Metabolism/Weight Loss
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Intuitive Eating for Weight Loss
As an alternative to doomed diet regimens, some weight-loss experts recommend tuning in to our own instincts and trying intuitive eating. But are our bodies’ cravings always a good guide?
Jason Schanta’s Success Story
Connecting with his bigger why helped one man kick his emotional-eating habit and learn to love working out.
6 Tips for Keeping a Mindful Food Journal
If you track what’s on your plate as well as what’s happening in your mind and body, you can learn what doesn’t work for you — and build on what does.
How to Detox Your Body Safely and Effectively
The craze for fasting and cleansing has produced some fantastic claims, and some decidedly mixed results. Here’s how to separate the hype from the reality — and safely enjoy the benefits of a cleaner, happier body.
The Care and Feeding of Your Mitochondria
They’re essential to energy, focus, vitality, and metabolism. And yet most of us have no idea how our mitochondria work. Here’s how to tune up your body’s quadrillions of “energy factories” and avoid mitochondrial dysfunction.
How Your Hormones Affect Weight Loss
In his book, The Setpoint Diet, New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Bailor talks about how to balance your hormones and lose weight naturally.
Having Trouble Losing Weight? It Might Be Your Thyroid
Many thyroid conditions go undiagnosed, but a properly functioning thyroid is key to maintaining a healthy weight.
How Insomnia Leads to Weight Gain
Chronic stress that keeps you up at night can increase the production of fat cells.
Derek Ballard Jr.’s Success Story
By switching to a plant-based diet and redoubling his training efforts, this young basketball player finally lost the weight that had been holding him back.
9 Missing Links to Weight Loss
These often-overlooked factors can help you achieve — and sustain — a healthy weight.
How to Eat Mindfully
Here are five tips to slow down and eat more mindfully.
The Pros and Cons of 6 Trendy Diets
Here’s a look at some popular diets and how they might — or might not — fit your unique nutritional needs.
Can Intermittent Fasting and Protein Cycling Slow Down the Aging Process?
The author of a new book, Glow15, describes how an innovative dietary combination can help you lose weight and keep your cells youthful.
The Seven-Systems Detox
A functional-medicine nutritionist shares how her Seven Systems approach effectively detoxes the mind as well as the body.
On Hunger: A Memoir on Trauma, Shame, and Body Image
Roxane Gay’s bold account of her weight issues offers insight into the connections between trauma, shame, and body image.
LIFE, UNEDITED: Why Is Weight Watchers Targeting Teens?
The weight-loss company is offering free memberships to teens this summer. Here’s the problem with that.
Power Parfait
This recipe, from Robyn Youkilis’s new book, is a gut-friendly way to start your day.
The 13 Pillars of the Pegan Diet
In his new book, functional-medicine doc Mark Hyman, MD, says a Pegan diet — which combines principles of Paleo and vegan diets — is the best way to eat. Here are the 13 pillars of the Pegan diet.
The Trouble With Artificial Sweeteners
Low-calorie food replacements have promised to make our weight-loss dreams come true, but research indicates that these pseudo-foods rarely deliver. In fact, they may set our weight-loss efforts back.
Gene Armstrong’s Success Story
How one man is creating a family tradition of healthy living by making manageable changes to his own diet and lifestyle.
5 Tips for Losing Weight — Without Calorie-Counting
Set aside the calorie obsession and fat-gram fixation. To lose weight and maintain a healthy body, try these strategies instead.