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Blood Tests Show a ‘Nordic Diet’ Improves Key Health Markers – Even Without Weight Loss

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A new study adds support to the idea that eating better foods is beneficial even without obtaining weight loss – with the Nordic diet reducing blood sugar and cholesterol even when no weight was lost.   “It’s surprising because most people believe that positive effects on blood sugar and cholesterol are solely due to weight loss,” … Read more

Is a Low-Carb Diet So Much Better For Weight Loss? A New Review Brings The Evidence

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In the 1970s, low-carb diets were all the rage. The Dr Atkin’s Diet Revolution book claimed carbohydrate restriction was a “high calorie way to stay thin forever“. Carbohydrates are found in breads, cereals and other grains, fruit, vegetables and milk. They’re also in ultra-processed fast foods, cakes, chips and soft drinks.   These days, low-carb … Read more

Getting More Sleep Can Help Your Body Absorb Fewer Calories, Experiment Shows

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New research has identified a possible way of shedding calories without closely monitoring diets or doing more exercise – simply by spending a little more time in bed, in fact.   In an experiment with 80 overweight adults who usually slept fewer than 6.5 hours a night, adding an average of 1.2 hours of extra … Read more

Weight loss: Getting enough sleep may lower the amount of calories you eat

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When people who weren’t getting enough sleep took measures to sleep for longer, they ate fewer calories per day and lost weight without changes to their diet or exercise Health 8 February 2022 By Clare Wilson An extra hour of sleep helped some people lose weight Getty Images/Westend61/Kiko Jimenez Sleeping for about an hour longer … Read more

Gut Microbes Can Cause Obesity, And We’re Getting Closer to Understanding How

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Medical researchers have discovered a molecule linking the tiny creatures that call our guts home to levels of fat in our bodies. “We now have a molecular mechanism that provides a starting point to understand our microbiome as a link between our diet and our body composition,” explained Emory University biochemist Dean Jones.   Hints … Read more

The Weight Game: How Body-Size Bias Can Hold Back Health Science

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In December 1994 then former U.S. surgeon general C. Everett Koop launched a national weight-loss campaign at a White House press conference, stating that obesity had become the country’s second-largest cause of death, “resulting in about 300,000 lives lost each year.” This marked the beginning of a long, influential life for the statistic. Pundits and … Read more

Why Aren’t All Calories Created Equal? A Dietitian Explains

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A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, at least from a thermodynamic standpoint. It’s defined as the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius (2.2 pounds by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).   But when it comes to health and your body’s energy balance, not all … Read more

Here’s What You Really Should Know About ‘Negative-Calorie’ Foods, According to Experts

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The internet is full of quick-fix weight-loss hacks. One popular suggestion is to eat ‘negative-calorie’ foods such as celery, because you burn more energy eating and digesting the celery than you absorb.   Is it true that eating some foods makes us lose calories rather than gain them? And does eating these foods help weight loss? We … Read more