A new study from Harvard University concluded that many current weight-control tips work, while others do not.

For example, eating everything in moderation, eating fewer calories and avoiding fatty foods isn’t the best approach.

Instead, what you eat makes quite a difference. Just counting calories won’t matter much unless you look at the kinds of calories you’re eating.

Here are some other findings the scientists tested and proved about weight loss:

To guard against creeping weight gain, weigh yourself at least once a week, on the same scale under the same conditions.
Exercise alone is rarely enough to shed lots of pounds — you must change your diet.
Read package labels. Whole grains should be the first ingredient of starchy foods like bread, rice or pasta.
Fill your dinner plate mostly with vegetables, and limit consumption of red meat.
Snack on nuts or add them to dishes, but don’t get carried away; they are high in calories.
You can drink one glass of wine a day and not gain weight, but other forms of alcohol are likely to bring added pounds.

Inmates at a prison in British Columbia are said to be combining the search for a higher power with the search for a high — by smoking joints rolled in Bible pages.

Prisoners can’t obtain rolling papers under Canadian jail rules, but they’re entitled to free copies of a religious text — and in recent times, officials have seized seven partially ripped Bibles and 11 loose scripture pages from inmates suspected of drug use.

A prisons officer says, “Normally you’re allowed to have a Bible. But once you start using it for some other purpose, then that’s when [we] seize it.”

Are they or aren’t they?

Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds deny they’re a couple, but the stars were spotted on a cozy vacation together in Wyoming over the weekend. The Proposal co-stars were photographed hiking through Grand Teton National Park with Ryan carrying Sandra’s adopted son Louis in a backpack carrier.

You might recall that back in January, amid rumors of a romance, Sandra said Ryan “is not my lover. [He’s] just an amazing friend I’ve had for 10 years.”

The autopsy for Real Housewives husband Russell Armstrong has been completed, and unsurprisingly, the L.A. County Coroner says the cause of death was suicide by hanging.

Toxicology results, however, are still pending. TMZ reports that no drugs or alcohol were found in the bedroom where Taylor Armstrong’s husband was found dead Monday night.

French actor Gerard Depardieu reportedly took a wee-wee in the aisle of a plane before it took off Tuesday.

According to a passenger, the Green Card star appeared to have been drinking and said he needed to go to the restroom. He was told to wait until after takeoff, but to the astonishment of all, he just stood up and began urinating.

Gerard was reportedly escorted off the Paris-to-Dublin flight — which was delayed for two hours for cleanup.

David Letterman has been targeted by an extremist website frequented by al-Qaida.

The site reportedly urged its followers to “cut the tongue” of the late-night host because of a joke he made about accused terrorist leader Ilyas Kashmiri, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan in June.

The FBI is looking into the threat. Jim Margolin, spokesman for the bureau’s New York office, says, “We take every potential threat seriously.”

Abercrombie and Fitch wants The Situation to strip!

The company has offered to pay the Jersey Shore star NOT to wear its clothes, claiming his bad-boy image “could cause significant damage” to the brand’s “aspirational nature.” Abercrombie has also extended the offer to the rest of the cast.

It seems to be a publicity stunt since the company once sold T-shirts that read “The Fitchuation.” But it didn’t help their bottom line yesterday. After making the Situation announcement, Abercrombie stock plummeted almost nine-percent.