Welcome to weight focus, the Web's premiere source for diet & weight loss information. Learn about various diets and diet plans such as the low fat diet or the low carb diet. You will also find information on weight loss surgey options such as bariatric surgery. Weight focus tries to give you the information you need to make the right decisions about your diet & weight loss needs.

Popular Diets: What's the Best Approach? Low-fat vs. low-carb. The battle lines are drawn. But which is the best diet for losing weight? Learn how to tell one diet from another and how to cut through the hype. Read Transcript >>		When Dieting is a Bust: Surgical Options for Weight Loss Diet and exercise have long been considered the only effective way to lose weight. But in recent years, a third way-surgery-has emerged for certain men and women who are severely obese. This option, known as bariatric surgery, can result in dramatic weight loss. Read Article >>

Take a walk through your local bookstore and you will be bombarded with high-protein diets. Bacon and eggs for breakfast. Fried chicken for dinner. Eat all the cheese and steak you want. Most of these diets allow unlimited quantities of fat and protein, but do not allow carrots or potatoes. In addition to promoting weight loss, such diets claim that they will improve your health by lowering cholesterol, blood pressure, and risk for diabetes. Sound too good to be true? It is! High-protein diets are the rage now, having made a comeback from their heyday in the 1960s and 70s. The diet pendulum seems to swing from low-fat, high-carbohydrate to high-protein, low-carbohydrate. Low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets were popular until many people realized that they were gaining, not losing weight. But the real reason for the weight gain was that, in our obsession with avoiding fat, we overloaded our diets with fat-free foods, often in oversized portions and, although low in fat, they were still full of calories from other sources. As a result, a backlash against carbohydrates has occurred and the pendulum has swung back to high-protein diets. What are these diets all about? Do they actually promote weight loss? Are they safe? Read More...

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