For the seventh year in a row, the DASH diet has been named the United States’ best diet overall by U.S. News & World Report in its annual rankings. The Mediterranean [...]
When your metabolism is running like a well-oiled machine, your body is working for you. Not only can it make maintaining (or losing) weight a little easier, but maximizing [...]
How can a blood test determine if I have prediabetes? How much weight do I need to lose to bring my numbers down? Answer: Doctors typically perform one of three blood tests [...]
If weight loss is a struggle for you, you’ve probably found yourself wondering, “Why the hell am I not losing weight?!” on more than one occasion. And though [...]
You’ve heard the old advice that skipping meals is a sure-fire way to ruin a weight loss plan, but a new study presented this week at the annual Obesity Society Meeting in [...]
When it comes to losing weight, most people find it hard to change the behaviors that got them into trouble in the first place. It’s challenging to improve food habits, [...]
Cravings are no fun, but we all get hit with the occasional (or sometimes, more than occasional) urge to scarf down a sweet treat ASAP. Of course, giving in to temptation [...]
But the researchers uncovered a new piece of the puzzle that could actually be quite useful. It turns out that the intestinal bacteria associated with obesity break down [...]
Nothing’s easy when it comes to weight loss. But dropping those last 10 pounds can be extra difficult. Why is that? “As you lose weight, and especially if [...]
People have been advising others to chew their food well for a long, long time. In Ayurveda, a school of medicine founded in India some 7,000 years ago, slow and thorough [...]