A new study from the Journal of the American Heart Association has found that intermittent fasting fails to help dieters drop weight, with calorie counting still the most effective way to shed any ...

Calorie counting may be an inaccurate, out-of-context way to manage weight, said an obesity expert. Instead of focusing on calories alone, include protein and fiber as factors in what to eat. You can ...

We all know calories count, but do you need to count 'em? MH's Fitness Director and nutritionist Andrew Tracey weighs in ...

Some experts argue that calories are misleading because they can be tricky to calculate. Calories can be unhelpful because they don't measure the nutritional quality of foods. However, advocates say ...

When it comes to burning fat and getting leaner, the two most debated strategies in health and weight loss are intermittent fasting and counting calories. Both methods promise effective results, but ...

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Over 86 million people in the U.S. use some kind of fitness or calorie-tracking app, making them one of the most common, easily accessible data-crunching tools around. Their appeal is ...

My name is Jessica Pilcher (fattofit_jpilch), and I am 31 years old. I live in North Texas, and I am an esthetics instructor and makeup artist. After gaining weight during my two pregnancies and ...

You can say one thing for Professor Mark Haub: He knows how to make a lesson stick. Haub, who teaches nutrition at Kansas State University, wanted to prove to his students that weight loss is simply ...

You. Yes, you, with your finger poised over the download button of some kind of diet or calorie-counting app. Stop it. I know January, a prime time for weight loss ...

Calories alone won't tell you if a food will make you gain weight because they don't account for nutritional value, Dr. Robert Lustig told Insider.