It may not be an Olympic sport yet, but yo-yo play is serious business. Especially in Cleveland this week, where the world’s most skilled yo-yo players are gathering for The World Yo-Yo Contest. The ...

Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? Yo-yo dieting is when you purposefully restrict food to lose weight, then stop ...

Yo-yo dieting, also known as “weight cycling,” describes the pattern of losing weight, regaining it and then dieting again. It’s a process that causes weight to go up and down like a yo-yo. This type ...

America’s best yo-yo player is from Portland, at least as of last week, when 27-year-old Aliyah Tan took home the title of 2026 National Yo-Yo Champion in Las Vegas on June 28. Tan has been competing ...

For years, “yo-yo dieting” has been blamed for wrecking metabolism and causing lasting damage, but a major new review says the fear may be wildly overblown. After analyzing decades of studies in ...

In the quest for sustainable weight loss, many individuals encounter the phenomenon known as the yo-yo effect. This cycle of weight loss followed by weight regain can be frustrating and demoralizing, ...

Every year on June 6, we celebrate National Yo-Yo Day. It coincides with the birthday of Chicago businessman Donald F. Duncan Sr, who in the 1930s, got into the yo-yo business. Yo-Yo was first sold in ...

America owes its fascination with the yo-yo mainly to Chicago businessman Donald F. Duncan Sr., who spotted it while on a business trip to San Francisco in 1928. It was being used by Pedro Flores, a ...

Got an extra 400 bucks? How about spending it on a yo-yo? A really nice yo-yo, a state-of-the-art, forged-magnesium-alloy, ultralong-spinning yo-yo. Later this year, Duncan Toys, a seller of ...