We’re a nation of dieters. Four in 10 of us claim that we’re trying to lose weight by trying every new diet fad, often without paying much attention to whether they really make scientific sense. In ...

The Optavia diet is an eating plan that drastically cuts calories and carbs to encourage rapid weight loss, but will be hard to maintain long-term.

How many calories you should eat a day depends on your age, sex, physical activity, and whether you are trying to maintain, gain, or lose weight.

Count calories. Or points. Or carbs. Or fat grams. Or steps. But count something. And keep a daily food record of everything you eat and tally up your count. That's the advice of nutrition experts who ...

If you're on a calorie deficit and not losing weight, health coach Jill Brown has some advice. Jill Brown We’ve all been there. You’re eating less, moving more, yet the scale refuses to budge. In a ...

A decade ago, most people had never heard of ultra-processed foods. But that changed in 2019, when Kevin Hall, then a scientist at the National Institutes of Health, published a study that shocked the ...