Dieting

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  • Faux-carb taste test

    Salon persuades four foodies to open wide for some unappetizing low-carb foods spawned by the Atkins-South Beach craze.
    By Rebecca Traister May 11, 2004

  • Journey to the "planet of thin"

    The author of "Passing for Thin: How I Lost Half My Weight and Found Myself" talks about a lifetime of physical and psychic pain brought on by her weight, and even after losing 188 pounds, how far she still has to go.
    By Kera Bolonik March 17, 2004

  • Vegans vs. Atkins

    Animal-rights activists claim that low-carb, meat-heavy diets are killing people. Are they raising legitimate health concerns -- or are they just rabid anti-carnivores?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski December 8, 2003

  • Hackers on Atkins

    Geeks who go low-carb see it as more than just taking off pounds -- they're reengineering the human organism, overclocking their own bodies.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 30, 2003

  • No free lunch

    Americans who can't afford to eat are harming the vital raw food and low-carb grocery industries -- and giving high-class dieters a bad name.
    By Joyce McGreevy September 22, 2003

  • "Fat Land" by Greg Critser

    In America, fat and poor go together. A new book looks at why.
    By Laura Miller January 9, 2003

  • Nonfat love in a big-box store

    The wife and I take separate carts in the land of bulk peppermint patties.
    By Stephen J. Lyons January 8, 2002

  • Overfed and undernourished

    Health guru Gary Null says everything about the American diet is an abomination, a continuous trade of health for convenience that has to be stopped.
    June 5, 2001

  • Thin like me

    I'm not anorexic, I don't diet and I don't spend hours at the gym. I'm just naturally slim; deal with it.
    By Tammie Hall December 5, 2000

  • Fat like mommy

    My mother always told me I was fat. Then I realized that she was afraid she was.
    By Anne Burt December 5, 2000

  • Swallowing ephedra

    The wildly popular herbal diet aid can be dangerous for some people. But don't expect the FDA to crack down.
    By Shannon Brownlee June 7, 2000

  • Rio Carnival's 398-pound king put on a diet

    His doctor pleads with "King Momo" to lose weight.
    By J.A. Getzlaff February 11, 2000

  • Why I stopped being a vegetarian

    It's anti-social, not necessarily healthful -- and besides, meat tastes good!
    By Laura Fraser January 7, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    Will the free market reward art and education? Plus: Gauging "the Philadelphia effect"; Americans are fat because we're lazy and eat bad food.
    Letters to the Editor November 17, 1999

  • I'm obese, you're obese

    The Fat Guy munches on doughnuts while figuring out whether he is fat or obese.
    By Steven A. Shaw November 10, 1999

  • Eating Satan's footprints

    What can the onion and garlic diet do for you? Ask, rather, what you can do for Macedonia.
    By Susan McCarthy October 29, 1999

  • "Fat guys kick ass"

    If I ate less, I'd lose weight. But I don't, because I love food.
    By Steven A. Shaw October 15, 1999

  • Going right through you

    The diet pill Xenical reduces fat absorption, but may cause unpleasant side effects.
    By Sharon Lerner June 30, 1999

  • The wages of thin

    "The Skinny" wants to be the world's first humorous diet book, but it's weighed down by its own neuroses.
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams June 14, 1999

  • Is meat sexy?

    Vegetarians may not be getting enough zinc -- or lovin'.
    By Dawn MacKeen June 1, 1999

  • Drama Queen for a Day: diets of doom

    Of cabbage, pills and fried meat: This month's Drama Queen candidates tell unsavory tales of weight loss determination
    By Salon Staff April 2, 1999

  • Drama Queen for a Day: Diets of doom

    This month's Drama Queen contest announces the winning weird declaration of love and asks, What diet ruined your appetite?
    March 11, 1999

  • Didgeridoo

    A new member of the big, comfy underpants set ponders why women are ostracized for 'letting themselves go.
    By Anne Lamott March 4, 1999

  • Turtle time

    By Anne Lamott October 15, 1998

  • The Surreal Gourmet: Hanukkah soup

    The Surreal Gourmet By Bob Blumer Chicken soup with matzo balls is a Hanukkah meal that Jews and gentiles alike will enjoy.
    By Bob Blumer December 19, 1997
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