Learn how to avoid the diet "danger zones": a time during the first few weeks when you're most likely to slip up or fall off the diet completely. In t...

There is a certain amount of weight that you can lose and keep off. How do we find and reach that magical number? George Blackburn, professor at Harva...

Not until the last 10 years did health care professionals understood insulin resistance and its impact on the body. It affects metabolism and appetite, and if untreated can turn into diabetes.

In Journalism 101, we learned the importance of the Five Ws (and one H) in gathering information. What would happen if you applied them to your weight loss goals?

A few years ago (more than I'd care to admit) I went to a parenting conference that challenged the attending moms and dads to ask ourselves, "How you...

Okay, let's face it. We are a fat nation. Well, at least two-thirds of us are. Seat sizes have increased in cars, stadiums - even toilets. Many of u...

I think that even the most body-positive women would have to agree that a little bit of exercise is good for mind, body, and soul, while half a jar of Nutella as an afternoon "snack" is not.

Mark Twain was a keen observer of human nature. As we begin 2010, I'm reminded of Twain's quote: "To promise not to do a thing is the surest way to make a body want to go and do that very thing."

If you really want to make a change on this planet, a plant-based diet is the easiest, fastest way to get there.

As we move from summer to fall, into the new school season and new year, I am wondering if you would like to join with me as I recommit to my health, ...

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

The solution seems obvious: be less physically active and you'll eat less. You don't even need a Harvard degree to figure it out.

As I write this, tomorrow is Tuesday, which is a cardio day. I'll spend five minutes warming up on the VersaClimber, a towering machine that requires ...

What's completely ignored in the diet debate but essential to long-term success, is the need to realign the body's biochemistry in order to reach a healthy weight.

I wondered when the best time for a diet would be. Surely there must be a lull, some sort of break from food-focused festivities in a twelve month span.

Without starving yourself, without diet pills or gimmicks, even without exercise, it is possible to have thinner, smoother thighs in three weeks.

Despite the fact that men and women seem to struggle with weight in fairly equal numbers as adults, women do tend to put weight on in their butts, vs. their stomachs.

An Experiential Calorie is a unit of awareness, a unit of conscious presence, a unit of meaning. The job of an Experiential Calorie is to enrich your Mind. Take a moment to count the latter.

CARL FOSTER, an exercise physiologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, was amused by ads for a popular piece of exercise equipment. Before-a...

Most stomach-stapling patients lose 3/4 of their extra weight within 12 months. However, complications will strike a quarter of people who have the surgery and one in every 200 will die from it.