weight loss

An offer of savings on health insurance failed to motivate people to lose a modest amount of weight at a Philadelphia hospital system.

The weight-loss company Nutrisystem is buying the South Beach Diet brand for $15 million.Arthur Agatston, the Florida cardiologist who created the South…

A Pinellas County woman known for inventing a weight loss wrap is fighting a $1,050 fine for contempt in a Tampa federal courtroom related to a 2012 case…

Many people struggle with their weight, and former athletes are no exception.But athletes who gain weight once they retire are at a higher risk for…

Three years ago, the Obama administration offered hope to millions of overweight seniors when it announced Medicare would offer free weight-loss…

An effort to rein in a weight-loss fad that the FDA calls risky ran into a wall Thursday night at a Florida Board of Medicine hearing in Deerfield…

Fad diets seem that much more absurd when you can visualize exactly what they require you to eat. A photo series helps reinforce what medical researchers are saying: that the best diet is the one you actually stick with.

It’s much too soon to get excited -- it’s still in the mouse stage of research -- but a substance being tested by Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter…

A South Florida company has recalled two of its weight-loss supplements, the Associated Press reports.Florida Dolphin Intertrade Corp. announced that the…

Studies that set out to answer the pressing question of whether walking or running offers more health benefits found that both do, but the benefits are…