Obesity
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No Added Weight-Loss Benefits From Switching Healthy Diets?
“The weight-loss plateau typically seen at 6 months is physiological and cannot be overcome by simply switching to a different weight-loss diet...
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Endoscopic Procedure Targets ‘Hunger Hormone’ for Weight Loss
Researchers targeted the gastric fundus because its mucosal lining contains 80%-90% of the cells that produce ghrelin.
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Serious Mental Illness Tied to Multiple Physical Illnesses
Serious mental illness is associated with reduced life expectancy, and experts speculate that additional chronic illnesses — whether physical or...
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Alcohol to Blame: Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery
The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery recommends screening for alcohol intake both before and after metabolic and bariatric...
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Unplanned Pregnancy With Weight Loss Drugs: Fact or Fiction?
Birth control pills are less effective while on incretin hormones like semaglutide for several reasons.
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Will Diabetes Drugs Advance Osteoarthritis Management?
Researchers are looking to see if GLP-1 receptor agonists, DPP4 inhibitors, and SGLT2 inhibitors have beneficial effects in osteoarthritis.
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Tackling Lean Mass Loss When Weight Loss is Successful
Clinicians should consider the impact of lean mass loss, not just overall weight loss, when patients lose weight with GLP-1s.
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Video Games Marketing Food Impacts Teens’ Eating
Ads during live-streaming platforms for video games were linked with desire to eat foods high in salt, sugar, or fat, study finds.
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Intermittent Fasting + HIIT: Fitness Fad or Fix?
Any lifestyle change is hard, but with persistence the changes become habits and, eventually, those habits do become pleasurable.
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Wider Waist Increases Risk for Asthma Attacks
Study based on national survey data finds that larger waistlines were tied to increased likelihood for asthma attacks.
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From Pharma’s Factories Direct to You
Eli Lilly to prescribe GLP-1 RAs through its own telehealth platform, and Rx shipped directly to patients.