With the holidays around the corner, travel may be on your horizon. With a little forethought you can make your travels more enjoyable, lessen your mental and physical stress and survive them without bringing home an unwanted souvenir — excess baggage around your middle.

The food choices we’re offered at the store by manufacturers make it very difficult to lose extra pounds, or keep excess fat off your body. But, research shows there’s a food you can eat for dinner that may help control…

Want the secret to easier weight loss, especially after 50? Drink more water. Burning fat isn’t magical because you drink more water. It is however something that becomes much easier for your body to do when you’re well hydrated…

What if you could eat an early supper this evening, say around 6 pm, get a good night’s sleep, and when you wake up at 6 am tomorrow morning, you’d have instantly improved your heart health and lowered your risk for diabetes? Would you try it?

You’ve probably already heard that vitamin D deficiency can throw a wrench in your efforts to lose weight. But did you know that there’s another vitamin deficiency that could be equally responsible for stubborn body fat? Here’s how to get it sorted out in time for swimsuit weather…

Harvard researchers discovered a hormone that can do amazing things for your metabolism and your health. It’s called irisin, and it can help you stay slim and strengthen your bones, if you know how to harness its power.

If you’ve ever struggled to lose weight and keep it off, you know that the battle of the bulge can be challenging. Surprisingly, a few simple, but unorthodox, tips can go a long way in helping you shrink your waistline.

It’s hard to have a sunny disposition while you exercise. You’re usually sweaty and counting the minutes until your workout is over. But, it turns out, adopting a jovial attitude might make your exercise more beneficial.

Exactly why a Paleo diet might put an end to food cravings is debatable. But if you don’t want to go on a Paleo diet, nutrition experts have come up with other methods that are supposed to be effective at curbing food cravings too…

If you’ve been struggling to lose pounds, wondering how you’ll get through week after week of dieting, there’s good news on the weight loss front: Dieting for just two days a week may actually help you lose more weight than trying to diet every day.

Winter is coming … and did you know you can use those cold temperatures to change your fat type and help melt off excess pounds?

“The immune system.” Is there a more boring phrase in health? But when the immune system fights something, that’s when things get interesting. How about fighting excess fat? That would be pretty exciting, wouldn’t it?