As menopause approaches, hormonal changes alter a woman's appearance. I talked with two gynecologists who explained increased belly fat and give advice on how to recover a trim waistline.

"Metabolism" is the name of the bodily system that converts food calories to energy needed to perform various tasks, like pumping oxygen to muscles du...

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.

In order to break out of our delusion, we must acknowledge the crucial fact regarding dieting and weight loss -- dieting does not work.

Ultimately, the yoga helped me to become "mindful" enough to accept that I wasn't really happy with my weight gain and that I could lose the weight if I really wanted to do so.

There is a simple explanation for the middle-age spread: our metabolisms slow by 5 percent each decade after the age of forty. Slowly, but surely, we ...