If early returns are any measure, ““Extreme Weight Loss” is the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center’s gain. And as with weight loss itself, reaping the rewards took a lot of hard work. Four million viewers tuned into the show’s fourth-season premiere on May 27 – an 8 percent increase over the prior season’s kickoff. The second…

You probably heard about a new study published in the journal Obesity, which says diet drinks can help people lose more weight than drinking plain water. But you’ve probably also read time and time again that diet soda drinkers are more likely to be obese. One report found that two-can-a-day diet drinkers had a 54…

Several observational studies have suggested that drinking diet soda may encourage weight gain, but a new randomized trial finds that it is not so.   Read More

(NEW YORK) — After years of getting harangued about their favorite beverage, it appears diet beverage drinkers have finally gotten the last laugh. But don’t get too cocky. A new study says that diet drinks were shown to be more efficient at helping people lose weight than drinking water.   Read More

Most people choose artificially-sweetened soda over regular soda to avoid packing on extra pounds. But what if you already choose diet? Would it be helpful to quit that too? Dr. Jim Hill says he gets this question all the time from patients in his weight loss program at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Health and Wellness…

Diet beverages can help you lose weight, according to a new paper published today in the journal Obesity. The results contradict a number of other recent studies that indicated drinking diet soda may actually cause a person to gain weight. The new study, which was fully funded by the American Beverage Association, looked at whether drinks such…

People taking part in a weight loss program did better over 12 weeks if they drank diet soda than if they drank only water, researchers reported Tuesday. Among the 303 dieters, the people who drank only water lost 8.4 pounds; those who drank diet soda lost 12.1 pounds, and they reported “significantly greater reduction in…

You see it on TV all the time: People losing hundreds of pounds, going from couch potatoes to athletes, transforming themselves into different (and happier) human beings. How do they do it when most people struggle to lose 10 or 15 pounds? Big weight loss requires big lifestyle changes that stick for more than a…

May 27, 2014 – A groundbreaking new study to be published in the June issue of Obesity, the journal of The Obesity Society, confirms definitively that drinking diet beverages helps people lose weight. “This weight loss clinical trial clearly demonstrates diet beverages can in fact help people lose weight, directly countering myths in recent years that…

Whatever your opinion of reality shows, one thing is for sure: They know how to work a cliffhanger. Information being a big reveal’s worst enemy, here’s what we’re able to share about Tuesday’s season four premiere of “Extreme Weight Loss,” the ABC series chronicling the yearlong, weight-loss odyssey of a group of “dangerously obese” men…