Weight Loss Facts

Smelling bananas and green apples may help reduce appetite and food cravings, according to research on how scents affect hunger signals.

Dieters who sleep more take off more fat that those who sleep less.

Angus Barbieri walked into a Dundee hospital at 27 weighing 456 pounds and asked doctors to help him stop eating until he was thin. They expected a few days. He lasted 382 days on nothing but tea, coffee, water, and vitamins, living entirely off body fat. He dropped to 180 pounds and kept the weight off for the rest of his life. The longest medically supervised fast in history.

Dolly Dimples, a circus sideshow performer who weighed over 500 lbs, lost more than 400 lbs by eating nothing but baby food, becoming a weight-loss celebrity in the 1950s.