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Recent study found it’s no more a “miracle” solution for weight loss than regular diets are.
Many foods that seem healthy contain various hidden fats, sugars and salts. If you’re trying to lose weight, it pays to know where they’re hiding.
Diets that promise drastic results with minimal effort, or that ban whole food groups, should ring alarm bells.
Just what role does exercise play in weight loss? Plenty. While word has spread in recent years that physical activity isn’t all that important, a doctor debunks that myth.
Does it seem like everyone you know drinks apple cider vinegar, mainly in hopes of losing weight? Vinegar has a long history of high hopes attached to it. A doctor who loves vinegar explains.
Spoiler alert: kilojoules affect weight gain more than your genes or gut bugs.
Anorexia nervosa can be a deadly disease. A recent analysis of several studies showed that it may be even harder to treat than previously believed. But the news isn’t all bad.
How people lose weight when they’re doing it on their own.
Until the league stops pressuring players over their weight, token measures to address mental health concerns will have a limited impact.
Many mothers experience body dissatisfaction after birth. Dieting is not the answer.
Eating celery, grapefruit and cucumber to lose weight is not a bad idea, just don’t think that you’re consuming negative calories.
Can a ketogenic diet really help you lose weight? Here’s what the research says.
Trainers and fitness gurus often tell their charges how to ‘burn fat.’ But what does that actually involve? Here’s a Speed Read on something that actually takes a fairly long time.
For some people, self-weighing could be the key to losing or keeping weight off; while for others, it may do harm.
New research has discovered brain receptors that sense heat also play a hand in appetite.
Today it’s estimated that we take in about five times as much information as we did 25 years ago, and that we process as much data in a day as our 15th century ancestors would have in their lifetime.
Kim Kardashian West comes under fire for promoting an appetite-suppressing lollipop on social media.
People are often disappointed when exercise doesn’t translate into weight loss. Here are four reasons it might not be happening for you (yet).
Our body burns more fat when we exercise before breakfast, but studies haven’t found that means we lose more weight over time.
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Clinical Trials Director, Department of Endocrinology, RPA Hospital, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Associate, Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor of Nutrition, University of Surrey
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Honorary Associate Professor, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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