The popular diet isn’t quite the weight loss “miracle” people claimed it was.
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Recent study found it’s no more a “miracle” solution for weight loss than regular diets are.
Salads are a lot less healthy once you make additions like croutons and a creamy dressing.
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Many foods that seem healthy contain various hidden fats, sugars and salts. If you’re trying to lose weight, it pays to know where they’re hiding.
You might lose weight in the short term but fad diets are impossible to sustain.
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Diets that promise drastic results with minimal effort, or that ban whole food groups, should ring alarm bells.
Exercise is a key component of weight loss, many studies suggest.
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Just what role does exercise play in weight loss? Plenty. While word has spread in recent years that physical activity isn’t all that important, a doctor debunks that myth.
Vinegar has become as popular for some as nectar of the gods. It has a long history of high hopes for healing.
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Does it seem like everyone you know drinks apple cider vinegar, mainly in hopes of losing weight? Vinegar has a long history of high hopes attached to it. A doctor who loves vinegar explains.
Stop blaming your parents for your weight.
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Spoiler alert: kilojoules affect weight gain more than your genes or gut bugs.
People with anorexia nervosa often see themselves as overweight when in fact they are not. This image depicts a young, thin woman who sees herself as larger than she is.
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Anorexia nervosa can be a deadly disease. A recent analysis of several studies showed that it may be even harder to treat than previously believed. But the news isn’t all bad.
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How people lose weight when they’re doing it on their own.
Clayton Oliver has opened up about the pressure he felt to lose weight in order to play in the AFL.
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Until the league stops pressuring players over their weight, token measures to address mental health concerns will have a limited impact.
Your body has just performed an amazing feat. Be kind to it.
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Many mothers experience body dissatisfaction after birth. Dieting is not the answer.
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Eating celery, grapefruit and cucumber to lose weight is not a bad idea, just don’t think that you’re consuming negative calories.
Can a ketogenic diet really help you lose weight? Here’s what the research says.
Increasing the amount of exercise is one way to use the energy stored in fat cells, or to ‘burn’ fat.
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Trainers and fitness gurus often tell their charges how to ‘burn fat.’ But what does that actually involve? Here’s a Speed Read on something that actually takes a fairly long time.
Men respond better to structured “weigh-ins” than women.
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For some people, self-weighing could be the key to losing or keeping weight off; while for others, it may do harm.
Studies have found consumption of chillies is inversely related to the risk of being overweight or obese.
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New research has discovered brain receptors that sense heat also play a hand in appetite.
The daily fluctuations in the stock market can have a serious emotional impact on people watching their stock portfolios, when the less stressful strategy would be to pay attention to long-term trends.
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Today it’s estimated that we take in about five times as much information as we did 25 years ago, and that we process as much data in a day as our 15th century ancestors would have in their lifetime.
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Kim Kardashian West comes under fire for promoting an appetite-suppressing lollipop on social media.
Some people reward themselves for exercise with food, stymying weight-loss efforts.
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People are often disappointed when exercise doesn’t translate into weight loss. Here are four reasons it might not be happening for you (yet).
The best time is the time you’ll actually do it.
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Our body burns more fat when we exercise before breakfast, but studies haven’t found that means we lose more weight over time.
The drive to overeat may be rooted in survival brain circuits.
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New weight loss approaches seek to switch off the brain patterns that drive overeating and weight regain. Here’s how that works, and how it could help you.