Know Your Diet Experts: BETTY L. KOVACS, MS, RD

Betty is a Registered Dietitian who earned her B.S. degree in Food and Nutrition from Marymount College of Fordham University and her M.S. degree in Clinical Nutrition from New York University. She is the Co-Director and Director of nutrition for the New York Obesity Research Center Weight Loss Program. She also works as a [...]

Binge Today, Diet Tomorrow. Don’t be a Yo-yo Dieter.

For 20 years, Ann Green has been a chronic yo-yo dieter—up 10 pounds, down 5, up, 5 down 10. Either she’s dieting to starvation by existing on raw vegetables and canned tuna or eating all the wrong things. For Ann, there is no in-between. Lately, though, she seems to have more “eating days” than [...]

Beware of Subtle Eating Cues

What do your place mats, wall color, compact disc player, and remote control have to do with how much you eat? Quite a bit. Here are some simple changes that you can make in your eating environment that will help you to eat less—without even thinking about it.
Set a dark table. Bright colors such [...]

A Mini – Meal Menu Sampler for Weight Conscious People

It can be little daunting to figure out how to eat all day and still lose weight, so we asked Anne Dubner, R.D., a nutritionist in private practice in Houston, to put together a sampling of daily menus to show how satisfying mini-meals can be.
The trick to losing weight on mini-meals, she says, is [...]