Tag: Weight Management

Recent studies that have found aerobic exercise can be effective in decreasing the appetite and increasing the feeling that you...

Social prejudice against overweight people is so ubiquitous that it might appear to be something built into our DNA, but...

New evidence seems to confirm what alternative health experts have been saying for years, that different types of calories affect...

New research has found that even when they are sober as a stone, men may react to stress by finding...

On August 2nd, The New England Journal of Medicine published a lead “perspective” article entitled, “Are Americans Ready to Solve...

With today’s news about ineffective vitamins, many frustrated consumers are tossing them and using diet to replace deficiencies. Unfortunately, our...

With the environmental battles we face today, proper understanding of a balanced diet and nutrition is one of the most...

Research, which took place at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, found that women at least...

New York City Mayor Bloomberg wants to pass regulations to limit the size of sodas and other sugar-laden drinks sold in...

More individuals today are looking for ways to not only lose weight, but to sustain the weight loss after a...

New research shows that obesity may be among the most important of variables when it comes to complications during pregnancy...

New research suggests that senior citizens with too much extra weight may well be at higher risk of loss of dementia.

Approximately one in three adults in France is overweight, and the rate is rising. Just between 2006 and 2009 the...

A recent study found that people on high fat diets gain less weight than people on high protein diets with equivalent...

Brown fat is body fat that burns energy, as opposed to the more typical white fat, which just stores the...

When it comes to nutrition, the medical community and so-called scientific studies may be the greatest spreaders of myth and...

Obesity statistics in the US convey a sad story:  more than two-thirds of all adults over the age of 20...

Are people whose children have become grossly overweight unfit parents? That is one of the questions brought up by the...

New research has found that the U.K. was determined to be home to the highest number of obese women in all...

According to a series of studies just published in the Journal of Consumer Research, people often opt for larger portion...

A new study out of Harvard University came to the surprising conclusion that it may indeed be possible to trigger...

A recent obesity study out of Australia has concluded that when people lose weight, their metabolism automatically slows down and...

Using data compiled from 21,743 men and 24,608 women who took a self-assessment of their health status, the scientists discovered...

A recent obesity study out of Australia has concluded that when people lose weight, their metabolism automatically slows down and...

FoodCorps is an offshoot of Americorps -- the evolution of the old VISTA program --  will train a team of...