How Reflexology Can Aid Your Weight Loss Goals

Reflexology can aid your weight loss goals, says Ralph Flores.

So here’s the truth: Most people think that achieving their ideal weight is nothing more than a pipe dream – especially with the challenges they will face to lose just a single pound. Read more

9 Reasons Fats Help You Lose More Weight

If you have been trying to lose weight with the debunked low-fat diet approach, quit wasting your time and effort. Here are nine reasons fats help you lose weight.

Eating an Early Dinner Aids Weight Loss

Dr. Joseph Mercola says eating an early dinner aids weight loss and lowers cancer risk.

For years, a standard dietary recommendation said to stabilize your blood sugar and insulin levels (thereby optimizing energy and maintaining a healthy weight) has been to eat three square meals a day with small snacks in between. On top of that, health experts (influenced by the food industry) maintained that processed foods fortified with RDA nutrients are just as good as, and maybe even better than, cooking from scratch. Read more

Low-Carb Diets DO Work, Says Doctor

Dr. Michael Mosley says low-carb diets do work and explains why.

I have recently returned from a trip to Taiwan where everyone seemed obsessed by the Keto Diet. For those not familiar, this diet, favoured by celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Megan Fox, is a high-fat, very low-carb regime. Read more

Managing Diebetes: Lose Weight and Control Blood Sugar

If you have diabetes and are considered overweight, you can improve the management of your diabetes and your overall health by losing weight. It may seem like a daunting task if you have tried to lose weight in the past and have failed, but there are steps you can take and support you can use to help you reach your weight loss goals.

Bedtime Drink to Remove Belly Fat in One Week

This homemade bedtime drink will reduce belly fat in a single week.

Motivation for Diabetics to Lose Weight

If you have diabetes , you have probably heard from your doctor how beneficial it is for you to lose weight, but that doesn’t make it any easier to do. Nevertheless, your doctor is right: you will gain many benefits from losing weight including managing blood glucose levels. No matter how beneficial losing weight is, however, it is still difficult for most diabetics to do.

Tequila for Weight Loss?

Could a key ingredient in tequila help weight loss and fight diabetes?

A key ingredient in tequila could aid weight loss and control blood sugars for diabetics, research suggests.

A study has found a link between weight loss and an ingredient in the agave plant which is used to make the Mexican drink.

The plant's naturally occurring sugars, called agavins, can also help lower blood sugar too, say researchers. Read more

6 Reasons We're Fatter Than We Were 30 Yaars Ago

Why are we fatter now than we were thirty years ago? Hint: It's not food or exercise.

“If you are 40 years old now, you’d have to eat even less and exercise more than if you were a 40 year old in 1971, to prevent gaining weight.” York University Press Release (source)

A study conducted by researchers at York University in Toronto, Ontario, who “set out to identify whether the relationship between number of calories consumed, amount of physical exercise, and intake of macronutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrates) with obesity has changed over time,” has been published. Read more

8 Bedtime Drinks That Flush Toxins and Burn Fat While You Sleep

These eight bedtime drinks will help you detoxify and burn fat while you sleep, says Twain Yobra.

The body rebuilds and regenerates tissues while we sleep. And this helps the liver get rid of toxins. What you put in your body before sleeping will greatly affect the detoxification process.

Quality sleep and enough bodily fluid play a vital role in detoxification.

Once you remove toxins, metabolism skyrockets and the body starts burning fat faster. Here are 8 bedtime drink that will remove toxins and burn more fat. Read more

Lose Weight with Coconut Oil

Among the many benefits of coconut oil is that it helps with weight loss, says Jennifer Lea Reynolds

It’s estimated that over one-third of United States adults are obese, an often preventable issue that’s linked to some serious health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer and stroke. Many of these adults — maybe even you — are attempting to lose their excess weight; even those who fall into the “overweight” category or have a mere 5 pounds to lose are no stranger to trying to shed pounds.

Enter coconut oil. Sure, it’s been the center of debate; some argue that it increases the “bad” (LDL) cholesterol levels, while others maintain that it doesn’t cause these levels to spike at all. From much of the information that exists, more seems to favor the latter point. In fact, coconut oil is comprised of approximately 50% lauric acid, something that helps prevent heart problems, high cholesterol and hypertension — all things that can be experienced especially when you’re carrying excess weight.

Furthermore, the oil has been found to help people lose weight. Read more

Dieting for One Year Keeps Weight off for Good

Many people have the experience of losing weight, but gaining it back again. A new study suggests that the way to avoid that is to continue your diet for one year.

