You may have a pretty good idea of how much you should be eating per day. Or you might not have a clue and simply tuck into ...

A different way of tracking what you eat could be 10-15% more accurate than current calorie counts for weight loss, obesity expert Giles Yeo said.

If you're trying to lose weight, calories count more than the types of food in your diet, a U.S. Department of Agriculture-Tufts University study shows. The study shows that after a year, overweight ...

Once the foundation of popular diet programs and nutrition guidelines, calorie counting has fallen out of favor with food experts. From a basic accounting standpoint, “calorie counting simply can’t be ...

The calories from proteins and sugars differ widely in how they are processed by the body. Shivohaam Bhatt explains how this ...

In the past, we’ve been sold the idea that weight loss is as simple as a math equation: If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you'll lose weight. This concept is the foundation of the CICO diet, ...

Do calories count? To what degree? It’s useful to know that a cup of broccoli has fewer calories than a cup of rice, and that we use up more calories walking than sitting, but when we meticulously ...

“Cheese is fairly calorie-dense because of its fat content, so a little goes a long way,” says Jessica Cording, RD, the ...

Counting calories is now the law of the land. This month, a long-delayed regulation came into effect requiring all food chains with 20 or more locations to list calorie information on their menus.

It’s early in the morning, and Lulu Hunt Peters, MD, sits at her desk, puzzling over the manuscript she’s writing about a miraculous weight-loss method she learned about back in her medical school ...

There are three good reasons to write about calories right now. First, the FDA just took action to regulate calorie labeling in chain restaurants. Second, colleagues just published yet another ...

"Eating better" is a perennial new year's resolution, and this year, your chain restaurants are here to help. KFC has a 395-calorie grilled chicken meal, served with green beans, mashed potatoes and ...