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Much as I love the idea of the pizza diet, I don't see it taking off. As you may have heard -- it's received quite a bit of press over the past several months -- Matt McClellan, a St. Petersburg, Fla., pizzeria owner, has been championing what he calls the "pizza diet." He says that he's lost 24...

Pharmaceutical company Vivus and investors waited anxiously Thursday for the vote of an FDA advisory panel on the weight-loss drug Qnexa. The verdict is in, and by a vote of 9 to 7, panelists didn't support approving the drug as an obesity treatment.

A major marketer of dietary supplements has agreed to refund consumers a total of $5.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission accusations that it falsely claimed its products could help buyers lose weight and treat or prevent colds, flu and allergies. The proposed settlement was the agency's...

You know it gives you a morning buzz and makes that wait in the Starbucks line worth it. But here's something you may not have realized about coffee: New research has concluded that coffee helps cut the risk of head and neck cancers. The latest findings, cited in the trade publication Cancer...

The bodybugg system, best known from the NBC show The Biggest Loser, is designed to keep track of the calories you burn execising and doing normal life tasks. It also helps you track what you eat. The result for the dedicated user of this body bug? Losing weight and gaining endurance. (We had...

"The turkey you're eating," my brother told me as I bit into my sandwich, "is actually tofu. And the cheese is actually rice cheese." That's probably the most memorable thing I heard during week 21 of "The Money Diet." I was on a hike with my brother, Kevin, and we were sitting on a bench on the...

I'm thinking a lot about serving sizes this week. Several days ago, I went to the grocery store and bought a low-fat garden vegetable lasagna frozen meal. Made by a company called Cedarlane, it was very tasty and pretty healthy (I have no beef with the food and am not really looking to pick a...

I have a new theory about food, one I developed after watching some ducks in my neighborhood. We have these two ducks that seem to live on our street, which is your typical suburban street that's more or less in the Ohio countryside. There's a nondescript lake about a 10-minute walk away, where I...

Consumption of tuna, the most commonly eaten fish in the United States, accounts for one-third of mercury exposure from eating seafood, a new study shows. The study is in this month's issue of the journal Environmental Research, and shows that mercury content varies widely depending on the...

There's an episode from the last season of King of Queens that I kept thinking about this week. Doug Heffernan, played with impeccable comic timing by Kevin James, is a character who loves his fast food burgers, chips and other assorted junk foods. Well, in this particular episode, he almost hits a...