The Atkins Diet was recently slated as a fad diet, which in the long term is likely to lead to weight gain. Now research has shown that low carb diets like Atkins can lead to heart disease. At the height of its popularity, the Atkins Diet attracted substantial publicity with claims of rapid weight loss [...]

Losing weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is not merely about aiming to look your best and boosting your self-confidence. It’s now become a matter of life and death. New research by the Netherlands Heart Foundation has revealed that one in three deaths from heart disease is caused by obesity. The study, which examined 10,000 [...]

It came as no surprise to me to hear that fad diets can make you fat and should be avoided, so warns Professor Chris Hawkey, president of the British Society of Gastroenterology. I’ve been on one or two of them myself and can testify to the fact that it’s possible to lose a reasonable amount [...]