If your waistband is feeling tighter than usual or your jeans just won’t zip up anymore, the change in your weight likely didn’t happen overnight. Americans put on weight at the rate of roughly 1 to 2 pounds a year, according to a review published in 2013 in AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Reviews.

When summer comes, sunbathers flock to beaches, parks and poolsides to bask in the sun's ray. Sunbathing has a long history of being associated with health; ancient Greek athletes sunbathed because they believed it would make them stronger. But does sunbathing actually help burn calories?

With the flu, you'll experience a range of uncomfortable symptoms that get in the way of your daily life. Many cases of the flu are viral, which means that medication is unlikely to alleviate your symptoms.

You've got just three months to slim down to look your best for that wedding, vacation or reunion. Losing 40 pounds in three months is your goal, and you're dedicated to achieving it. A low-calorie, highly nutritious eating plan combined with increased physical activity brings about weight loss.

Hollywood trainer Dan Isaacson developed the Total Gym nutrition plan, which is a feature of the Total Gym XLS training package. The nutrition plan works in tandem with Isaacson’s “Body Makeover for Total Gym” DVD, which provides the workout component to go with your diet.

You can thank Mom or Grandma for the size of your breasts. Their shape and makeup is largely genetic. You can't just target the breasts for reduction. Your body loses weight proportionally, not in isolated units.

There's no way to know exactly how much weight you'll lose by partially or completely cutting carbs from your diet. Cutting carbs is one strategy that may help you eat less -- and the extent to which this occurs determines how much weight you'll lose.

You've been working out and eating right, but the scale won't budge. For weeks, or even months, the same number flashes on the screen and you're getting discouraged. You are in the middle of a plateau -- a frustrating, but normal period when weight loss slows down or stops all together.

It's clear that vitamin E won't help you lose weight. Other vitamin E benefits are questionable, such as prevention of cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease.

Polycystic ovary syndrome--PCOS--is a condition caused by an over-secretion of the luteinizing hormone, which throws off the balance of estrogen and progesterone. This causes irregular menstrual cycles, a lack of ovulation, increased acne, male-pattern hair growth and male-pattern hair loss.

Episodes of depression, and associated weight changes, vary greatly from person to person; some people may gain weight while depressed while others may lose weight.

As the culinary website IndiaCurry.com explains, jowar roti is a flatbread made of sorghum flour. This bread is popular in North India and is rich in carbohydrates and high in calories.