To all the spinners and runners and stair climbers out there—there’s a new message. Spending more time at the gym may not help as much as this.

A free website allows you to load a picture of your current self and they will show what you would look like at your goal weight.

Eat six of the special cookies throughout the day when your hungry, and in the evening you have a sensible dinner. Lynda Sells says the cookie diet worked for her.

What looks like something out of a science fiction movie is delivering out of this world results to patients trying to eliminate stubborn belly, thigh and back fat.
The new procedure is called Zerona non-invasive body slimming.

Children and adolescents who are obese tend to remain overweight as adults, carrying with them a high risk of adult obesity-related complications. The extra weight increases the risk for health problems normally seen in adults, like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes. Overweight children are also at higher risk for asthma, sleep apnea and orthopedic/joint problems.

A Colorado baby has been denied health insurance because he’s too big. 3-month-old Alex Lange’s height and weight put him in the 99th percentile for size according to CDC guidelines.

Doctors and experts insist that exercise is one of the keys to losing weight and that Americans should be skinnier. But most people overestimate the number of calories they burn during a work out ... and then they tend to overeat afterwards. Also a lot of people believe that exercising gives them the freedom to eat what they want.

Nearly14 percent of children in the U.S. have high blood pressure.
For children, there is no single measurement for high blood pressure because blood pressure rises as a child grows.
Researchers have found 75 percent of children with high blood pressure are not diagnosed with the condition.

Walking is a wonder exercise: it can help control weight, reduce the risk of diabetes, certain cancers, and heart disease, and relieve stress. Best of all, walking is free. Here’s how to make every step count, no matter how often you hit the pavement.

Parents are often shown their child’s growth chart—a graph that plots where a child falls in relation to peers in terms of height and weight—but it turns out, few of them know how to interpret the information.

If you’re looking to lose weight, here’s a simple tip: don’t dine with the skinny dude who stuffs his face. According to a study that will appear in the April 2010 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, both the size and the consumption habits of our eating companions can influence our food intake.

A Connecticut woman is hoping to use her lifelong struggle with anorexia to make a difference for others.

You’re under 50. You’re pretty fit. You can’t have a heart attack, right? Truth is, starting at the age of 35, heart disease is the leading killer of women—but only 20 percent of women believe they’re at risk for heart disease.

It’s the new buzz word in the grocery aisles: “Gluten free.“ Celebrities are touting gluten free foods for everything from weight loss to curing attention deficit disorder.

You know that fat in your body you wish you didn’t have? It turns out those cells could be used to create stem cells that one day may be able to cure disease.