Diets/Dieting

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HealthWatcher.net Consumer Health Watchdog
Web site which seek to expose quackery and bogus practices in health care, including cancer quackery and diet scams.
National Council Against Health Fraud
Focusing on health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems. Our positions are based upon the principles of science that underlie consumer protection law. We advocate: (a) adequat...
Quackwatch
Purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere. Includes links to other i...

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Dieting
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Dieting is the practice of ingesting food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight.
Obesity
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Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems.