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.

Water retention makes you feel puffy and stiff. It’s the first thing you lose when you diet, and the first thing to come back. It’s annoying, irritating, bothersome… and totally unnecessary. So it’s time to send it down the drain once and for all…

The fat on your belly may be much more likely to kill you than bacon, sausage, or the “red meat” the mainstream is so concerned about.

If you’re trying to lose excess fat but can’t quite overcome hunger and cravings, you can help your body out by eating the right kind of fiber. But it’s not about soluble vs insoluble fiber, as you’ll see in a minute.

The holiday season has begun and Halloween is one of my favorites. That means there may be enough candy to binge on for days and weeks in my house soon, and all that sugar is not good for one person. So the dilemma I’m facing: What to do with all this candy? Try this…