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Bikini Body in 2 Weeks

Volleyball player and fashion model, Gabrielle Reece, gave Yahoo! readers a great workout for getting that summertime bikini body.... more

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Blake Lively: Diet and Exercise

Although Blake Lively is known for wearing skimpy outfits on the set of Gossip Girl, the 21-year-old star confesses that she... more

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10 Celebrities Who Are Insanely Healthy

Even if you love them or hate them, you can’t deny that celebrities have rocking bodies. They put major effort into looking... more

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Gabrielle Reece: Master Cleanse Diet

Gabrielle Reece wrote about the benefits of doing a yearly cleanse, in particular, she practices the Master Cleanse method. She... more

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Answering questions about organic

In the year since I have been writing this column, readers have sent in many questions about organic foods. With the White House... more

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Study confirms increase in wheat gluten disorder

A Minnesota study using frozen blood samples taken from Air Force recruits 50 years ago has found that intolerance of wheat... more

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Sip 'n starve: Dangerous diets in disguise

Leigh-Allyn Baker sits in a West Hollywood café, slowly stirring whipped cream into her Americano. A working actress with credits like “Will & Grace” and “My Name Is Earl” under her belt, the Kelly Ripa look-alike is six and a half months pregnant and highly conscious of the calories she’s about to consume. “Dieting is still always in the back of my mind,” Baker admits. “Really I wanted a latte, but it had too many empty calories.”

During the 14 years she has worked in Hollywood, the 35-year-old has endured constant pressure to be movie-star slim. At one audition that called for a woman who felt comfortable being on screen in a bathing suit, a casting director scoffed at the sight of the 5-foot-2-inch, 110-pound actress in her bikini, rolled her eyes and said, “You think you’re thin?”

“If you’re an actress, you’re always on one diet or another — it’s a way of life,” Baker says, sighing. She has suffered through juice-only fasts such as the master cleanse, attempted a raw-food diet and other food-restriction plans, popped phentermine and Prozac and tried drastically slashing calories. When she got pregnant, Baker was elated that she could buy previously off-limit foods. “The first two things I was going to indulge in were a sweet potato and a banana, and I remember thinking, That’s really messed up — it’s a big extravagant hurrah to have a banana now?”
Welcome to Los Angeles, perhaps the only place on earth where a piece of fruit is, well, forbidden. Talk to your average Angeleno, and odds are you’ll hear a history like Baker’s, one riddled with a variety of extreme weight loss attempts: fasts and detoxes, pills and painfully restrictive menus. L.A. women live in the entertainment capital of the world, where beauty standards are unrealistically high and the ultimate compliment is “Omigod, you’re so tiny!”

“Most women here are at all times either on a diet, thinking about one, reading about one or hearing about one their friends are on,” says Kathy Kaehler, a fitness and food coach in L.A. who works with Julia Roberts and other celebrities. But there’s a hitch. Even in this city, if you go on too many diets, your friends will start to think that you’re vain, have an eating disorder or are just plain annoying. As a result, women here are — superficially, anyway — forswearing dieting and embracing a new euphemism for it: cleansing. Sure, you’re still expected to fit into those size 00 jeans, but instead of just being super skinny, now you’re supposed to be skinny and healthy.

The problem for the rest of us is that what happens in Los Angeles never stays in Los Angeles for long. For better or worse, any weight loss craze there will spread, inevitably, to the rest of the country, thanks to the blogs, TV shows, tabloids and tweets that obsessively monitor the bodies of Hollywood celebs. During one week this past January, for example, OK! and two other celebrity weeklies dedicated a total of 15 pages to the hottest Hollywood diet fads, including vegan, Izo Cleanze and master cleanse. When Anne Hathaway went on a 48-hour lemonade detox before the Golden Globes, the news was splashed across the pages of People. “That’s how the ripple effect across the country begins,” Kaehler says. “If someone out here is drinking lemon juice and dropping pounds, Lisa in Nebraska will hear about it and start drinking lemon juice.”

