One pound equals 3,500 calories. To lose weight at a healthy rate -- 1 to 2 lbs. per week -- you must burn a substantial number of calories through exercise, such as treadmill walking or running.

While you may hear advertisements constantly encouraging you to drink more water every day, there is a point where drinking more water becomes harmful. Your kidneys are responsible for filtering water, but they have a limit as to how much they can filter during a certain time period.

During the 1990s, fitness gurus Covert Bailey helped make the HealthRider exercise machine a popular home workout choice for consumers. The HealthRider declined in popularity after reports of repetitive stress injuries and low calorie-burn results began to appear in the media.

Of the hundreds of species of grains, wheat is the most common in the American diet. Wheat and its flour are used to make bread, buns, pasta, bagels, cookies, cakes, muffins, croissants, crackers, breakfast cereals and granola bars, just to name a few examples.

Sugar Busters is a low-sugar/moderate carb diet that claims weight loss is dependent on keeping glucose and insulin levels low. Insulin is released by your pancreas in response to a rise in glucose, most often from eating sugar and other simple carbohydrates.

A salt water flush is a type of colon-cleansing system used to remove toxins and waste from the intestinal tract. Colon cleansing is used to promote weight loss and reduce water retention to lose inches. However, there is no scientific evidence that backs these claims.

A scale tells you how much you gross weight you carry, but it can't tell you what type of tissue comprises that weight. Even if you have a healthy weight, your body fat levels might pose a health risk.

Midsection weight gain is no longer just a right of passage experienced by the average adult during middle-age.

Eating breakfast is important, even when you’re trying to lose weight. Whether you eat three meals daily or graze every few hours throughout the day, you’ll lose weight by reducing your daily calorie intake, according to a study published in the May 2012 issue of the journal “Obesity.

Hydroxycut has become the most popular nutritional supplement for weight loss on the market, according to the "World Journal of Gastroenterology." The makers of Hydroxycut claim that their product can promote the weight loss without diet and exercise, but little research has been done to support this.

The Bahamian diet is actually two diets -- a food-based, vegetarian diet and a supplement regimen, which can replace or supplement a low-calorie, vegetarian diet. The diet was developed by Dick Gregory, a social activist and comedian, who has been performing since the 1950s.

Fit in a workout without having to pay for a gym membership with fall yardwork. Mulching, planting bulbs to blossom in spring and trimming trees all raise your heart rate moderately as you squat, reach and pull. A treed yard tasks you with serious raking and bagging leaves, too.