When you start exercising, the hormone that controls appetite—ghrelin—goes down, which means you don’t feel very hungry. At ...

“If you’ve ever stepped on the scale and wondered, ‘Why am I gaining weight so fast?”, know that you’re not alone,” assures Sean Bourke, MD, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of JumpstartMD.

Many people think gaining weight quickly means piling on junk food or eating as much cake as possible. But that myth overlooks something important: gaining weight healthily requires choosing the right ...

Weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have had a meteoric rise in recent years, but how fast does the weight return after ...

For some people, gaining weight is important for health. You may want or need to gain weight if you’ve always been underweight, are losing weight unintentionally, or have an eating disorder. You may ...

Doctors around the world have been hailing "miracle" medications that make weight loss far easier, but new research suggests that after a person stops taking certain drugs, the weight tends to ...

Estrogen levels dip during perimenopause and menopause, causing unwanted changes like weight gain around the belly. Hormonal shifts, muscle loss, stress, decreased physical activity and poor sleep all ...