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Health conditions such as anorexia can lead to extreme weight loss and starvation. Learn how losing too much weight can affect the body and what treatment can look like.

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A study finds that long-term keto dieting may come with hidden metabolic costs. A recent study from the University of Utah Health, published in Science Advances, explores how the ketogenic diet affect ...

For decades, we’ve been told that weight loss is a matter of willpower: eat less, move more. But modern science has proven this isn’t actually the case. More on that in a moment. But first, let’s go ...