In a new study, mice strongly preferred foods like bread, rice, and wheat, abandoning their regular diet and gaining body fat ...

Many people find that maintaining a healthy weight becomes harder with age, even when diet and activity levels remain unchanged. This is not just about willpower but about how the body changes over ...

Bread and other carbohydrate staples may be doing more than just filling plates—they could be quietly reshaping metabolism. In a surprising twist, researchers found that mice strongly preferred carbs ...

Keeping weight off during middle age is not easy. As the years pass, many people—especially men—find themselves gaining stubborn belly fat. Now, researchers have uncovered key reasons why this happens ...

(Photographer Basak Gurbuz Derman/Moment/Getty Images) New research in mice shows how eating bread can cause body weight and ...

Indulging in extra desserts can come loaded with a lot of guilt, especially for those trying to lose weight. Khushi explains ...

Losing weight can be tricky. Gaining muscle isn’t exactly a walk in the park, either. So, losing weight and gaining muscle at the same time? Impossible, right? Not necessarily. Losing weight can be ...

Fat substitutes used in low-calorie foods can contribute to weight gain and obesity, according to a report by the American Psychological Association. A study by researchers at Purdue University using ...

"Cortisol belly" is a popular term used to describe weight gain mostly around your belly area, or abdomen. Sometimes it's called "hormonal belly." It’s not a medical term or diagnosis, but it could be ...

Talk about a heavy dose. While the bulk of news coverage is focused on GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic that cause weight loss, licensed pharmacist Dr. Kati Forbes has spotlighted six medications “that’ll low ...