Look, I’ll be straight with you – eating only 800 calories a day sounds pretty extreme, and honestly? It kind of is. Most of us need somewhere between 1200-2000 calories just to keep our bodies ...

A new diet plan is making headlines for its extremely low calorie target—just 800 a day, less than what you’d get from a cheeseburger and fries. Supporters claim it leads to rapid weight loss and may ...

For years, public health authorities, such as the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (ADN), recommended that people with diabetes use an “exchange list” to ...

Dropping down the numbers on the scale is good, it keeps your body fit and moving as well, but at what cost? Is an 800-calorie diet really enough and is it even sustainable? The scientific answer to ...

If you have been advised to go on a low-calorie diet, you may be scratching your head trying to understand exactly what it entails. Since there is no true definition of the term “low-calorie diet,” ...

The CICO diet is a simple concept of "calories in, calories out." The idea has been around for ages. But its nickname, CICO, is new. It's an easy way to lose weight in the short term. “It’s simple ...