Fitness

Fitness

Related to the practice of regular exercise to maintain good physical condition and health.

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weight-cycle

Fitness; Weight loss

Losing and gaining weight over and over again. Commonly called “yo-yo” dieting.

World Health Organization

Fitness; Weight loss

An agency of the United Nations established in 1948 to further international cooperation in improving health conditions. Although the World Health Organization inherited specific ...

weight control

Fitness; Weight loss

For the purposes of this weight loss glossary, achieving and maintaining a healthy weight by eating well and getting regular physical activity.

weight cycling

Fitness; Weight loss

The repeated loss and regain of body weight. When weight cycling is the result of dieting, it is often called "yo-yo" dieting.

weight loss

Fitness; Weight loss

Weight loss is a decrease in body weight resulting from either voluntary (diet, exercise) or involuntary (illness) circumstances. Most instances of weight loss arise due to the ...

vitamins

Fitness; Weight loss

The word "vitamin" was coined in 1911 by the Warsaw-born biochemist Casmir Funk (1884-1967). At the Lister Institute in London, Funk isolated a substance that prevented nerve ...

water retention

Fitness; Weight loss

A nonspecific term meaning the accumulation of excess fluids in body tissues, medically known as edema. Edema can result from many different disease processes, including but not ...