Weight loss

Want to lose weight? This supplement won't do the job for you

L-carnitine is marketed as a natural fat burner, but evidence for weight loss is limited. Its breakdown in the gut may also produce a substance linked to increased heart risk.

Weight loss
Physical Fitness.

Living better for longer: Israeli fitness experts on how to stay strong and healthy as you age

New study reveals: How do you maintain weight loss even after stopping a diet?

New study reveals: How do you maintain weight loss even after stopping a diet?

White wine

The alcoholic beverages that will do the least damage to your diet


Dr to Maariv: Each hostage receives personalized dietitian, choosing food important psychologically

Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus's Prof. Noa Elikim Raz and Dr. Sigal Frishman discuss the care and rehabilitation process for the 20 hostages recently freed from Hamas captivity.

Dr Sigal Frishman, head of nutrition at Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus, October 2025.

Eating healthy and exercising – and still gaining weight? This is the reason

Weight gain after workouts and healthy eating doesn’t necessarily mean failure. It often comes from building muscle mass or temporary changes like fluid retention.

Weight gain after workouts and healthy nutrition does not necessarily indicate failure

Parents, you must not pass this scar on to your children

We tell ourselves that we are just concerned about their health, that we want life to be easy for them, but in reality—we project our own childhood wounds onto our children. Let’s break this cycle.

The topic of weight strongly triggers parents.

Scientists discover potential way to combat deadly weight loss in cancer patients

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science discovered a way to use pre-existing treatments to fight often terminal side effects of serious illnesses.

PhD student, Nir Livnat, works at the laboratory on models of an early-stage human embryo, created by Israeli scientists without using an egg, sperm or womb, offering a glimpse into the first weeks of embryonic development, in a laboratory at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel

Wegovy injections reduce risk of heart attacks and strokes by 57%, study finds

The study found that the risk of heart attack, stroke, or death in patients who received the drug dropped by 57% compared to those treated with the equivalent drug, Monjaro.

 Boxes with the popular weight loss injection drug, Wegovy.

The Japanese trick that reduces weight and blood pressure

Japanese studies show that walking in 3-minute intervals brings more impressive results than regular walking or the common goal of 10,000 daily steps.

The Japanese walking trick

Weight loss hypnosis: does it work?

Weight Loss

The rebound effect: After stopping anti-obesity medications, patients regain weight rapidly

Weight regain begins eight weeks after discontinuation and continues for up to 20 weeks, study finds.

The rebound effect: After stopping anti-obesity medications, patients regain weight rapidly.

Using weight-loss injections? Five things you must know from the new guidelines

Weight-loss injections using GLP-1 receptor agonists mimic a natural hormone in the body that suppresses appetite, slows digestion, and promotes a lasting feeling of fullness.

  5 months into the war: half of the Israelis gained up to 5 kg in weight

Intermittent fasting offers more than just weight loss

Alternate day fasting shows slightly greater weight loss but higher dropout rates, longer trials needed for definitive conclusions.

 Intermittent fasting offers more than just weight loss.