weight loss

If you feel like you need to lose a few pounds, you are certainly not alone.

European budget airline Ryanair has vowed to avoid the fuel surcharges many of its competitors are now passing on to passengers, so it’s instituted a variety of measures to reduce the gas required for each trip. Among them? Asking flight attendants to lose weight.

While there isn’t a magical elixir for weight loss, new evidence suggests that downing supplements made of green coffee bean extract may help in the battle of the bulge.

Generally, when something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But what we are about to tell you — that chocolate may actually help keep you slim — seems to have a lot of science behind it.

Have you ever binged on garlic? Probably not, and experts say there’s a good reason for that: scientists have found we tend to eat less of smellier foods.

Having trouble losing weight? Well, it turns out that blaming your genes might actually be a legitimate excuse. Scientists discovered that a gene mutation can make people think they’re hungry even when they’re physically full.

People tend to think of anorexia and bulimia as female-only disorders, but a growing body of evidence suggests the psychological illnesses are now affecting boys and young men in alarming numbers as well.

Weight gain may not always be due to what you eat. Researchers in Texas find your medication can cause serious weight gain.

Fructose has long been considered one of the causes of the obesity crisis across the world. But a new study from researchers in Canada finds that might not be true.

Is weight loss contagious? According to a new study published in the journal Obesity, it is. Researchers at the Miriam Hospital Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center and the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University found people who are in a team-based weight loss competition influence each others weight loss to a large degree.