calorie intake news

The UK health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said that if everyone who is overweight reduced their food intake by 216 calories a day (equivalent to ... More

The Food, Diet and Obesity Committee has published a report calling for the British government to fix the broken food system and turn the tide ... More

People who get regular, uninterrupted sleep do a better job sticking to their exercise and diet plans while trying to lose weight, according to new ... More

People eating ultra-processed foods ate more calories and gained more weight than when they ate a minimally processed diet, according to results from a National ... More

More than 80 leisure facilities across the UK will overhaul their food and beverage offering from the New Year following growing demand for healthier options. ... More

The British public has been under-reporting its daily calorie consumption, potentially misleading policymakers to focus on wrong strategies – such as increasing physical activity levels ... More

Americans and Europeans still struggle to grasp basic personal health and fitness concepts – despite increased efforts to provide public health education through government-led campaigns. ... More

Exercising is more effective than dieting in limiting daily calorie consumption, scientists at Loughborough University have found. The new research, due to be published this ... More

A commonly used skin care ingredient is one of several newly identified compounds that can mimic the life-extending effect of a starvation diet, new University ... More

Weight loss apps are no more effective in helping overweight people shed pounds than a paper flier from the doctor’s office, according to a new ... More

A recent study has shown obese people on a six-day diet of reduced fat intake lost an average of 463g of body fat – 80 ... More

MyFitnessPal, the health and fitness tracking app which boasts 85 million users, has today (5 May) launched a new upgrade aimed at helping fitness enthusiasts ... More

After only five days of eating a high fat diet, the way in which the body’s muscle processes nutrients changes, according to a study by ... More

A low-fat diet leads to a greater loss of body fat compared to a low-carb diet, according to scientists of the US National Institutes of ... More

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued new guidelines on sugar consumption that say adults and children from most countries in the world should roughly ... More

Encouraging people to improve their diet and exercise more may not be enough to overcome the obesity epidemic, according to several new research papers. Writing ... More

Almost two-thirds of people do not know how many calories the average person needs to maintain a healthy weight, according to new research. Diabetes UK, ... More

Health and fitness software provider Virtuagym has launched a new app enabling personal trainers (PTs) to set interactive nutrition plans for clients, which automatically update ... More

Doctors suggest a Mediterranean diet may be a better way to tackle obesity than calorie counting. In an article for the Postgraduate Medical Journal (PMJ), ... More

The brain could potentially be retrained to prefer healthy foods, helping people with weight loss and healthy eating plans, according to a small-scale pilot study ... More

Losing weight and reducing BMI levels could lead to increased brain power, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and ... More

An influential new report from a British think tank has given further support to the notion that inactivity, not obesity, is at the root of ... More

Scientists may be on the verge of a major breakthrough in the battle against obesity, after trials found a short-term crash diet can reverse the ... More

Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, has teamed up with a local school in move designed to boost the health and fitness of its ... More