Weight loss doesn’t have to be grueling, depressing or discouraging. It can be easy, fun, painless and permanent. 41 percent of Americans claim to be on a diet at any given time. But people who lose weight slowly are more likely to keep the weight off. Most people try drastic fad diets that they grow tired of quickly. Actually losing weight slowly is healthier and easier. Incorporate these changes to your f ...

Decadent hot-fudge brownie sundaes, greasy chili cheese fries, and ooey-gooey pizza—sometimes it’s hard to resist the temptation of these delicious, high-calorie, sodium- and sugar-laden foods. If your junk-food cravings are taking over and it’s affecting your mood or your weight-loss goals, here are some ways to control your desire for not-so-healthy foods. Set some limits. Going cold turkey and restrictin ...

Dinner Mistakes, Dinner Tips, Healthy DinnerWhile breakfast and lunch are often consumed alone or on the go, dinner is the most likely a group activity. That means it's very often more fraught with social conventions, family patterns, end-of-day exhaustion and other distractions than any other mealtime. But it's also a really important meal to get right. Nutrition experts as Lawrence J. Cheskin, M.D., direc ...

The University of Missouri has conducted a study, which revealed that protein-rich breakfast will help people to loose wieght and to keep fit. The Breakfast Study An experiment was conducted with 20 obese women, 18 - 20 years old, who were divided into groups. The first group did not eat breakfast, the second group consumed protein foods (eggs and meat), and the third group ate the usual breakfast, like cer ...

Some of the most popular assumptions about weight loss are just not true, a new study finds. Researchers sought the supporting scientific evidence for a variety of widely believed truths about obesity. They found that false and scientifically unsupported beliefs about the topic are pervasive in both the scientific literature and the popular press. Try to identify the myths in this list:     Small changes in ...

Today we bring you the most interesting news of the week about the figure, food, and diet. While sandwiches are recognized a harmful food, and the packaging of unhealthy foods will contain threatening inscriptions, there is good news, too: eating before going to bed is not so bad for the figure. Canadian doctors from the Medical Association of Ontario want to fight harmful food just as they fight cigarettes ...

So-called "yo-yo" dieting -- where people repeatedly lose weight by dieting, only to regain the weight -- may be frustrating, but it will not hurt a person's ability to lose weight over the long term, a new study finds. This type of "weight cycling" does not have a negative effect on metabolism, the study found. The findings may be significant, the experts added, because yo-yo dieting affects up to 40 perce ...

Lately we've heard the only thing that matters to your waistline is how much you eat. But there's a growing body of research that says when you eat really does make a difference in how much you weigh. "Your body is more prone to burn fat at certain times of day and store fat at other times," says Satchin Panda, PhD, associate professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, ...

The battle of the bulge has been a big, fat failure for U.S. drugmakers. But that hasn't stopped them from trying. For nearly a century, scientists have struggled to make a diet pill that helps people lose weight without side effects that range from embarrassing digestive issues to dangerous heart problems. But this week, federal health advisers endorsed the weight loss pill Qnexa even though the FDA previo ...

US golfing star Michelle Wie said she is feeling healthier after embarking on a gluten-free diet, inspired partly by the success story of tennis world number one Novak Djokovic. "I heard that story that he turned gluten free and became number one in the world," Wie on Tuesday told a press conference in Singapore ahead of the $1.4-million HSBC Women's Champions tournament starting Thursday where she will be ...