Intermittent fasting could be a good way to lose weight without calorie-counting, a new study found. Participants lost the same amount of weight over six months and kept it off for a further six.

The traditional approach to weight loss is to count calories and try to reduce the number consumed each day. This is a time-consuming and error-prone process — often with disappointing results.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The small study, which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, followed 77 people with obesity ...

Calorie counting isn’t just difficult, it’s riddled with problems that make it practically useless for anyone trying to lose ...

Research found that people lost the same amount of weight on an intermittent fasting diet as they did on a calorie-counting diet. People in both groups were able to keep the weight off after a year.

Intuitive eating and calorie counting are both methods used to lose weight. The better choice for sustained weight loss depends on each person, their reasons for not already being at their desired ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Diets go in and out of style all the time, but one weight-loss method that continues to be many people's ...

Share on Pinterest Experts say the quality of the calories you consume is the most important part of a diet. Oscar Wong/Getty Images Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland report that ...

It had to happen. Once digital electronic calorie tracking became available on the smartphone, uncounted numbers of diet-obsessed women began fixating over how many calories they were putting into ...

A new study from the Journal of the American Heart Association has found that intermittent fasting fails to help dieters drop weight, with calorie counting still the most effective way to shed any ...