On Real Housewives of New Jersey star Caroline Manzo’s daughter Lauren Manzo is on what sounds like a freaky diet. A few episodes ago we see Caroline and Lauren visit Dr. Perricone, who tells Lauren that all she can eat is liquid egg whites mixed with either berries or chocolate powder. What to the whaaaaa?

Is this supposed to be healthy?

The feeding tube diet (known as the KE diet) is the latest crazy thing women will do to lose weight. It first got press last week in a New York Times piece about the extreme things brides-to-be will do fit into their dream wedding gown. The article was cleverly titled “Bridal Hunger Games” but the [...]

The New York Post says Kim and Khloe Kardashian are facing a potential lawsuit from Bursor & Fisher law firm, which is preparing a suit against Windmill Health Products, the fitness company the family struck a deal with in 2009. (Mom Kris and sister Kourtney also participated in promoting QuickTrim, but they’re zeroing in on Kim and Khloe because they both reported losing 15 lbs on the drug.)

Snooki was tipping the scales at 126 lbs. last summer after binging on fried food and alcohol, but now she’s lost nearly 20 pounds through exercise and the diet pill Zantrex-3. Is the drug safe?

Nutrition professor Mark Haus lost 27 lbs. eating nothing put Twinkies and other snack cakes, Nuter Butters, chips, hot dogs, milk, and the occasional veggie.He helped accentuate his point by putting on weight prior to the Twinkie binge by eating lots of natural, healthy food like whole grains and veggies. So, is an overweight person [...]

Following in the footsteps of Tom Hanks and Christian Bale, who also slimmed down to shocking weights for roles, 50 Cent (real name Curtis Jackson), dropped 54 pounds from his 6 ft. frame to play a football star and cancer patient  in the upcoming movie Things Fall Apart. The rapper-turned-actor conceived of and wrote the [...]

The self-proclaimed greatest weight loss trainer in the universe Jillian Michaels has been named in a class action suit that alleges her weight loss supplement Jillian Michaels Maximum Strength Calorie Control uses false advertising when it claims “Two Capsules Before Main Meals And You Lose Weight… That’s It!” The Biggest Loser trainer has always been very vocal about hard work being necessary in any weight loss plan, so it comes as sort of a surprise that she would put her name on an “easy solution” dietary product.

Read the plaintiff’s claims and other details from the suit!

I’ve been very open about my Kim Kardashian curve lurve in previous posts, so needless to say I was quite distressed when I saw the most recent image the formerly curvaceous vixen uploaded to Twitpic with the accompanying caption: “Quick Trim photo shoot today in Miami! I finally feel I’ve reached my goal!”

She apparently gets her diet advice from homeless alcoholics.