Memory is affected by weight gain, according to fascinating research that might just provide us with yet another reason to pay closer to what we...

Memory is affected by weight gain, according to fascinating research that might just provide us with yet another reason to pay closer to what we...
Body positive weight loss can sound like an oxymoron. After all, if you’re trying to change the way you look, are you really embracing this...
Brown fat is a part of our bodies that seems extremely counterintuitive. After all, most of us think about weight loss as a process of burning off...
When you think of cutting back on calories, the first goal that comes to mind isn’t necessarily to help your metabolism, right? According to new research, your waistline isn’t the only thing that can benefit from a moderate reduction to your regular caloric intake.
Are you where you were hoping you would be when it comes to your progress toward the successful completion of your January weight loss goals? If you’ve set yourself up properly, then you definitely have better odds than if you decided to wing it.
Turtle doves and partridges in pear trees are all well and good, but an even better gift to focus on during the 12 Days of Christmas is how to stick to your diet throughout it all. With parties, cookies, and grandmothers insisting that we haven’t had enough of her heavy (yet soooo delicious) dinner to eat – even after two helpings of everything – it can be difficult to stay on top of a weight control strategy. Nutrition, fitness and sleep all just seem to fly out the window! Not this year!
If you’re already working on a goal of sustained weight loss, then give yourself a pat on the back because you may be doing something exceptionally good for your health. If you are overweight or have obesity, then you may know that you are at an increased risk of cardiometabolic disease such as type 2 diabetes.
Increasingly, doctors are letting go of recommending one specific eating strategy and are turning to recommendations of what you feel is an easy diet you can stick to. It’s all well and good to have a program that promotes the fastest weight loss or the best nutrition but unless you’ll keep it up over time, it won’t do much for you.
Is it possible to drink coffee on a fasting diet without messing with your results? Is it even safe to consume caffeine when you’ve been running on empty for a while – or intend to? These are some of the most common questions people ask as they consider an intermittent fast strategy.
Do you know the difference between losing weight and burning fat? Is the bathroom scale your only measure of your progress? We’ve been instructed to weigh ourselves for so long that many of us don’t realize that there is a lot more going on in our bodies than gaining and losing fat.
Can a pre-workout beverage really make that much of a difference to your performance and results? Does the specific choice of drink really change much? Is a cup of coffee, for example, better than a glass of water? What about all those products being sold at the gym?