Being healthy isn’t only about a number on the scale nor is it about falling into a certain range on a “healthy weight” chart. What you are on the inside – fat or fit – is much more important than the outward view.

The thought of starting on a diet doesn’t light up most people’s imaginations, but it can be fun and motivational with a buddy, especially when you do a mother daughter duo weight loss. That’s exactly what this mother daughter duo did on the 100 day challenge and lost a phenomenal 74 pounds total. They didn’t stop there and changing their lifestyle made them celebrities. Today they motivate others to lose weight.

Eating a high protein diet is essentially a slow starvation that may initially result in weight loss initially, but will result in physiological stress and weight gain over time.

Excess body weight increases the risk of the main health problems such as diabetes, cancer, and depression. The good news is that losing some of the extra weight can reduce the risk of acquiring those diseases.

Environmental pollution has been shown in studies to be a major factor in causing obesity and type 2 diabetes by causing liver diseases.

Fatty liver disease or NAFLD is a diet-related disease that causes you to gain weight although you're eating normally. Fatty liver can also lead to high cholesterol, hypertension, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes and ultimately heart disease (in that order), but is easily reversible naturally.

Type 1 diabetes has been shown to be prevented by eating a so-called 'medicinal high fiber diet' of fruits, vegetables and legumes, according to recent research. If you fear you are a candidate for type 1 diabetes this study can help guide you to make the correct food choices to prevent the disease.

Dining-in is the one way to resurrect both your health and your spending, since dining out is less healthy overall than cooking at home, according to the latest research.

Broccoli is more than just a high-fiber, low calorie food. It also contains a powerful phytochemical that can help defeat obesity.

Feeding processed food diets to your pets is largely the cause of fatty liver and ultimately feline diabetes mellitus and canine diabetes mellitus, as well as a telling indication of our own food values. Our pets teach us that eating a processed food diet will lead to a diabetes mellitus in both human and animal.

There seems to be a way out of the unhealthy junk-food eating cycle by using preventive cues.

Researchers say that there is an association between the physical activity of parents and the activity of preschool kids.

Did you set New Year’s Resolutions for yourself this year? Here is how to make them stick.

We often start out with good intentions when it comes to a regular exercise routine, but it can be hard to stick to the plan over the long-haul. Researchers might have found a reason why.

Researchers have found when non-nutritive sweeteners are consumed over time there is a sustained decrease in overall energy intake and it lowers body weight.