Perseverance pays off when it comes to diets, a study has found.

The breakthrough research suggests people may just have to stick their diet out for a year to keep weight off permanently, The Times reported.

It suggests that keeping to new habits in the long term change the body’s chemical make-up, allowing the new weight to be maintained. Read more

How to Use Coconut Oil for Weight Loss

The best way to lose fat is to eat, and one of the best fats to eat is coconut oil. Find out how to use coconut oil in your weight loss diet.

One of the biggest questions I get about coconut oil is, “how do I eat it and what does it do?” And “why didn’t it do that for me?” You want to lose weight, cut fat, have energy and stomp all over the world daily. You want to break down cubicles and smash stop signs at will. You’ve heard Coconut Oil can help you do this, but you’ve tried it, and it didn’t seem to work. Or your friend tried it and said it didn’t work. Or you just have no clue what’s happening with it and suspect it’s just another fad. Read more

5 Surprising Hacks That Help You Lose Weight

If losing weight is one of your New Year's resolutions, these five surprising tricks may help.

Installing a mirror in your kitchen or dining room could help you lose weight, according to a study published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research.

Food psychologists claim that literally watching what you eat is but one of many small changes that can prevent you from piling on the pounds. And, as we fight to lose the extra weight we gained over the Christmas period, surely every little helps.

So what other home hacks could help us get trim for 2016? Read more

Eat Yourself Thin

Dr. Joseph Mercola reveals how to get your body to burn fat for fuel instead of storing it.

So you’re carrying some extra weight around, what’s the easiest and healthiest way to get rid of it? Many believe the answer lies in burning off more calories than you’re taking in, and while this theory sounds reasonable, the reality is more complex.

Many also believe that cutting fat from their diet is an essential step, but this too is a myth¹ that may actually prevent you from achieving the weight loss you seek.

It’s important to realize that you cannot exercise your way out of a poor diet. Research² shows exercise is largely ineffective for producing any significant amount of weight loss on its own. Read more

Trying to Lose Weight Like You Did in Your 20s?

Still trying to lose weight like you did in your twenties? Dr. Caroline Apovian reveals 23 top tips to outsmart your fat hormones - and shed 1st in three weeks

Are you finding it harder to lose weight as you age?

If you’re still using the same diet techniques you did in your 20s you need to stop.

In your 20s and early 30s weight loss can, for some, be the same foolproof routine.

By exercising more and eating less, shifting those few pounds can always be done with a little determination.

But what happens when your go-to diet regime stops working? Read more.

Humans Are Born Lazy

If you're not always so eager to go to the gym or for a run, it's not totally your fault. Humans are born lazy, according to science. (That doesn't mean you shouldn't still go to the gym or for that run, though.)

It is the perfect excuse to forget that trip to the gym and put your feet up.

Scientists say we are wired to save energy – adapting our movements to make them as streamlined as possible.

In other words, we are born lazy. Read more

Vitamin D: Can It Help You Lose Weight?

Could taking vitamin D help you lose weight? A study found that low levels of the vitamin is linked to obesity.

Obese and overweight people who are deficient in vitamin D should take supplements to boost their chances of losing weight, experts have said.

The advice comes as a new study warns people who have low levels of the ‘sunshine’ vitamin, are more likely to be obese or overweight. Read more

How to Lose Weight with Yoga

Following this 10-step guide to modern yoga can be a fantastic way to achieve and maintain the body you want.

Most people imagine that yoga is something gentle and mindful, not a form of exercise that will help shed excess pounds. But it’s also a fantastic way to get, and keep, the body you want.

There’s not just the anecdotal evidence of many yoga devotees who say it helps them stay trim and toned. Scientific research is increasingly backing up the link between yoga and weight loss.

Researchers in one U.S. study, for example, followed more than 15,000 healthy men and women aged between 53 and 57. Those who started out overweight but did at least one session of yoga a week lost about 5lb over ten years, while those who didn’t gained almost a stone. Read more

Only 12 Minutes Exercise Needed to Lose Weight Faster

Twelves minutes of exercise daily is all you need to maximize your weight loss.

When Dr Michael Mosley launched the Fast Diet two years ago, he was confident that it was a great way to lose weight and improve health.

But even he could not have been prepared for how the diet would take off, with hundreds of thousands of people around the globe successfully losing weight and transforming their vitality and wellbeing.

While the basics haven’t changed — the aim is still to cut calories by three-quarters on two days of the week and eat normally the rest of the time — this week he and his co-author, Mimi Spencer, launch an exciting new Fast Diet book. Read more