Maintaining and managing weight can be tough. Over 42 percent of adults and 18.5 percent of children and adolescents in the United States have obesity. Overweight and obesity may be associated with ...

It's not unusual for a person to start a new diet and watch the pounds come off easily before hitting a point where the scale won't drop any lower. People often attribute this occurrence to slip ups ...

Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, author of "Locksley Hall" Source: Painting by Helen Mary Elizabeth Allingham, English artist, Public Domain, Wikimedia Common.org In his less well-known poem of an ...

Many people who are dieting and exercising to intentionally lose weight will come up against the dreaded plateau. The decrease in the number on the scale they had seen for some time stops, and they ...

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Sometimes it seems as if our bodies simply get comfortable, deciding to settle in at one spot on the scale no matter what we do. If you feel that your physical self just wants to stay at one ...

Dr Nick Fuller works for the University of Sydney and has received external funding for projects relating to the treatment of overweight and obesity. He is the author and founder of the Interval ...