibbs earnings nutrisystem ntri wal-mart wmt walgreens wag sams club earnings beat football players coaches commentators mail-order retail weight loss coaches

2010-05-14 The Buzz Log - Dino Diet: Jurassic Fast Food - Yahoo. Buzz

That dinosaurs didnt bother with time-consuming chewing. Chewing does have its benefits, especially for the diet conscious: It breaks the food down and takes longer to digest. But its not efficient if youre just going for intake. Also, without chewing, you dont need a big head. The small-headed

Allowed for a long neck. And, the longer the neck, the easier it was to eat up the food nearby, rather than having to haul an 80-ton bod around searching for food on the savannah.

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What was the secret to the large size of plant-eating dinosaurs Scientists say the key was eating fast food, Jurassic-style: gulping down mammoth amounts (but not mammoths) without chewing. Thats the conclusion researchers came to when studying how it was possible for plant-eaters to be just so darn big. The simple rule is, according to a story on Science Daily, the larger the animal, the more