Healthcare practitioners often prescribe exercise to help people lose weight and reduce their risk of weight-related diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and the cluster of risk factors known as metabolic syndrome (MetS). But keeping the weight off is a challenge for many. Now, a new study suggests that exercising during weight regain can maintain improvements in metabolic health and disease risk.

Having a game plan when you enter a supermarket may help you stick to your list and buy healthier foods. Avoiding the aisles and shopping mainly around the perimeter of the store may help individuals with weight loss as well, according to registered dietician Gaye Lynn Hicks of the Methodist Weight Management Center in Houston.

A new weight loss supplement tested at the University of Oklahoma has the potential to burn as many calories as a 20-minute walk, according to researchers.

Men who want to trim down their midsection may want to consider swapping their coffee habit for tea, according to the findings of a new study.

Losing weight isn’t just a matter of willpower or dedication, according to a new study. Researchers have found that the perceived complexity of a diet plan’s rules and requirements can mean success or failure when it comes to weight loss.

Some health experts say that fad diets and other extreme measures some individuals use to lose weight simply don’t work. Instead, they say that taking a holistic approach to weight loss can help many people shed those excess pounds they’ve resolved to lose in the new year.

Like many things, gaining – and losing – weight may be a matter of mind over matter, according to the findings of a recent study.

A new study has identified what really works when it comes to successful weight loss for young people.

A new study finds people with fewer televisions and more exercise equipment at home are more successful at losing weight and keeping it off.

It’s a modern-day approach to an old-fashioned problem: using a podcast to lose weight. And researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say these high-tech advice dispensers can be effective, if they contain the proper information and present it in the right way.