For decades, there has been an accepted definition of dieting in academia, and in society as a whole. Michael Lowe, PhD, a professor in Drexel University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has recently ...

It seems that everywhere you look, a new diet trend is promising to be the fastest and easiest way to lose weight. Avoid carbs after dark. Fats make you fat. Eat six small meals a day. Do fasted ...

For decades, there has been an accepted definition of dieting in academia, and in society as a whole. Researchers recently reevaluated the decades of dieting research to redefine the way researchers ...

The cultural pressure to stay thin affects many women of all ages; some start watching their weight in adolescence or even younger. But the earlier in life a woman starts dieting, the worse long-term ...

Raise your hand if you’ve ever dieted or tried losing weight. Okay, I know we can’t see each other, but I bet that most hands would have gone up if we were in a room full of people. According to the ...

Yo-yo dieting looks something like this: You lose 10 pounds after following a very strict diet like keto, only to gain it all back—and then some—a few months later. Sound familiar? Many people ...

When it comes to dieting, research shows the majority of people will regain some – if not most – of the weight they’ve lost. While there are many reasons why this weight regain may happen, some ...

Often called yo-yo dieting or weight cycling, the process of losing weight only to regain it—plus even more, sometimes—and then whittle back down isn’t just frustrating. It can also have some serious ...

Dieting with others used to mean enlisting a begrudging friend, or perhaps trekking to a weekly meeting at Atkins. But as social media emerged, Twitter and Instagram ushered in a new era of diet and ...

Researchers were able to show for the first time that a very low calorie diet significantly alters the composition of the microbiota present in the human gut. The researchers report that dieting ...

India treats food as emotion, identity and comfort. The first day of the year is not about punishing the body. It is about ...

I came of age in a house of fat-free cookies, Weight Watchers’ meetings and Denise Austin’s eight-minute abs. There was plenty of pasta and ice cream but also a focus on being skinny. In the decades ...