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Lifestyle Changes Effective Against Child Obesity
Obese children and teenagers can lose significant weight through lifestyle changes that are occasionally paired with medication, a Dutch team has found in reviewing 64 randomized, controlled studies from five continents. Click here for more information on Weight Loss.
Exercise Shields Blood Vessels From Fatty Meals' Influence
If you exercise vigorously before eating a fatty meal, your arteries will likely still be able to dilate normally in response to the body's requirement for increased blood flow, a recent study has found. Click here for more information on Weight Loss.
Intestinal Chemical May Suppress Appetite, Fight Obesity
A biochemical produced by the small intestine every time we eat a fatty meal and which signals the brain to suppress appetite may be the answer to the obesity epidemic, a recent study suggests. Click here for more information on Weight Loss.
Diet Soda: Doorway to Weight Gain
Diet soda isn't the silver bullet to weight loss it's often made out to be. Nor does it prevent weight gain. In fact, drinking diet soda is strongly correlated with overweight and obesity. Click here for more information on Weight Loss.
Surgery Likely Better Than Exercise for Back Pain
The results of a four-year study on severe back pain show that spine surgery produces more and faster pain relief and greater improvement in function than exercise, physical therapy and analgesic drugs.
Weight-Loss Surgery Helps Obese Moms' Pregnancies, Newborns
Women who underwent dramatic weight loss after bariatric surgery had fewer pregnancy and delivery problems and fewer newborn complications than obese pregnant mothers, according to a recent study. Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
"Extreme Makeover" Cosmetic Surgery
In this Age of Obesity, more and more people are opting for multiple cosmetic surgery procedures in one sitting. Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
Healthy Breakfast a Predictor of Lower Weight
People who ate a healthy breakfast were found generally to weigh less than their counterparts who either ate a high-calorie, fatty meal or skipped it altogether. Click here for more information on Weight Loss.
Exercise Improves Outcome of Bariatric Surgery
Patients who incorporated regular physical activity into their lives after bariatric surgery lost more weight and had better general health and vitality and less depression and anxiety than those who were inactive, a recent study shows. Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
Weight-Loss Surgery Helps Obese Moms’ Pregnancies, Newborns
Women who underwent dramatic weight loss after bariatric surgery had fewer pregnancy and delivery problems and fewer newborn complications7 than obese pregnant mothers, according to a recent study. Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
Weight-Loss Surgery May Eliminate Liver Disease
A dangerous liver disease that’s a side effect of obesity appears to be completely overcome in a majority of patients as a result of the weight loss following bariatric surgery, according to a recently published report. Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
Obesity and Male Infertility
New Research suggests that obesity may have impact on male fertility. Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
Obesity May Numb Taste
Obesity may numb taste, resulting increased eating to satiate desire for taste.Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
Protein Found that Might Help in War on Obesity
The journal Cell Metabolism reports on a study in which mice when fed high-fat foods produced a protein from the liver called adropin. This protein may be a factor in controlling the metabolic response of the body to fatty food. Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
How Fen_Phen Suppresses Appetite
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center are trying to understand how Fen-phen behaves in the brain. Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
