Even though the keto diet sounds a bit trendy, there are some real people out there (in addition to celebs like Mick Jagger) who are proving that this diet does work. Reddit user Acid__Burn shared her story, and her incredible before-and-after photos had us convinced right off the bat. The 35-year-old first started on a…

The ketogenic diet has become one of the biggest weight-loss trends over the past few years, though its focus on low-carb meals might remind you of Atkins, another popular diet everyone was talking about recently, too. In fact, you may wonder if there’s even that much of a difference between the two plans, so we…

European research breakthrough: Combining the slimming effects of keto with the healthy decadence of the Mediterranean diet will have fat falling off your frame — even as you enjoy the deliciousness of the season! Here come the holidays, with all that scrumptious food and drink — and this year you can sail right through without…

The smell of cloves and citrus always reminds me of the holidays. Can’t you just imagine the blend of sweet orange and warm spice in the air when you think about it? Besides smelling absolutely heavenly, cloves are also a powerful superfood with a multitude of healing properties. Cloves are actually the flower buds of…

If all the foods that help you burn fat were the players on a football team, tart cherry juice would be a linebacker. It’s not scoring the touchdowns, but it encourages the other members to play more effectively while stopping the other team from scoring. Now, though this sippable slimming aid doesn’t actually blast fat…

The ketogenic diet has emerged as the weight-loss plan for women who want to shed fat fast, and for good reason: This very low-carb, high-fat way of eating is proven to help followers slim down quickly, and it delivers an array of impressive health benefits — from decreasing levels of heart-harming triglycerides by 300 percent,…

Stephanie Lang never knew what her heaviest weight was, because she stopped weighing herself for a very long time. But she does remember the biggest number she saw when she finally stepped on the scale: 230 pounds. It was 2011, and Lang was in her early 40s. Working as a physical therapist, the Minnesota woman…

Want to feel totally transformed in just three days? “All you have to do is speed-clean your liver,” insists Columbia University–trained women’s health guru Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D. “Your liver has over 500 different jobs, many crucial to making a woman look and feel her best.” When you’re fatigued or gaining weight, it often means…

“Finally, a bench. I need another break,” Krista Simpkins told her husband before veering her swollen ankles off the walking path. She’d been trying to keep up with her grandchildren at the local zoo — their favorite destination — but the unwanted pounds she was carrying around had zapped the scant energy she had. Watching…

Now that summer — and all those BBQs and trips to the ice cream shop — is coming to an end, many of us are trying to get our health back on track. You may think you need to take things out of your diet to drop a few pounds, but adding these healthy (and…