You think you eat right and stay active, but the pounds just don’t come off — or at least not as fast as you’d like them to. If the situation sounds familiar, [...]
Your genes can help tell you what to eat and influence how diet affects your health. Variants in some of our genes determine how we metabolize and utilize nutrients, a field [...]
Are extra pounds an inevitable consequence of a fun-filled vacation? They don’t have to be, according to Harley Pasternak, an exercise physiologist, nutritionist and [...]
Most of us can slot our overall build into one of three general categories, or somatotypes, recognizing that there are a wide variety of shapes and sizes even within these [...]
By now you’ve probably heard that obesity increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes. But you might not know that the extra weight can have other serious health [...]
When most people pick a diet, they’re hoping they can trim a few inches off their waistlines. But there’s at least one diet out there that may be able to [...]
Remember those New Year’s resolutions you made with such optimism just a few months ago? If you’re like most people, you’ve abandoned your vows to lose weight and [...]
A drug that slowed ageing and protected the body from diseases such as cancer would no doubt cause considerable excitement around the world. While there is no such miracle [...]
A new meta-analysis may force us to reconsider the benefits of probiotics on our overall health. A team of researchers from Taizhou, China has conducted a study and found [...]
The diet regime of intermittent fasting recently caught my attention when listening to an episode of This American Life. And then a close friend told me he’s planning to [...]