News tagged with weight loss
Related topics: diet , body mass index , obesity , type 2 diabetes , food intake
Exenatide promotes weight loss when added to diet and exercise
In combination with diet and exercise, the diabetes drug exenatide helped nondiabetic, obese individuals lose over three times more weight than those receiving a placebo, or dummy treatment, for 6 months.
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Moderately Reduced Carbohydrate Diet Keeps People Feeling Full Longer
A modest reduction in the amount of carbohydrates eaten, without calorie restriction and weight loss, appears to increase a sense of fullness, which may help people eat less, a preliminary study found.
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Brain molecule reduces food intake
Researchers at Imperial College London have identified a new appetite suppressant for promoting weight loss that they say works in rodents and may one day be used to develop an effective anti-obesity treatment.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Plant-based, low-carb diet may promote weight loss and improve cholesterol levels
Overweight individuals who ate a low-calorie, low-carbohydrate diet high in plant-based proteins for four weeks lost weight and experienced improvements in blood cholesterol levels and other heart disease risk factors, according ...
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Sleep restriction results in weight gain despite decreases in appetite and consumption
According to new research, in the presence of free access to food, sleep restricted subjects reported decrease in appetite, food cravings and food consumption; however, they gained weight over the course of the study. Thus, ...
Jun 08, 2009 |
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A taste of help to keep cancer patients' pounds up
(AP) -- The statistic is shocking: Severe malnutrition and weight loss play a role in at least one in five cancer deaths. Yet nutrition too often is an afterthought until someone's already in trouble.
May 18, 2009 |
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Weight loss in old age may signal dementia
A new study shows that older people who are thinner or are losing weight quickly are at a higher risk of developing dementia, especially if they started out overweight or obese. The research is published in the May 19, 2009, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 18, 2009 |
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Calorie restriction causes temporal changes in liver metabolism
Moderate calorie restriction causes temporal changes in the liver and skeletal muscle metabolism, whereas moderate weight loss affects muscle, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the Americ ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 04, 2009 |
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Weight loss competitions produce encouraging results
Statewide weight loss competitions appear to be a potentially successful weapon in the battle against obesity. These programs can produce weight loss in large numbers of people at minimal cost, according to a new study from ...
May 01, 2009 |
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Researcher finds reason for weight gain
Liwei Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, is the lead author of a research paper showing that weight gain and obesity are more linked to ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Study examines outcomes of gastric bypass surgery in morbidly obese and superobese patients
Superobese gastric bypass patients appear to have improvements in quality of life and obesity-related co-existing conditions, and despite losing weight remain obese after surgery, according to a report in the April issue ...
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Diabetes? Some beat it, but are they cured?
(AP) -- JoAnne Zoller Wagner's diagnosis as prediabetic wasn't enough to compel her to change her habits and lose 30 pounds. Not even with the knowledge her sister had died because of diabetes.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 19, 2009 |
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Omega-3 fatty acids may benefit cancer patients undergoing major operations
New research from Trinity College Dublin published in this month's Annals of Surgery points to a potentially significant advance in the treatment of patients undergoing major cancer surgery. The study was carried out by the ...
Apr 10, 2009 |
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