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More Than a Diet Myth? Dark Chocolate/Cacao Won't Get You Jacked, but it May Help Maintain a Slim Waist Over Time

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Dark  chocolate & body comp? I am not a fan of referring to the hierarchy of evidence ( Haidich 2010 , Figure 1 ) to justify discussing a meta-analysis (in itself a mix of statistical data analysis and, you guessed it, the discussion of individual RCTs and/or observational studies) but I guess in the case of the putative weight-loss benefits of dark chocolate, I can make an exception. How come? Well, if you do a cursory review of the experimental evidence you will realize pretty soon that the term "conflicting" is not strong enough to describe what you see. Accordingly, I am grateful that a group of Iranian researchers conducted a meta-analysis of all relevant RCTs investigating the impact of cocoa/DC on body weight, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC). You can learn more about chocolate and cacao at the SuppVersity Chocolicious Statin 4 Women Real Cacao Delicious + More The Chocolate Diet for Women Cacao for the Gut Micro...
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Water Before Meals Doubles Weight Loss Success - Study Said to Confirm Diet Myth Gets Falsely Overgeneralized

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Could this large glass of water really be the "diet game changer" some mainstream media make it look like? Or, are we - once again - dealing with the abuse of science to attract readers by propagating dubious dieting myths? The advice to "drink a glass of water before every meal" is about as old as human efforts to lose weight. Yet despite the fact that an increase in daily water consumption is widely advocated as a useful tool to aid weight loss and even included in popular weight loss programs like Weight Watchers , there is, according to the latest systematic review of the association between water consumption and body weight,  little evidence to support this practice outside of energetically restricted interventions (Muckelbauer. 2013). In other words: While we do have evidence that replacing caloric beverages with water/diet beverages works (Tate. 2012), we have little evidence that simply drinking more will accelerate weight loss and almost no evidence...
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