Calories are the energy in food and beverages, allowing you to move, breathe, and survive. The number of calories a person needs per day varies depending on several factors, such as age, height, ...

Calorie deficit and intermittent fasting are weight loss strategies that involve consuming fewer calories in a 24-hour period, but they differ in their focus. Here's how.

Adults typically require between 1,600–3,000 calories per day. However, how many calories a person should eat in a day varies depending on a person’s sex, age, height, and lifestyle. The definition of ...

The human body undergoes an assortment of changes over the course of a lifetime. Some of those changes are visible to the naked eye, but many more are not. The body’s changing needs in regard to ...

Food and water are fuels in every facet of life. From providing energy to handle the daily grind to giving us nutrients we need to recover and grow stronger, what and how much we eat matters ...

Intermittent fasting has long been debated as a weight loss technique. Now a new study looks at how effective it is compared to daily calorie counting. In the study, published Monday in the Annals of ...

A controlled feeding study out of South Dakota State University shows that older adults who ate fewer ultra-processed foods naturally consumed fewer calories, lost weight and abdominal fat, and showed ...

A surge in the use of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy play a role in a projected calorie intake decline of 10 trillion in U.S. adults by 2030, according to a new report. The U.S. total calorie ...