Weight management often depends on calculating metabolic rates, understanding fat biochemistry, and tailoring exercise programming for either muscle acquisition or structured fat reduction.
Over-the-counter diet pills are available online, at drug stores and at health food stores, but only a select few have been demonstrated by third-party research to help you lose weight and burn belly fat.
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Most child characteristics—including weight and height—vary across a wide range. View any group of children of the same age and gender, and you will see some children who are shorter than others, some who tower over their peers, some who seem scrawny and some who appear to be carrying extra pounds.
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People who are overweight are more likely to become depressed, according to research reported in Archives of General Psychiatry. Likewise, depressed people are at greater risk to gain weight. Many who are depressed become inactive and immobile.
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Fish oil -- a potent source of omega-3 fatty acids -- has achieved wide acclaim as having near panacea-like healing properties, reputed to prevent or improve many conditions, including heart disease, heart attacks, high blood pressure, menstrual pain, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, osteoporosis, atherosclero
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In a weight-loss contest, the morbidly obese have an advantage over those who are less portly because they can shed fat more quickly. This is why contests, such as “The Biggest Loser,” use weight-loss percentage to track progress rather than simply counting the lost pounds.
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You know reading is good for your mind, but you may wonder if there is any benefit for your body. You do burn some calories while reading, so maybe your practice of reading about diets helps you even before you implement the diet.
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Countless hours on the treadmill and weight machine and a seeming eternity spent resisting those chips in the pantry, yet your waistline is getting bigger, not smaller. This is a simple matter of biophysics and psychology. Amend your weight-loss tactics to drop those pounds and trim your profile.
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Obsessive-compulsive disease, often referred to as OCD, is a type of anxiety disorder. People with OCD have recurring, unwanted obsessive thoughts; uncontrollable compulsive behaviors or, 90 percent of the time, have both obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior.
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Food lovers have obvious problems with diets. Perhaps the most common belief food lovers have about diets is that you must curtail intake of your beloved, precious food.
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For weight loss, health and fitness experts extol the benefits of long-duration, low- or moderate-intensity cardio exercise. Thirty to 90 minutes a day of moderate-intensity cardio exercise, such as running, swimming or biking, can enhance fitness, health and weight loss.
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Kissing is good for your relationship, but you may wonder if it does your body any good. Stop wondering. Giving your lips a good workout apparently is okay for the rest of you as well: Kissing burns calories.
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Food, glorious food. If only there was some way to eat all you wanted without having to worry about that pesky, life-threatening, profile-altering fat.
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Children come in all shapes and sizes. Some are short, some are tall, some are stout and some are thin. Both genetic and environmental factors influence height and weight. The average height and weight of children varies by gender, age, race, ethnicity and nationality.
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When your thyroid hormone level gets low, your pituitary gland releases thyroid-stimulating hormone, or TSH, which stimulates the thyroid to release more thyroid hormone.
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Let’s cut to the chase. You can’t determine exactly where fat gets deposited in your body. Once you digest your food and the glucose hits your bloodstream, your pancreas releases hormones that transform the glucose into carbs and fat, which then get distributed throughout your body.
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Helping a 12-year-old lose weight can take encouragement and perseverance on your part. You'll need to guide your child so that she consumes fewer calories than she burns. To do this, provide lean, healthy meals and snacks that befit her calorie expenditure.
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The next time someone tells you to “shake a leg,” take their advice. Shaking your leg and fidgeting in your seat or with your hands can burn calories.
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Sweat happens. Throughout every day of your life, you exude a watery blend of urea, salts, sugars and ammonia from your pores. Most people presume that when you sweat, you lose weight. It’s true that when you sweat, you shed some weight.
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You can’t lose weight from particular parts of your body through exercise or diet. When you exercise, your muscles draw energy from fat stores throughout your body. When you do thigh exercises, you burn fat from your thighs, but you also burn fat from your stomach, butt, arms and everyplace else you store fat.
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Backs are beautiful, but most would agree that back fat detracts from their natural allure. You grow back fat when your calorie intake exceeds your calorie expenditure.
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