Articles — low glycemic

Q: My struggles started about 10 years ago. I am not a healthy eater, so every couple of years I had about 5-10 pounds to lose. I would stick to the Weight Watchers points system. That was always very successful for me. In 2005, I again did the points system to lose some weight, and I didn't lose anything. After doing it for 2 months and exercising daily, I still didn't lose one ounce. I figured I'd try again in a few months. Well again, I tried about 6 months later. I didn't lose anything. About one year later I was...

Q: How does the Protein Boost Diet differ from the Ideal Protein Diet? A. There are many weight loss diets that focus on the concept that eating high protein meals will result in successful weight loss. One of them is the Ideal Protein diet, a commercial weight loss program that uses an eating plan consistent with that fundamental. Another high protein diet is the Dukan diet, very popular in Europe and the United States. High protein diets do work as far as weight loss but usually result in an imbalanced diet. Another example includes low glycemic diets, which work but do...