Dan Carlin - Articles

What are Fad Diets?

A diet that is written only to be followed for a short time is called categorized as one of the fad diets. Another popular culture meaning for the term is a diet that becomes wildly popular for a period of a few months to a few years, and then fades into obscurity. Read

By: Dan Carlin | 15/02/2009 | Weight Loss

What is a Diabetic Diet?

Diabetics who follow a diabetic diet can greatly increase their quality of life, and in certain cases even reverse the disease. If you're a diabetic then it's wise to cut the amount of fats and carbohydrates you consume. Read

By: Dan Carlin | 14/02/2009 | Weight Loss

What is the Dash Diet?

You may not have heard of the DASH diet, created by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to help control hypertension. In fact, DASH is short for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. In general the diet plan limits sodium intake and encourages people to eat nuts, whole grains, fish, poultry, as well as fruits and vegetables. It discourages eating red meat, sweets, and sugar. Here's more information about the DASH diet. Read

By: Dan Carlin | 14/02/2009 | Weight Loss

What is the Cookie Diet?

The cookie diet may take the cake as the world's worst ever fad diet. This diet is based on a mixture of amino acids baked into a cookie designed to control a patient's hunger. Read

By: Dan Carlin | 14/02/2009 | Weight Loss

What is the Cabbage Soup Diet?

It's very easy to describe the cabbage soup diet – FAKE. There's really no need for further explanation. But in case you're curious here is some more information. Read

By: Dan Carlin | 14/02/2009 | Weight Loss

What is the Atkins Grapefruit Diet?

There is a diet that really has nothing to do with the Atkins Diet, called the Atkins Grapefruit diet, that combines elements of it's famous namesake and an all grapefruit diet. Read

By: Dan Carlin | 14/02/2009 | Weight Loss

How Does the Atkins Diet Work?

Many people have heard of the Atkins diet, the short name for Atkins nutritional approach. It's a low-carb diet created by Robert Atkins. He put on a lot of pounds while he attended medical school. He read about this diet in the medical journal. He built on that diet and eventually made it popular. Read

By: Dan Carlin | 14/02/2009 | Weight Loss