Health & Spirituality

Ajay Rochester says she has regained 105 pounds since winning The Biggest Loser, opening up about the pressure of being the show's public face.

McMaster's Stuart Phillips explains why lighter weights, more reps to fatigue, build muscle as well as heavy lifting — with less injury risk.

Slow metabolism or just slow habits? The honest, natural ways to nudge your metabolic rate — strength training, protein, sleep — without gimmicks.

Short sleep is strongly linked to weight gain — and lab studies show why: less sleep means more eating, especially late-night snacking. The honest evidence.

The short version: Your memory of a meal counts toward feeling full. Recalling lunch in detail reduces later snacking; eating distracted increases it.

The short version: The 5:2 diet — five normal days, two ~500-calorie days — produces weight loss, but no more than ordinary dieting.

Jennifer Love Hewitt graced Shape's March 2013 cover in a bikini, crediting Buti — a yoga-dance-plyometrics fusion — and 60 minutes of daily exercise for

Why periods trigger stubborn breakouts — and the dermatologist-backed ways to prevent them, from salicylic acid to prescription options.

British headlines in the early 2010s announced that fat transfer, injecting a patient's own fat into the face, hands, or buttocks, had become more popular than…

The nightcap is sleep's most successful con: alcohol helps you fall asleep, then fragments the night, suppresses REM, and worsens snoring.

Children who eat fast food three or more times a week appear more likely to suffer severe asthma, hay fever, and eczema.

A rodent study reported by the New York Times found that exercise blunted the memory-impairing effects of a high-fat diet. Here is what it did and did not show.

The original version of this story presented an extraordinary anecdote as fact: a woman crippled by arthritis, healed in days after a television appearance and…

A 2012 European Heart Journal study of 43,265 people found a subset of obese people at normal risk of heart disease and cancer — if they were fit.

McDonald's announced its first all-vegetarian outlets near Amritsar's Golden Temple and the Vaishno Devi shrine — a milestone for the Big Mac empire.

Cosmetic procedures promise confidence, but the brochures skip the risks. An honest look at what surgery can and cannot change, and the questions to ask first.

Women were told to fear the weight room. The men had it right all along: lift heavy, eat enough, rest — and stop doing endless cardio.

Rosie O'Donnell's August 2012 heart attack — which she nearly ignored — spotlighted how women's cardiac symptoms differ from the classic chest-clutch.

Brittany Wenger, 17, won the 2012 Google Science Fair with a neural network that detects breast cancer malignancy with 99% accuracy.

Ten fitness goals worth chasing — from a 5K to a two-minute plank to a sunrise yoga practice. A bucket list for women who want to feel strong.