The 5 Worst Fast Food Value Meals

A dollar meal might sound like a bargain, but is it worth the price for your health? Dietitians from The Cancer Project have taken a look at the high health cost of "value meals" at fast food restaurants, and have listed the five worst options.

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How To: Break Bad Habits and Build Good Habits

Many of Diet Blog's readers - myself included - will have made various resolutions on January 1st. From past experience, I'm sure most of us know that those great intentions don't always last very long.

Resolving to exercise more, lose weight, eat healthily and so on can lead to a constant uphill battle. If your lifestyle is naturally sedentary and your eating patterns have been constant for years, the "new you" will struggle to constantly find motivation to do things differently - old habits are hard to change.

Instead of trying to make resolutions, then, focus on making good habits - and breaking bad ones. Here's how:


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28 Tainted Weight Loss Pills

The FDA recently issued a warning about a number of tainted diet supplements. Many of the products claim to be "natural" or contain only "herbal" ingredients - but actually contain pharmaceutical ingredients.

An FDA analysis found that the undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients in some of these products include sibutramine (a controlled substance), rimonabant (a drug not approved for marketing in the United States), phenytoin (an anti-seizure medication), and phenolphthalein (a solution used in chemical experiments and a suspected cancer causing agent). Some of the amounts of active pharmaceutical ingredients far exceeded the FDA-recommended levels, putting consumers' health at risk.

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Obese Men and Fertility...


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No guy likes talking about the health of their man parts. If it wasn't for the commercialization of prostate cancer screenings, most men wouldn't even know they have a prostate.

But, despite the awkwardness, let's talk sperm! Researchers have determined obese men have lower sperm counts and lower quality sperm than leaner men.

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Weight Watchers Momentum

Weight Watchers recently unveiled a new plan: Momentum. Beneath the hyperbole, the main difference in this plan is the use of "Filling Foods, satisfying choices you can rely on to help keep hunger in check."

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Diet Coke Plus Faces FDA Warning

The Coca-Cola Company has recently come under fire by the Food and Drug Administration for its reluctance to disclose exactly what the "Plus" in Diet Coke Plus really means.

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Making Exercise a Habit

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

That quote (from Jim Rohn) was printed on the back of my gym's members card some months ago, and it's stuck in my mind ever since I first read it.

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Zone Diet Holiday Give-away

Here's your chance to win some free stuff this holiday season and perhaps shed some of those holiday pounds in the process.

Contest Details

We are asking that readers leave a comment about their New Year's resolution for 2009. Diet-Blog will pick the resolution that we feel is the most creative, innovative, but yet realistic. Please keep your post brief (under 200 words) and please check your spelling.

The contest will run for just 4 days form January 1st-4th 2009. We will choose the winner shortly thereafter.

Contest Is Now Closed. The winner will be announced shortly.

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The 10 Biggest Diet and Health Stories of 2008


Here are some of the stories, studies, fads and other foibles of the dietary world that made headlines in 2008.

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