The famous Legally Blonde, 33-year-old Reese Witherspoon seems to look better year after year. She manages to be one of the Hollywood's highest paid movie stars, a mother of two children and a philanthropist at the same time, always staying fit. What's her secret? Full story

A study recently published in the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery strongly advises postop patients to take probiotic supplements that will quicken weight loss to a considerable extent. Full story

Recent studies that have been published in Diabetes reveal the newly-discovered salubrious qualities of citrus fruits. They are rich with a flavonid called naringenin that exerts a powerful and manifold influence on the functions of the body. Full story

You did it! You managed to drop many pounds in a short period of time. Yet, you are not happy with your reflection in a mirror. All fast and large-scale weight loss programs have a common side-effect - the skin doesn’t "keep pace". The skin treacherously sags exactly where you lost your extra pounds. What can you do about that saggy skin? Full story

According to the producers at the New York based company called Miraclesuit, their swimsuits can make the figure look 10 pounds slimmer in 10 seconds. Full story

Scientists from various institutes worldwide have made so many discoveries! A great part of them refer to health. Below you will find 15 curious facts about health, nutrition, human body and exercise you might not know before. Full story

Many products and practises promise to purify and detoxify us to help us feel re-energised, revitalised and help us lose weight. Detox diets have become so popular that anyone from Hollywood stars to your next door neighbor are doing them. Programs include anything from a fruit and vegetable diet, elimination of alcohol, saturated fats, processed food and high sugar/salt to consuming nothing but a lemon drink. Sounds good in theory - but how beneficial is it for us? What’s wrong with an early night and a cup of tea? Full story

There is something really incredible about how celebrity moms are able to look as if nothing happened just in a few months after the childbirth. “Some people have all the luck!” - unlucky mothers groan looking through the tabloids. Don't be envious. All too often celebrities are pushed to shed their pregnancy weight as quick as possible. First, tough contracts bind most of them to show up at a film set just a few weeks after the childbirth. And second, they are being closely watched for extra pounds through the paparazzi's cameras around the clock. Any ride to the supermarket can end up with a tabloid cover trumpeting, "She looks like a fat pig!" Full story

Medics are currently testing a new method of excess weight loss, which lets the patient live their normal life without changing their nutritional habits or dieting. The reduction of the calorie intake is provided by electronic implant VBLOC made by EnteroMedics. The new invention is said to have little or no side effects. Full story

Mass media offers women who try to lose weight such a great variety of diets that each of us should be able to choose a frugal menu that would fit our taste: buckwheat diet, color diet, sweet diet… Dieticians are shocked by a number of offered ways to lose weight; they argumentatively criticize the diets which involve changing one’s diet by limiting oneself to some particular products. Full story

Those who believe that greenhouse cucumbers are of no value for the body are mistaken. Quite the contrary, greenhouse cucumbers contain a greater amount of valuable minerals than the regular-grown cucumbers. Therefore, cucumbers can not only assist you at removing excess liquid but can help you lose weight as well. Full story

Hey, don’t go to the kitchen! Stop! Don’t open the fridge, no-nooo! Please, stop it. No, please, not the cake and not the coke. At least not now – it’s 10 p.m. already. Hey, put it back right now! Close it! What about your figure? Don’t open your mouth! Don’t eat it! Don't! No! NOOOO! Full story

Many know badminton as a beach entertaining sport. But real badminton is a serious Olympic sport requiring much tension, agility, good reaction, staying power, perfect coordination. The flight of the shuttlecock (a missile of cork and goose feather that players volley across the net) has been recorded at speeds of 332 kilometers per hour. Badminton is the world’s fastest racket sport. The speed of therally during a professional game reaches 0,7 hits per second. Badminton is included to the astronaut training program. One can spend hours playing this game and not noticing the time – this is how one can fall in badminton. Full story

Everybody knows that jogging is healthy. It provides body weight loss and fat burning, makes your body stronger and enduring, your figure well-set-up and slim, increases muscle bulk and doesn’t let cholesterin deposit on vascular walls. But unfortunately it’s not always fun, because systematical repetition of the same sport activity can bore one. Boredom brings laziness and you train less. Here are some recommendations to make jogging more exciting. Full story