Yo-yo dieting may increase risk of heart disease death

New research suggests that repeatedly losing weight and regaining it can be dangerous for your heart, even if you are not overweight.

Diet success: Does brain structure play a role?

If you are having a hard time losing weight and keeping it off, researchers say integrity of connections between certain brain areas may be the culprit.

Low-fat diets are not the best way to achieve weight loss

A new meta-analysis of 53 studies on dieting produces a surprising result: low-fat diets are not the most effective way of losing weight and keeping it off.

Obese children’s health rapidly improves with sugar reduction unrelated to calories

Reducing consumption of added sugar, even without reducing calories or losing weight, has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, including high cholesterol and blood pressure…

Daily weigh-in helps keep the weight off

New research finds that stepping on the scales every day and tracking the results on a chart is an effective way of losing weight and keeping it off.

It’s not just the number of calories consumed that raises diabetes risk

If you think losing weight is enough to prevent Type 2 diabetes, don’t get your hopes up.

If adhered to, branded diets are ‘similarly effective’

How does the Atkins diet compare to Weight Watchers at losing weight? A new meta-analysis suggests there is not much between them, as long as diets are followed for 12 months.

Effective Weight Loss – Keep A Food Journal, Don’t Skip Meals, Don’t Eat Out

If you want to really succeed in losing weight you should never skip meals, you should avoid eating out, and ideally, you should keep a food journal, especially if you are an overweight or obese postmenopausal woman, researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center reported in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics…

A Roundup Of 2011 Global Dairy Research Highlights The Benefits Of Dairy Products

As the New Year approaches, resolutions of losing weight and getting healthier are stacking up all over the world. However, with so many different fad diets, experts, websites and TV shows all touting different (and sometimes miraculous!) methods of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, accomplishing your resolution can get quite confusing…