weight loss

No food melts belly fat on its own — but eggs, oats, dals, nuts, and leafy greens make the calorie equation easier. Suchitra Sharma on eating for a flatter

January 12, 2015 · 2 min read

Celebrity trainer Bob Harper says it's all about diet: you can't out-train a bad diet. How the calorie deficit works — and why exercise still matters.

August 23, 2013 · 2 min read

Jared Fogle lost 245 pounds on Subway sandwiches and became a famous pitchman — then in 2015 he was convicted of child sex crimes and sentenced to over 15

June 11, 2013 · 1 min read

The 'tongue patch' diet sews a mesh patch onto the tongue to make eating painful. Doctors called it dangerous — and it was never FDA approved.

June 6, 2013 · 1 min read

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

March 1, 2013 · 2 min read

From eating breakfast to cutting white carbs, the diet strategies celebrities actually use, with honest verdicts on which ones are worth stealing.

January 10, 2013 · 3 min read

No magic, no crash diets: three rules for weight loss that actually hold up — eat honestly, move daily, and fix your sleep before your supplements.

September 26, 2012 · 1 min read

Weight loss is not magic and never instant. If the weight took months or years to put on, losing it takes time too — steady habits beat crash diets.

September 14, 2012 · 1 min read

The bathroom scale is a noisy, misleading instrument. The case for tossing it — and judging your health by behaviors instead of a number.

July 13, 2012 · 1 min read

The research on lasting weight loss points away from rigid restriction and toward sustainable plans: total calories over time matter more than banning any

July 10, 2012 · 2 min read

Family-based behavioral programs — not diets, drugs, or surgery — are the evidence-backed first line for childhood obesity. What they involve.

April 26, 2012 · 2 min read

ABC News reported on the K-E diet in April 2012: brides-to-be wore nasal feeding tubes for 10 days, fed 800 calories a day, to lose 10-20 pounds.

April 16, 2012 · 4 min read

Kim Robinshaw lost eight stone after 'virtual gastric band' hypnotherapy in 2011. A remarkable anecdote — but anecdotes are not evidence.

August 30, 2011 · 1 min read

Toning shoes, green tea extract, diet pills — the weight-loss industry sells shortcuts the evidence doesn't support. What actually works is unsellable.

August 27, 2011 · 1 min read

Professor John Speakman's energy-expenditure research found we are not less active than in the 1980s — we just eat a third more. The fork beats the treadmill.

August 9, 2011 · 2 min read

Can yoga help you lose weight? The calorie math, what research shows about yoga and long-term weight gain, and where it honestly fits.

February 24, 2011 · 2 min read

Fasted cardio burns more fat during the workout — but the long-term fat-loss advantage over fed exercise is far smaller than the myth suggests.

January 6, 2011 · 1 min read

Longer, harder workouts don't automatically mean more fat loss. What exercise science actually says about intensity, cortisol, and the fat-burning zone.

November 21, 2010 · 1 min read

Eating less is thermodynamically simple and biologically hard. Why the diet industry profits from the gap — and what works with your body, not against it.

November 14, 2010 · 2 min read

Water doesn't literally melt fat — but swapping drinks, hydrating before meals, and staying hydrated all measurably help with weight loss.

November 12, 2010 · 2 min read

Rapid weight loss costs muscle, not just fat — and the rebound is physiology, not failure. Why half a pound a week beats the crash diet.

November 9, 2010 · 2 min read

Total sugar bans tend to fail. What behavioral nutrition research actually says about sweets, moderation, and lasting weight loss.

November 8, 2010 · 2 min read