September 2003
Weight Watcher and low carbohydrate News for
September 2003
MSNBC.com: Franchising offers swamp low-carb retailer
Rick Schott was trying to talk about his company and its plans for Greater Sacramento, but in the course of a 55-minute ...
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The Dispatch: Trying the low carb diet
I don’t how that happened. I watched my diet. I watched every French fry and every ice cream that I ate - and there we...
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Fayetteville Online: Diets cause carb confusion
Despite warnings from health experts, people are flocking to three diets - Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, The South Be...
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Sun-Sentinel: Low Carb Spicy Tuna Spread
A recipe for spicy tuna spread. Excellent for low carbohydrate/ high protein diets....
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sacbee.com: Folsom store attracts carb-conscious
New Folsom store attracts many of the carb-conscious...
Enid Baldock got hooked on the now massively popular low-carboh...
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DDN: Tips on low-carb bars
When selecting a low-carb bar, local nutrition experts offer the following tips:
* Fats: No more than five grams, ...
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DDN: Getting the lowdown on low-carb bars
Riding the popularity of pre-wrapped meals and low-carb diets, low-carbohydrate bars have started elbowing diet shakes a...
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post-gazette.com: When is a carb not just a carb?
some of the country's top-tier nutritional experts... are convinced that carbohydrates should be labeled good or bad, ju...
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CBN News: South Beach Diet Author (Agatston) Interview
PAT ROBERTSON: Joining us now, appropriately from Miami where South Beach is, to discuss the dietary changes for weight ...
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The Age: Beyonce's Dangerous Diet
Beyonce Knowles is setting a dangerous example to young girls by emphasising how little she eats in order to stay thin, ...
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heraldsun.com: Business Buzz: A stroll and a sandwich & Carb Alert
Chucking high-carb cookies and breads is easier now that a low-carbohydrate food retailer has opened at Willowdaile Shop...
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BBC News: Three million follow Atkins diet
An estimated three million people in the UK have tried the controversial Atkins Diet, suggests a poll.
The diet, whi...
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just-food.com: Heinz plans low-carb ready meals, new Ore-Ida products
US food giant H J Heinz has said it is planning new low-carbohydrate varieties of its Smart Ones frozen meals range, in ...
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The Denver Channel: Introducing: The Atkins Man
It seems every person who has tried a diet and failed is wooed by the siren call of Mr. Atkins "Eat meat, cheese, butte...
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FortWayne.com: Atkins fattens restaurants' bottom line
It is not a fad, it is a new order. And more and more, restaurateurs are seeing its effects every day: people dining un...
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dailyrecord: Atkins diet a little stale
A FARMER claims the low-carb diet was around years before the Atkins ``revolution'' took the world by storm.
Ian, of ...
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The Mirror: Atkins' widow piles on £££s
Founder of the controversial high fat Atkins diet has left his Russian wife a £20million fortune in his will.
Dr Rob...
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The Freshman "15"
Studies show by the time the school year ends at USI, 60 percent of the students will be up to eight pounds heavier. Eve...
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BostonHerald.com: Carbo unloading: Health-conscious consumers pushing low-carb
Low-carbohydrate pasta may sound like a contradiction, but don't tell that to the carb-counting consumers at the Good He...
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Madision.com: Luna Caffe's 'low-carb' Italian fare a terrific value
Luna Caffe touts itself as a "low-carb" Italian restaurant. That simply means that pasta plays less of a role in the me...
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Sun Sentinel: Chicken and Fennel with Thai Green Curry
Set a large saucepan over medium-high heat and add oil. When oil is hot, add fennel, garlic and onions and cook, stirrin...
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Mansfield News Journal: Fuel up with nutrition basics
I am continually asked about nutrition and supplements. Because there is not really a simple answer to these questions, ...
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Des Moines Register: AE's Erickson enjoys sweet success
Q.Can you say anything about these products that you're developing?
A.Well, we have some of them already developed....
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Rocky Mountain News: The low-carb craze
You know a diet has come of age when carb-bashing becomes a Hollywood norm, an Internet search unearths thousands of ant...
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East Texas Weekly: 10 reasons low-carb diet is wrong
There is no metabolic magic in low-carbohydrate diets. Those who continue to lose weight after the first week do so bec...
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theStar.com: Company Dishes Out Low Carb Ice Cream
The Toronto-based international frozen-treat maker said yesterday it has an agreement with Atkins Nutritionals Inc. to ...
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Seattle Times: Spuds Suffering in This Low-carb World
...that glamour-challenged vegetable, the potato, is gearing up for an image overhaul.
Theories abound as to why we're...
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Triangle.com: Atkins about-face
Guys take 12-packs of low-carbohydrate beer to parties now. "The South Beach Diet" and "Atkins for Life" are New York T...
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New diets, picky eaters obstacles to togetherness at dinner table
Making dinner was tough enough before Junior became a vegan and Dad got on his low-carb, meat-eater's diet. Now planning...
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FoxNews.com: Low Carb Diets Stir up Controversy
Millions of Americans who've tried the low-carb life love that the pounds come off quickly, and staff at the Atkins Cen...