In reality, however, lemon juice is not a meal, and taken to extremes, cleansing is anything but healthy. Nor is it an effective way to drop pounds for good. To reach this contradictory healthy-skinny ideal, L.A. ladies have developed some disordered techniques that cross old-school self-starvation with New Age mind-body rhetoric. And these techniques will probably land in your town soon — if they haven’t already.Leigh-Allyn Baker sits in a West Hollywood café, slowly stirring whipped cream into her Americano. A working actress with... more

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Cheryl Burke: Workout

Dancing with the Stars Cheryl Burke is looking sexier than ever. Sure, she had a moment with the tabloids this year when they... more

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Beyonce: Diet Tips

Beyonce Knowles, always fit and always fabulous, gave some diet advice to the readers of SELF Magazine. She trains five days a... more

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6 Health Detoxification Facts You Must Know BEFORE You Try It

Health Cleansing or Detoxification as it is often referred to is one of the latest crazes when it comes to dieting – but... more

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Where diets go wrong

The first reaction of most people who discover that theyve put some weight on is to eat less food. It sounds simple enough and... more

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Julianne Hough diet and exercise

Julianne Hough is on the July cover of Shape magazine along with LeAnn Rimes and Martina McBride. Inside the three country music... more

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Martina McBride Diet

Martina McBride is on the July cover of Shape magazine along with LeAnn Rimes and Julianne Hough. Looking ever so beautiful, she... more

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Dismisses Plagiarism Claim

Just a couple of months ago Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the self-diagoned Celiac’s disease sufferer and co-host on The View,... more

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The Traffic Light Diet

The Traffic Light Diet relies on what may probably be the best - known color code around to teach the user which foods should be... more

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United Kingdom Talk Video Thursday 25th June 2009

Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch or listen to the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs &... more

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Woman goes three years without eating

A woman has gone three years without swallowing a single mouthful of food, she has said. Trudy Sharp, 43, has digestion... more

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Fast Food: Would You Like 1,000 Calories with That?

How sloppy is that triple Whopper with cheese? It has 1,250 calories, or 62.5% of the recommended 2,000-calories-per-day diet. The Fried Macaroni and Cheese from the Cheesecake Factory? Try 1,570 calories--according to health experts, you're better off eating a stick of butter. If public-health advocates, and now the Senate, get their way, when you look at a menu from a chain restaurant, those calorie counts will be staring you down. "Order me if you dare," the mighty Quesadilla Burger from Applebee's (1,440 calories) may entreat. Spurred by the passage of a slew of state and local menu-labeling laws, on June 10 the Senate reached a bipartisan agreement to include a federal menu-labeling law as part of comprehensive health-care reform. Of course, who knows when that hornet's nest will come up for a vote. But in the meantime, health proponents are likening the Senate provision to legal requirements for a clothing label--i.e., what it's made of. "Isn't information that can help you avoid obesity and diabetes as important as knowing how to wash your blouse?" says Margot Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the nonpartisan Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Until recently, the restaurant industry had been pushing a federal bill that would require chains with 20 or more restaurants nationwide to post calorie information somewhere near the point of purchase but not on the menu itself. The industry claimed menu postings would be a costly logistical burden and would clutter valuable real estate on the menus. Not surprisingly, chains won't voice the most obvious argument against high-profile calorie counts. "They're concerned that consumers will be turned off by what they see," says Tom Forte, restaurant analyst at the Telsey Advisory Group, a consulting firm.

In the end, the industry backed the Senate's on-the-menu provision in an effort to pre-empt a patchwork of state and local statutes (13 have passed, and 30 or so more have been introduced). Such legislation would prevent a municipality from requiring both calories and, say, saturated fat to be tallied on menus. (The fried macaroni and cheese at the Cheesecake Factory has a staggering 69 grams of saturated fat--more than you should eat in 3½ days.)

As the menu-labeling momentum keeps surging, will such policy really improve eating habits? Well, it can do no worse than what's out there. In a study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health, researchers observed 4,311 patrons of McDonald's, Burger King, Starbucks and Au Bon Pain to see if they accessed in-store nutrition data. The info was not on the menu board but in a pamphlet, on a wall poster or an on-site computer. Only six, or 0.1%, of the patrons looked at the numbers. Sure, a few more may have already studied the information. But six out of 4,311? If restaurants are sincere about health, they need to put calorie counts on the menu, straight in the customers' sight lines.How sloppy is that triple Whopper with cheese? It has 1,250 calories, or 62.5% of the recommended 2,000-calories-per-day diet. The... more