
Supplements: What's Worth Your Money and What Isn't
Three supplements have solid evidence behind them. Most of the rest are selling you an expensive version of something food already provides. Here is the honest breakdown.
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15 articles on fat loss — page 1 of 2.

Three supplements have solid evidence behind them. Most of the rest are selling you an expensive version of something food already provides. Here is the honest breakdown.

"I want to lose weight" is not a goal — it has no number, no deadline, and no way to tell whether you are on track. Here is how to set one properly, and why the number you pick matters less than the date.

Week three is when motivation has gone, results are not yet visible, and the plan starts feeling like a punishment. Here is why that specific week breaks people, and how to build one that survives it.

Water does not burn fat, and drinking four litres will not speed anything up. What it does do is worth knowing — particularly the effect it has on the number you see on the scale.

Losing a kilo a week is possible. What the promise leaves out is how much of it is muscle, what it does to your training, and why the weight usually comes back. Here is the honest arithmetic.

An hour in the gym burns less than most people think. The walking you do the rest of the day often burns more — and it is the first thing to disappear when a diet starts.

The front of the packet is marketing. The back is data. Here is how to read the panel in ten seconds, and the four tricks that make unhealthy products look healthy.

Not everyone needs coaching, and it is worth saying so. Here are the five questions that separate a knowledge problem from an execution problem — and what each one actually costs to fix.

The advice is technically correct and practically useless. Here is why, borrowed from how software gets built: the problem is never the goal, it is that nobody designed the system that delivers it.