News tagged with weight loss

If you want to lose weight, find a mountain retreat

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found the secret to effortless weight loss: spend some time at high altitude. Even a week on a mountain retreat can produce weight loss in sedentary people eating as much as ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Do steaks make you big?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adjusting the intake of high protein foods like meat, eggs and milk products could determine whether you become a rugby player or marathon runner and may help you lose weight, according to ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Pre-teens make their own decisions on diet, exercise and weight-loss

Eleven-year olds definitely have their own opinions about diet, exercise and weight-loss; and it is mostly their opinions — not those of their parents — that affect their lifestyle changes. Nevertheless, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 25, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers find nonprofit weight loss program beats obesity

In the battle against obesity, new research has found that it may not be necessary to spend a lot on a weight loss program when cheaper, nonprofit alternatives may work just as well.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Putting on the pounds after weight loss? Hit the gym to maintain health gains

Although obesity is a major risk factor for disease, much of the threat may be associated with the metabolic (or cardiometabolic) syndrome, a cluster of risk factors related to diabetes and heart disease. Losing weight can ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Potential mechanisms for future anti-obesity drugs identified

An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has, for the first time, identified the neurological and cellular signaling mechanisms that contribute to satiety — the sensation of feeling ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Diet alone will not likely lead to significant weight loss

Newly-published research by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University demonstrates that simply reducing caloric intake is not enough to promote significant weight loss. This appears to be due to a natural compensatory ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Bypass method alone does not improve insulin resistance

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bypass weight-loss surgeries do not improve insulin resistance independent of weight loss, say researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC).

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inactivity 'no contributor' to childhood obesity epidemic

A new report from the EarlyBird Diabetes Study suggests that physical activity has little if any role to play in the obesity epidemic among children. Obesity is the key factor behind diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Obesity epidemic may be flattening out - but no time for complacency say experts

(PhysOrg.com) -- The prevalence of childhood obesity might be stabilising in developed countries, but there is still much to be done to combat this major threat to health, according to a Seminar co-authored ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Personality traits influencing weight loss

Being too optimistic could harm weight loss efforts. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal, BioPsychoSocial Medicine, reveals the psychological characteristics that may contribute to weight loss.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lifestyle changes may stave off diabetes for a decade

Sustaining modest weight loss for 10 years, or taking an anti-diabetic drug over that time, can prevent or lower the incidence of type 2 diabetes in people at high risk for developing the disease, according to the Diabetes ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mood improves on low-fat, but not low-carb, diet plan

After one year, a low-calorie, low-fat diet appears more beneficial to dieters' mood than a low-carbohydrate plan with the same number of calories, according to a report in the November 9 issue of Archives of Internal Me ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Weight loss surgery can significantly improve migraines: study

Bariatric surgery may provide an added benefit to severely obese patients besides weight loss: it can also help alleviate the excruciating pain of migraine headaches, according to new research from The Miriam Hospital, published ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Diet-exercise combo best for obese seniors

For obese seniors, dieting and exercise together are more effective at improving physical performance and reducing frailty than either alone.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | 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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