8 Terms
Contributors in Weight loss
Weight loss
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 tasks relating to ...
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 loss of body fat, but ...
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 inflammation (neuritis) ...
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 limited to diseases ...
