Karen Asp

We asked our experts to offer their perspective on the top five diets in America and for whom they’re best suited. While prescribing a diet is outside your scope of practice, it is important to be knowledgeable about these diets so you can pass along essential information to your clients.

Americans have been so focused on the fat in their diets they haven’t noticed the huge quantities of sugar they now consume. Unfortunately, all that sugar may be just as harmful and disease-inducing as saturated fats. Learn why added sugars may literally be killing people and how you can help your clients unsweeten their diets.

Weight-loss betting sites are the latest weapon in the fight against obesity, but do they really help people shed pounds? Here’s the scoop behind these sites—and how you and your clients can get involved.

Could Mom be wrong in saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, especially when it comes to your waistline? Here’s what you need to know about the morning meal and its effect on both weight and overall health.

We asked our experts to offer their perspective on the top five diets in America and for whom they’re best suited. While prescribing a diet is outside your scope of practice, it is important to be knowledgeable about these diets so you can pass along essential information to your clients.

Americans have been so focused on the fat in their diets they haven’t noticed the huge quantities of sugar they now consume. Unfortunately, all that sugar may be just as harmful and disease-inducing as saturated fats. Learn why added sugars may literally be killing people and how you can help your clients unsweeten their diets.

It sounds like an outrageous infomercial claim, but is it really possible to get fit in just minutes per day? A slate of new studies might have uncovered a way to finally squash the I-don’t-have-time-to-exercise excuse, and it may even help shake things up for diehard fitness enthusiasts.

As a fitness professional, you are in the behavioral change business. But getting clients to stay committed to healthy living when they’re on their own can be a challenge. If you can teach them what it takes to build new habits, however, you could give your clients the tools they need to commit 24-7. Here’s some great advice from top fitness trainers and experts in the field on how to do exactly that.

Could Mom be wrong in saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, especially when it comes to your waistline? Here’s what you need to know about the morning meal.

This New Year’s, instead of resolving (and often failing) to lose weight, what if your clients made it their goal to not gain more weight instead? Could this new message—to avoid gaining weight rather than try to lose it—offer a new way to fight the obesity crisis? An eye-opening study says yes. In fact, by trying to avoid gaining weight instead of trying to lose it, your clients may actually be more successful in reducing their body weight in the long run.

It seems like everybody and their Aunt Sally are juicing these days, perhaps following in the footsteps of Hollywood celebrities who have touted juice fasts—not just juicing—as a surefire way to detox and slim down. But can juicing really deliver the full nutritional punch of fruits and vegetables? Read what our experts have to say.

Going back to the basics and incorporating body weight-only exercises is one of the hottest trends in fitness right now, with programs like Crossfit and boot-camp classes leading the way. Here are seven key strategies for introducing bodyweight exercises into your clients’ programs that will ensure both their success and safety.

It sounds like an outrageous infomercial claim, but is it really possible to get fit in just minutes per day? A slate of new studies might have uncovered a way to finally squash the I-don’t-have-time-to-exercise excuse, and it may even help shake things up for diehard fitness enthusiasts.