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Tri-City Herald: Tri-City businesses feed on diet craze
In a nation enthralled by thin bodies, most Americans have tried everything from eating grapefruits to cabbage soup to f...
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MSNBC.com: Diet wars: Which plan is best?
Whether you count calories, fat grams, carbs, or points, your choice of weight-loss programs is bound to spark debate at...
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TCPalm.com: The real skinny on common diet myths
The path to weight loss can be difficult when it is obscured by both the ridiculous and the untrue. In fact, some of us...
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Lebanon Daily News: Supersized diet industry eyes everyone
Now it appears that a heap of our kids are too flabby, and even the family pooch has a paunch. Cats are supposed to be c...
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Quad City Times: Dr. Phil coaches RI woman on diet
Despite her meat-free diet, she continued to gain weight, and estimates she has 75 pounds she would like to lose.
“...
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Yahoo News: Better Diet Even Late in Life May Prolong It
[ A ] study, published in the Sept. 19 issue of Science, found that reducing dietary intake late in life reduced mortali...
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Newsday.com: Low-Calorie Diet Can Extend Life
It has long been known that laboratory animals live longer on a low-calorie diet. Now a study suggests that even if sen...
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Guardian Unlimited: Atkins diet can be deadly
The first official warning about the dangers of the Atkins diet has been issued by the Government amid concern about the...
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McTygue owes his weight loss to Atkins diet
Public Works Commissioner Tom McTygue firmly believes people have control over their own health. And about seven months ...
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just-food.com: UK: FSA denies issuing health warning about Atkins Diet
The UK's Food Standards Agency has said it has not issued an official health warning about the Atkins Diet, following me...
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Nothern Jersey: Is the Atkins diet right for you?
... I thought of the Atkins diet. Dr. Robert Atkins had died just a few weeks earlier, in April, prompting a new round o...
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HealthandAge: Dental-related diet change could affect health
People who change their diet when they lose their teeth may be more prone to chronic ailments, including heart problems....
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Projo.com: Atkins Dinner Party
I love bread... French bread... Crusty on the outside, soft and warm in the middle. Smeared with butter and dipped in ma...
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MSN: Dying to Be Thin
Eating disorders are striking children, especially girls, at younger and younger ages. Get the truth about this terrible...
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NetMusicCountDown: Martina's Fool-Proof Diet
Martina McBride is one performer that will never be offered an endorsement deal from Jenny Craig or weightWatchers mainl...
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Chicago Business: Low-carb craze invades workplace
At a client lunch recently, Chicago executive Tom Abrahamson found himself in a jam. It wasn’t that he’d forgotten h...
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Yahoo: Success of Atkins diet in Britain helps companies pile on the pounds
While the controversial diet theories of Dr Robert Atkins might or might not assist the overweight to shed kilos, there...
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Herald.com: Restaurants putting health on the menu
Eating out on a diet can be a major challenge. There often isn't an abundance of healthy choices on restaurant menus, an...
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Kansas City Star: Atkins diet fires up the beef industry
The hotter-than-hot Atkins diet is subtly reshaping the consumer food chain — putting sizzle in the U.S. beef market, ...
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BBC News: Girls 'do better on breakfast'
Research conducted by a health expert at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, showed that girls performed better ...
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The Statesman: Atkins Firm Launches Assault On Critics Of Diet Regime
Stung by mounting public concern about its safety, the corporation behind the low-carbohydrate regime has launched a sav...
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Gulf Daily News: Good diet improves our immune system
Good nutrition is the oldest form of medicine. It fights diseases and in the past 10 years, there has been a massive inc...
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News-Press.com: Vitamins no substitute for proper diet, officials say
Vitamins don’t actually help prevent cancer or heart disease, a government task force found.
Apparently almost half...
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WRAL.com: Duke Diet Center Launches Low-Carb Program
Registered dietitian Elizabetta Politi admits the decision was tough to swallow.
"It has been a really big dilemma," ...
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ninemsn.com: Weighing up the role of fat
"If you simply reduce the fat but add back in the calories, kilojoules or more energy by taking in more carbohydrate, mo...
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Sky News: Uma's tub of lard diet
Uma Thurman has unearthed an addictive new diet - mounds of chocolate, ice-cream and pudding....
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HealthCenterOnline: A low-sodium diet does not raise blood cholesterol levels
Reducing the amount of sodium in a person's diet does not, as some scientists have proposed, increase blood cholesterol...
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Coming Soon: Columbia Puts Fat Man on a Diet
Columbia Pictures has acquired the Mike Reiss spec script Fat Man, about an 800-pound man who drops 600 pounds with the ...
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ajc.com: Marketers rush to satisfy nation's low-carb craving
Javy Lopez can't say that cutting back on carbohydrates alone helped him hit 43 home runs and make baseball history this...
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HeraldNet: Weight loss, health gain in gym contest
Walking up the grassy slope between Carter Burns' shop and his Snohomish home gave him a workout eight months ago.
H...
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Tahoe Daily Tribune: Putting the kibosh on high cholesterol
These days it seems like everyone knows someone on the Atkins' diet, a regimen that requires eating fats and proteins in...
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