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Counting Calories for Weight Loss: Should You Do It? This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Who knew weight loss involved so much math? Counting calories can be a useful ...

In recent years, the fact that a negative energy balance – eating fewer calories than you expend – is necessary for fat loss has become household knowledge. But at the same the idea of counting and ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

It’s early in the morning, and Lulu Hunt Peters, MD, sits at her desk, puzzling over the manuscript she’s writing about a miraculous weight-loss method she learned about back in her medical school ...

I’ll be honest – I used to eat a sad desk salad at 2 PM, then raid the pantry at 9 PM wondering why I felt terrible. Sound familiar? After about my tenth failed attempt at “eating clean,” I finally ...

Many of your patients are arduously shifting their diet habits, boosting exercise, and making lifestyle tweaks to shed pounds. Even with these actions in place, they may not be losing weight. During ...

It's the one question no one asks - but everyone should - on Thanksgiving Day. How many calories are in a Thanksgiving meal? While we're often lenient with how much we consume on Thanksgiving - after ...

Heidi Klum blasted “crap” reports that she only eats 900 calories a day to maintain her 138-pound frame. “I just got home, and some friends are sending me these articles that have been written that I ...