Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. From the Mediterranean to the MIND diet, there always ...

In the last few years, there’s been a lot of interest in calorie-restricted diets for weight loss. These can vary significantly, from intermittent fasting (where you restrict eating to a certain ...

Medifast stock closed at USD 11.99 on September 15, 2026 on the NYSE, modestly below analyst price targets around USD 12.00. Recent quarterly revenue fell 27.6 percent year on year to USD 76.38 ...

A ketogenic diet outperformed Mediterranean and low-fat diets in several measures of metabolic health during a clinical trial involving people with obesity, prediabetes, and fatty liver disease. All ...

It’s possible to lose weight following any one of three diets, a new clinical trial has found—but one diet stands out for substantive health benefits that the other eating regimens just don’t seem to ...

Finding the right diet for your individual needs can feel overwhelming. A new study from WashU Medicine might give you a bit more clarity. On Thursday, the study was published in the peer-reviewed ...

If you want to lose weight, you’ve got options, from medications like GLP-1s to apps like Noom. But an ancient — thousands of years old — diet could trump them in one big way. With it, people eat ...

WHEN PEOPLE THINK of diet, a lineup of boring salads and small portions might come to mind. The volumetrics diet is different. This eating plan does the opposite: encouraging people to eat high ...

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In a reward-free touchscreen game, Japanese macaques favored a button that made a puppet pop up in somewhat unpredictable spots, like curious humans. Six zoo orangutans heard laughter before learning ...

Medifast, Inc. (NYSE: MED) has announced the launch of Trilivy, a metabolic health system that replaces its former Optavia brand. The Baltimore-based company said the transition marks a shift in focus ...

Scientists found that a modified Mediterranean-style diet with low protein and just enough methionine helped mice live healthier lives while reducing body fat and frailty. Human data also linked lower ...