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A new study finally sets the record straight about eating three vs. six meals a day.

Which will help me slim down-6 mini meals or 3 squares? I get this question a lot, especially from people who are trying to slim down, because I’m a registered dietitian and nutrition editor of EatingWell Magazine. It’s a common question, especially among dieters looking to get an extra edge on their weight loss.

Read more: Which Will Help Me Slim Down—6 Mini Meals or 3 Squares?

Nutrition researchers have found that these popular snack foods are the top waistline assassins.

For people trying to lose weight, here’s the good news: Nutrition researchers have scoped out the enemy. Turns out potato chips and soda are the top waistline assassins.

Everyone knows to cut back on junk food, but in a recent large study examining what foods were most associated with weight gain, potato chips and sweetened drinks stood out as the ultimate arch villains. Indeed, not all snacks are created equal. Here’s why:

Scientists have started to suspect that when it comes to junk food, some snacks are worse than others. In a recent Harvard study, researchers tracked 100,000 Americans who were not overweight to begin with every 4 years to see who gained the most weight and what foods they ate. They found that an expanding waistline was most strongly linked to potato chips and sugar-sweetened drinks.

Read more: Two Worst Foods for Your Weight

It’s been featured on Dr. Oz’s TV show, but does the latest fruit fad to promote weight-loss really work?

Goodbye, grapefruit diet. Hello, African mango?

Everyone’s looking for the magical weight-loss solution. Some claim they’ve found it in the African mango, the latest fruit fad to invade the weight-loss world. Its supplements have even been endorsed on The Dr. Oz show.

Dr. Tanya Edwards wrote on DoctorOz.com:

“Sounds like a magic bullet to me! I tried it myself, and lo and behold, in the first month of taking it (only once per day, mind you, instead of the recommended twice daily), I lost seven pounds without making any changes in my usual healthy diet and exercise routine!”

Read more: Is African mango a weight-loss wonder fruit?

Eating extra servings of one of these favourites causes the most weight gain over years: study.

Specific foods are associated with long-term weight gain — or weight loss — a major study says.

We’ve heard it before. If you want to lose weight, it comes down to a fairly basic rule: eat less and exercise more. But are there specific foods you should limit or restrict altogether? And how much do exercise and other lifestyle factors really matter when it comes to preventing long-term weight gain?

A recent Harvard study looked at the effect of diet, physical activity and other behaviors on weight gain or loss over a period of several decades. For the study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers followed 120,000 men and women who were considered healthy and non-obese.

Not surprisingly, more people put on weight than lost it over the duration of the study. The average participant gained 3.35 pounds over every four-year period, or more than 16 pounds over two decades.

Read more: Best — and worst — foods for your waistline

Growing portion sizes are not the main reason Americans are packing on the pounds, a new study reveals.

Over the past several decades Americans have steadily gotten fatter. Although our increasingly sedentary lifestyles are partly to blame, a big reason for our national weight gain is that we’re simply eating more.

In the mid-2000s, government surveys show, the average American adult ate about 2,375 calories per day, nearly one-third more than he (or she) did in the late 1970s. What accounts for all those added calories?

According to a new study, the biggest single contributor to the sharp rise in calorie intake has been the number of snacks and meals people eat per day. Over the past 30-odd years, the study found, Americans have gone from consuming 3.8 snacks and meals per day to 4.9, on average—a 29 percent increase.

Read more: Snacking, not portion size, largely driving U.S. overeating

Stock up on these everyday foods to suppress appetite and trim belly fat.

Hold this thought: To lose weight effectively and permanently, you need to eat.And eat smart. Happily, nature designed a lot of delicious edibles to turn up your fat-burning furnace, flatten your belly, and take a big bite out of your appetite. Here are 11 of the get-slim food gems we’re talking about.

Read more: 11 Foods for Faster, Easier Weight Loss

Eggs and soups have a bad reputation, but cutting them out could do you more harm.

Think weight loss is all about sacrifice? Don’t cut these healthy foods from your diet — they can help you lose weight.

When we think weight loss, we think sacrifice. Time to cut portion sizes and cut out our favourite foods.

However, sometimes we can do more harm than good when it comes to the ruthless cuts. It’s easy to lose sight of healthy foods than can support weight loss, or, worse yet, cut out supposedly “bad” foods that can actually be beneficial.

Here’s a quick look at how certain foods can help you shed some pounds, and some top choices to try.

Why are some foods better than others? Research has uncovered many trends we can use. Here’s what to look for:

- Low calorie density. Your body doesn’t count calories — instead, it responds to the volume of food in your stomach. Fool your brain into satiety by choosing foods that have a lot of bulk but few calories — like fruits, vegetables and popcorn.

Read more: Foods that help you lose weight

Trainer explains how the UFC star drops 23 pounds — then gains them back overnight.

Have you ever looked at Georges St-Pierre on TV, then caught a glimpse of your beer gut in the mirror and thought: There’s no way that guy can only be 170 pounds. I mean, look at him.

No? Just me?

Well, if you think that number’s a little low, you’re right.

The man behind the legend that is GSP offered a glimpse of the extreme measures ‘Rush’ must go to make weight before a fight. And it should come with a warning: Don’t try this at home. Seriously.

Firas Zahabi, head coach of the UFC welterweight champ, spoke to the Toronto Star’s Morgan Campbell about some of St.-Pierre’s secrets.

Zahabi, who spends six days a week working with GSP, says the champ’s walking around weight is 194. But dropping those pounds in time for a fight is actually a breeze for a specimen like him.

Read more: How GSP loses 23 pounds, then gains it back overnight

Those who ate Greek yogurt daily in one study lost 81 percent more abdominal fat.

A colleague—I’ll call her Mary—was in my office recently, complaining about her body with just those words. I listened, nodding sympathetically, because I couldn’t speak—I had a mouth full of almonds and was washing them down with chocolate milk. Mary stared at me as though I’d just backed over her dachshund. “You eat all the time, and you never gain weight!” she exclaimed. “What, is there a picture in your attic that gets fatter while you stay thin?”

“I never gain weight because I eat all the time,” I explained, reaching for a napkin. “Not snacking is exactly the wrong thing to do!”

Our bodies evolved to graze; when food gets scarce, we start to retain fat as a way of protecting ourselves from famine. “That’s exactly what happens when you don’t snack between meals,” I told her. “Your body doesn’t know where its next meal is coming from, so it’s afraid to shed the extra pounds.” Worse, you wind up eating more than you need at every meal.

Read more: The 6 Snacks You Should Eat Every Day

This morning tip lets you eat more of something delicious in order to get your bikini body slim.

Most diets call for eating less and cutting out certain foods completely. Which is why, when we came across a new weight-loss tip that involves eating more of something that’s both delicious and—get this—pretty damn fatty, we had to share it.

In a small-scale study, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a hospital in Boston affiliated with Harvard Medical School, found that when subjects ate walnuts at breakfast, they felt more satiated than those who didn’t snack on nuts. In fact, the walnuts were so filling that hours later, at lunch time the people in the study reported still feeling full.

Read more: What to Eat for Breakfast to Get Slim for Bikini Season