dieting

  • What to Do After Your Fad Diet Fails

    What to Do After Your Fad Diet Fails

    Diets tend to fail, and the ones that promise quick weight loss through following one weird trick are especially doomed to failure. If you’ve just been on one of them, don’t just hop on a different fad diet; instead, take a minute to reflect on what you’ve learned, and make a plan to eat healthier…


  • The Pros And Cons Of Whole30 Diets

    The Pros And Cons Of Whole30 Diets

    The Whole30 diet declares swaths of food off-limits, and sets up ironclad rules about the little that’s left. That means it checks a lot of boxes for a fad diet or one that’s too draconian to be effective. But there’s good here too, enough that it might help if you know what you’re in for.


  • Keto Warning: Stop Gorging On Bacon And Butter

    The keto diet limit’s a person’s carbohydrate intake to about 5% of daily calories. Dieters load up on anywhere from 70-90% fats. Keto dieters can gorge on all kinds of fat, both saturated and unsaturated. However, there’s evidence that diets high in animal fats are really bad for people, and for the planet, too.


  • Your DNA Results Can Screw Up Your Workout

    Your DNA Results Can Screw Up Your Workout

    Clearly, some amount of fitness is genetic: You can’t expect everybody who follows the same workout to have identical results. It’s tempting to get tested to see whether you personally have the same genes as elite sprinters or weightlifters. But DNA tests can’t tell you much about your fitness, and it turns out that knowing…