U.S. adults faced a greater likelihood for COPD if their daily sugar caloric intake from sugar-sweetened beverages was 10% or ...

Can you build muscle while you are eating fewer calories to lose fat and excess weight? Learn what may help meet your goals.

Understanding the underlying causes of obesity and how to prevent it is the best way to fight the obesity epidemic, according to Esra Tasali, MD, Director of the UChicago Sleep Center at the ...

Laboratory studies have shown consistently that animals eating less food, or eating less often, can live longer. But scientists have struggled to understand why these kinds of restrictive diets work ...

Although Paul McGlothin and Meredith Averill are in their early 60s, the married couple from New York State says that they feel at least 20 years younger. This is no idle claim: Their blood pressures, ...

In a recent letter published in Nature Aging, researchers assessed the impact of caloric restriction (CR) on biological aging among the comprehensive assessment of the long-term effects of reducing ...

What Is a Calorie Deficit? Calories are a measure of the amount of energy in food. All of the cells in your body require energy in order to work properly, just like a car needs fuel. They get that ...

The dietary pattern adjusted to a specific time window has become popular in recent years as an alternative to the usual calorie-controlled diets. When it comes to losing weight, intermittent fasting ...

Calories weren’t always about food. The term started out as a measurement of energy in the 1800s, and it was several decades before it was used in conjunction with human nutrition, according to the ...