News tagged with weight loss

Anti-obesity drugs with a modified lifestyle helps weight loss -- new study

A study led by the University of Leicester has found that anti-obesity drugs coupled with lifestyle advice are effective in reducing weight and BMI.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Top off breakfast with -- chocolate cake?

When it comes to diets, cookies and cake are off the menu. Now, in a surprising discovery, researchers from Tel Aviv University have found that dessert, as part of a balanced 600-calorie breakfast that also includes proteins ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Calories, not protein or carbs, are key to weight loss for people with diabetes

(Medical Xpress) -- Overweight or obese people with type 2 diabetes are more likely to reduce weight if they focus on cutting back on total calorie intake, rather than specific high protein/high carbohydrate diets according ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Heart hormone helps shape fat metabolism

It's well known that exercising reduces body weight because it draws on fat stores that muscle can burn as fuel. But a new study at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) suggests that ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dieting with the denomination, determination

As a brand new year gets underway, people all over America are resolving to better manage their weight and have a more healthy 2012. According to a new study, those starting new weight loss programs may be surprised to find ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bariatric surgery in adolescents improves obesity-related diseases within first 2 years

Today, about one in five children in the United States are obese. That means that in just one generation alone the number of obese kids in this country has quadrupled.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

FDA approves Roche skin cancer drug Erivedge

(AP) -- Federal regulators on Monday approved a pill that treats the most common type of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physician's weight may influence obesity diagnosis and care

A patient's body mass index (BMI) may not be the only factor at play when a physician diagnoses a patient as obese. According to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the diagnosis ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gut hormone leads to weight loss in overweight or obese patients

Giving overweight or obese patients a gut hormone that suppresses appetite leads to clinically beneficial weight loss as well as reduced blood pressure and cholesterol levels, finds a study published in the British Medical ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Impaired quality of life: A warning signal after oesophageal cancer surgery

A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that most patients who survive for at least five years after oesophageal cancer surgery recover an average quality of life. However, quality of life deteriorates signif ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists reassess weight loss surgery for type 2 diabetes

Weight loss surgery is not a cure for type 2 diabetes, but it can improve blood sugar control, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Surgery. Whereas some previous studies have claimed that up to 80 ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bariatric surgery associated with reduction in cardiovascular events and death

Among obese individuals, having bariatric surgery was associated with a reduced long-term incidence of cardiovascular deaths and events such as heart attack and stroke, according to a study in the January 4 issue of JAMA.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Evidence found for brain injury in diet-induced obesity

(Medical Xpress) -- The first evidence, reported today, of structural changes in the brains of rodents and humans with diet-induced obesity may help explain one of the most vexing problems of body weight control.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

More reasons to keep this New Year's weight loss resolution uncovered

Long-term healthy dietary interventions frequently induce a rapid weight decline, mainly in the first four to six months, followed by weight stabilization or regain, despite continued dieting. The partial regain may discourage ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New evidence that bacteria in large intestine have a role in obesity

Bacteria living in people's large intestine may slow down the activity of the "good" kind of fat tissue, a special fat that quickly burns calories and may help prevent obesity, scientists are reporting in ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Weight loss

Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health or physical fitness, is a reduction of the total body mass, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon and other connective tissue. It can occur unintentionally due to an underlying disease or can arise from a conscious effort to improve an overweight or obese state.

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