WEIGHT LOSS

Happy New Year 2012! This year, your resolution might be to stick to your diet and finally lose weight. Here are the 12 best apps to help you shed those pounds before bikini season.

Snooki took time this holiday season to flaunt her new 98-pound figure with a series of glamor shots for her Twitter fans.

The Biggest Loser winner John Rhode says the challenge will come in keeping the weight off in the future. A special education teacher and football coach, Rhode claimed the competition on national television's Tuesday night airing, and he stopped by the set of NBC's Today show the next morning to talk about the future.

In a new study, professionals from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have urged women to be cautious of what they eat and also combat their stress levels as a proactive means to prevent them piling on the pounds during the festive season. The research, published online in the October issue of the Journal of Obesity, explained that managing stress and mindful eating can actually help in weight loss even in the absence of hardcore diet regimes.

Gaining weight is not simply a matter of counting calories, according to new research from Tel Aviv University Professor Amit Gefen.

The numbers for Malta are 21.1 percent for women are obese (second highest in Europe) and 24.7 percent for men (the highest for the continent).

When obese people lose weight with behavioral therapy, their family members may get a bit trimmer as well, a new study suggests.

Weight Watchers International, Inc. saw its third-quarter revenue jump 29.6 percent from the prior-year period and net income nearly double, as its online business surged.

Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index finds there are more normal weight Americans than overweight.

Speculation that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will enter the U.S. presidential race has led to a feverish debate about the possibility of having the fattest man in the White House since the corpulent William Howard Taft squeezed behind the big desk in the Oval Office.

The 60-year-old actress lost 100 pounds and is now a size 6.

A study by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta predicts that enrolling 70 percent of older adults who are at risk for diabetes or cardiovascular disease in community-based intervention programs would reduce Medicare expenditures by up to $15 billion.

By covering community-based weight loss programs for people who are at risk of developing diabetes and heart disease, Medicare could save up to $15 billion in the next decade.

More people chose to stick to the Weight Watchers diet, and lost more weight and fat mass, than those assigned to standard primary care, new research found.

In the first randomized controlled study of Weight Watchers participants, family doctors compared the commercial weight-loss program with standard care, and found that Weight Watchers was more than twice as effective.

Patients who are referred by their doctors to Weight Watchers were found to lose about twice as much weight as those on a standard weight-loss program over a 12-month period as reported in a study in The Lancet.

Weight Watchers is more effective to lose weight than seeking doctor’s advice, according to a new study.

A new study shows that social engaging environments full of friendships and stress can ward off obesity by transforming energy-storing fat into energy-burning fat.

A study conducted by Duke University shows that for those looking to lose belly fat, aerobic exercise is more effective than weight training.

A new report says if current trends continue half of all adults in the United States will be obese by 2030. The report calls for government action to stem the trend.

Half of all men and women in the United States could be obese in 20 years, could lead to 65 million more Americans being classified as obese.