An overview of weight loss ideas that work and don't work.

All prominent Whole Food Plant-Based doctors have written a book on weight loss: Drs Greger, Fuhrman, Ornish, Barnard, McDougall, …

Does boosting our water intake lead to weight loss?

Calorie Counting and Portion Control are two common techniques in popular diets. When following Whole Food Plant-Based (WFPB) guidelines, we practice NO portion control (except for nuts n seeds) and NO calorie counting! Ain't that lovely?

Dr Greger's 21 Tweaks are from his book How Not To Diet (608 pages, 2019).

Dietary changes are far more effective than exercise for weight loss.

Could the bacterial colonies in our guts be responsible for weight loss? And what can we do about it? In the last 15 years, with a flood of studies centered around our microbiome, some theories have started emerging.