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For weight loss in 2025, you don’t need expensive programs or complicated plans. It is the fusion of timeless habits with contemporary knowledge. Here are ten simple, evidence-based tips to lower your ...

If your goal is improving health and longevity, experts say your focus should be on maintaining a regular fitness routine ...

Obesity is not a choice. Those with overweight or obesity face both stigma and increased risks for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, and some cancers. In 2017–2018, ...

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.

You’ve been on the healthy weight loss train for a while, successfully chugging along toward your end goal. But an initially predictable game of subtracting one to two pounds a week has now slowed to ...

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 ...