Often healthy eating requires a life change, but in time your new way of eating won’t feel so new—it will be a new normal.

When you find yourself seeking out food to comfort you, you are eating in response to your emotions, rather than to hunger.

Out of the millions Americans who are overweight and go on a diet each year, many regain all or a part of the weight they lose within five years.

If you feel “hungry” just a few hours after you’ve eaten a meal, it’s likely you’re responding to something you saw or smelled.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases offers suggestions to help your child develop and maintain good eating habits and to prevent chaotic mealtimes in your home.

Whatever treatment plan a person follows, losing weight slowly will be more effective and healthy over the long term.

The latest studies conclude that a successful weight-loss plan is a mind/body undertaking that not only involves monitoring calorie intake and expenditure, but dealing with the psychological side of weight loss and habit change.

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Sports Medicine now say that strength training is fine for kids, as long as they are supervised and don't try to lift too much weight.