Posted August 21, 2024 Ozempic – known generically as semaglutide – has taken the weight-loss market by storm, promising to help people shed pounds quickly. Though many use the drug to reduce body weight, it is mostly prescribed for treating type 2 diabetes in adults and carries a high price without insurance coverage. But what...
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology > Expounding on ObesityCOMMENTARY Yoni Freedhoff, MD DISCLOSURES | June 28, 2024 Yes, there’s still much to find offensive, but South Park: The End of Obesity, in just 51 minutes, does more to explain some of obesity’s realities, its pharmacotherapy, and weight bias than the mainstream media has done perhaps ever....
Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD August 03, 2023 Time-restricted eating (TRE) can be a practical, easy-to-follow way for some people to control their daily food intake and lose weight. It precludes a person’s need to pay close attention to how much they eat as long as they confine consumption to a limited time window. Plus, results from several...
by University of Bristol Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the University of Bristol and Imperial College London have found that a high Body Mass Index (BMI) of a mother before and during pregnancy is not a major cause of high BMI in their offspring—indicating that childhood and teen obesity is more likely to be...
Obese people run a higher-than-average risk of depression or anxiety, the result of a combination of factors: poor diet, lack of physical activity, and an accumulation of fat cells in their body called visceral adipocytes. However, obesity alone can’t cause anxious or depressive behaviours – far from it. In a new review published in Trends in...
Credit…Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters By Christina Caron Children ages 5 to 11 may be eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine by early next month: two shots spaced three weeks apart. But unlike kids 12 and older, who get the same dosage as adults, the kids in the younger age group will receive 10 micrograms of vaccine per dose, or one-third the amount...
by Todd Hollingshead, Brigham Young University For years now, 10,000 steps a day has become the gold standard for people trying to improve their health—and recent research shows some benefits can come from even just 7,500 steps. But if you’re trying to prevent weight gain, a new Brigham Young University study suggests no number of...
A recent review concludes that people with obesity have a reduced ability to detect and discriminate smell compared with those who are not obese. Obesity is a medical condition characterized by an excessive amount of body fat. It is a global issue that affects millions of people worldwide, and it is a risk factor for diabetes and...
