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Seattle Children’s, UW, and Group Health study 8,000 King County children Seattle—Children in King County, Washington, are more likely to be obese if they live in socially disadvantaged neighborhoods. This is according to a team of researchers at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, the University of Washington (U… |
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PORTLAND, Ore – 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 mechanism that reduces a person’s physical activity in response to a redu… |
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A team of researchers, led by a UC Davis veterinary endocrinologist, has shown for the first time that a surgical procedure in rats that is similar to bariatric surgery in humans can delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. The researchers also have identified biochemical changes caused by the surgeries that may be responsible for… |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool argue that anti-obesity drugs fail to provide lasting benefits for health and wellbeing because they tackle the biological consequences of obesity, and not the important psychological causes of overconsumption and weight gain. Dr Jason Halford, Reader in Appetite and Obesity at the Un… |
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As you move through your weight loss program, there’s a good chance that you will find yourself at a sticking point, where it just seems that no matter what you do, you just cannot lose any more weight. Typically, this happens when you’re battling with those last 5 or 10 pounds; in some cases, you [...] |
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Experts consider possible causes after study finds high fracture rate… When diet and exercise attempts haven’t worked, increasing numbers of overweight people have turned to bariatric, or weight-loss, surgery to shed pounds. But research reported in 2009 pointed to an unintended result: One of every five people wh… |
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Death risk only 0.3 percent, chances of serious complications 4.3 percent… For those considering bariatric surgery to combat significant obesity, a new study suggests the risk of complications may be much lower than what has previously been reported. The study, which looked at both gastric bypass surgery and laparoscopi… |
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The prevalence of obesity among American men has doubled in only 25 years, and it’s killing us. A 2004 survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 71% of men 20 years old and over were overweight and 31% were obese. The same survey conducted in the late 1970s had found [...] |
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Being obese in a weight-obsessive society can leave you feeling invisible. What’s worse is when the one ignoring you is your doctor, but that’s just what is happening inside clinics and hospitals every day. Newly released research in the May issue of The Journal of Internal General Medicine reveals that patients t… |
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