Yo-yo dieting can easily become an endless cycle: the more you diet, the more weight you gain in the long run. But that’s not the only thing working against you. Your microbiome begins sabotaging your weight loss efforts too…

Eating less junk food is one of the hardest things to do — especially around the holidays when everywhere you look you see a bowl of candy, a plate of cookies or some cheesy, carb-filled appetizer. Even if you promise to stay strong, more often than not, you give in to temptation.

If you’re struggling to achieve a healthy weight by the diet and exercise method, but have been unsuccessful, where should you turn? These days there is no shortage of advice available…

Dieticians have pushed a huge myth on the trusting American public — that the only way to lose weight and avoid diabetes and heart disease was to eat a low calorie, low-fat diet. But now there’s a different philosophy of eating that represents one of the biggest threats to this myth…

You know what’s cool? Spending less time exercising but burning more calories. This is the way to do it! But is lack of motivation holding you back? Grab your headphones — they could make all the difference…

Body mass index … the BMI … is completely useless. It can’t even tell you if you’re overweight. The BMI is even more useless when it comes to determining potentially serious health risks. Here’s the latest proof …

It’s exciting when your efforts to lose weight finally pay off and you lose your first few pounds. You look great and feel great — so great that you want to keep eating well and exercising for the foreseeable future. But then something terrible happens…

When you’re trying to keep your weight down, counting calories may be one of the worst ways to go about it. Instead, you should switch to the kinds of nutrient-dense foods that make you feel full after every meal, and watch the pounds come off.

Of course, the longer you do something, the more accustomed you get to doing it, the easier it gets. But there’s a more exciting reason healthy living gets easier with time…

Research at Emory University suggests that if you have a hard time keeping your weight where you want it, there is an oversized organ that has grown too large to let our digestive system adapt to its demands.

If you want to boost your brainpower, there’s an easy way. Feed your brain a little less. This sounds counterintuitive, but this doesn’t mean starve your brain. It means avoid…

If you spend long hours working at a desk, driving your car, or not moving very much, research at Kansas State University shows a way to activate an enzyme in your body to burn off more fat as you work.