Losing weight seems to require an advanced degree in chemistry, titrating fat grams and balancing the pH of your digestive tract by eating starches with vegetables. (Or is it starches with fruits?) Bu…

A local groups says they rely on prayer to help them lose weight.

Certain foods can be a dieter’s downfall. By cutting out just one vice, you can reshape your body.

A woman who took USA TODAY’s challenge to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks realized her portions were “double what they should have been.”

A low-carbohydrate diet appears to be associated with substantial weight loss similar to that produced by a combination of the weight-loss drug orlistat and a low-fat diet, but may be more effective in reducing blood pressure. William S. Yancy Jr., M.D., M.H.S., and colleagues at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., examined body …

Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire says he has to lose some weight to make the 115 pound super flyweight limit in time for his WBA Inte …

If you’re already working to lose weight or contemplating how you ought to be, doing so could help put food on the tables of those in need in Mercer County.

(PhysOrg.com) — A new study has found the secret to effortless weight loss: spend some time at high altitude. Even a week on a mountain retreat can produce weight loss in sedentary people eating as much as they want and doing no exercise at all.

Title: Fat-Burning Chemical Points to New Weight-Loss Drug Category: Health News Created: 2/2/2010 2:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 2/3/2010

TUESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) — American scientists say they may have found a new way to trick the body into burning more fat.

Peptides that target blood vessels in fat and cause them to go into programmed cell death (termed apoptosis) could become a model for future weight-loss therapies, say University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers. A research team led by Randy Seeley, PhD, of UC’s Metabolic Diseases Institute, has found that obese animal models treated with proapoptotic peptide experienced decreased food intake and …

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they might have discovered a new way to trick the body into consuming more fat to avoid obesity.

Results of lab tests with mice suggest promising new direction for research, scientists say.

Researchers may have a new way to trick the body into consuming more energy. The target in this case is an enzyme that indirectly controls the activity of what the researchers refer to as the “energy master switch.” It boils down to this: When you give mice a chemical that blocks the function of the enzyme known as Fyn kinase, they almost immediately begin burning more fat.

Washington, Feb 2 (IANS) Peptides that target blood vessels in fat and cause them to go into programmed cell death could become a model for future weight-loss therapies.

As a Christmas gift to each other, Michele and Russ Survance decided to get weight loss surgery.