Your body maintains a biological “set point” for weight, beyond calories, through powerful hormonal and neural feedback loops ...

The Health at Every Size movement is centered around body respect: establishing sustainable, health-supporting habits without trying to change your body’s size or shape. Intuitive eating is built ...

Maintaining and managing weight can be tough. Over 42 percent of adults and 18.5 percent of children and adolescents in the United States have obesity. Overweight and obesity may be associated with ...

Research shows the battle to keep weight off isn’t about willpower—it’s biology. Here’s how scientists say we can work with ...

Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, author of "Locksley Hall" Source: Painting by Helen Mary Elizabeth Allingham, English artist, Public Domain, Wikimedia Common.org In his less well-known poem of an ...

Understanding our body’s natural “healthy” weight range is much like understanding our foot size: Each of us has a unique, natural size based on our individual biology. This idea is especially ...

Working out, eating healthy and still not moving the needle on weight loss? A fitness specialist says there may be a covert reason why. Experts agree that weight loss happens when the body is in a ...

How Does Weight Loss Work? Food, exercise, sleep, hydration. So much goes into weight loss. But how does weight loss work, exactly? In the simplest sense, weight loss happens when you consume fewer ...

You’ve hit a weight loss plateau when you stop losing weight even though you’re consistently following a diet and exercise program. It’s a very common experience. Studies estimate that plateaus affect ...

It's that hold-your-breath moment, often at the start of the day: The numbers on the scale can have so much influence on your ...