A greater obesity duration is associated with worse values for all cardiometabolic disease factors, according to a study from Loughborough University, UK.
People with obesity do not all share the same risk for the development of cardiometabolic...Dietetics
Official data indicate that around 42% of US adults aged 20 are obese — including 9% with severe obesity — and another 31% are overweight, writes MedicalBrief.
Data from the 2017–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey...
November 25th, 2020Obese patients over the age of 60 can lose an equivalent amount of weight as younger people using only lifestyle changes, according to a study from the University of Warwick and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust that...
Time-restricted eating, which restricts eating to specific hours of the day, did not impact weight among overweight adults with prediabetes or diabetes, according to a small study presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions...Dietetics
A healthy quality Mediterranean-like diet partially modifies the association between obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, according to a study from Uppsala University, Sweden.
Higher body mass (BMI) accounted for 4.0m deaths...Dietetics
Central fatness (excess fat stored around the abdomen) is associated with a higher risk of early death from any cause, regardless of overall body fat, whereas larger hips and thighs are associated with a lower risk, finds a study by researchers at...Dietetics
Researchers examined data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, organised by the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and looked at the relationship between cups of coffee drunk per day, and both total body fat percentage and...
May 13th, 2020
Scientists from the University of Gothenburg found a new method of reducing human body weight and fat mass using weighted vests in a small clinical trial. The study indicates that there is something comparable to built-in bathroom scales that...
April 8th, 2020
Most diets lead to modest weight loss and lower blood pressure, but effects largely disappear after a year, while the differences between popular diet programmes are typically small to trivial, according to a meta-analysis in The BMJ. Reasonably...
February 26th, 2020
There is currently insufficient evidence to recommend any of the herbal medicines examined in an Australian systematic review and meta-analysis.
Researchers at the University of Sydney led by senior author Dr Nick Fuller, says that with...
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. A subcategory, called sulphur amino acids, including methionine and cysteine, play various roles in metabolism and health. "For decades it has been understood that diets restricting sulphur amino...
January 29th, 2020
A New Zealand study put the popular Intermittent Fasting, Mediterranean and Paleo diets to a comparative test over a year in a "real world" setting, writes MedicalBrief.
Intermittent fasting – whereby participants limit their energy intake to...
Tim Noakes responds to last week's assessment by Alex Leaf of his dietary study as 'important', while accusing him of being 'disingenuous' in his claims.
Dr Noakes writes:
I acknowledge Mr Alex Leaf’s recent letter (1) to Medical Brief...
January 15th, 2020
To the Editor
Dr Tim Noakes’ recent study is an important contribution to the scientific literature, as one of the primary issues with any diet is that people cannot adhere to them over the long-term, writes nutritionist Alex Leaf. But his...
A small University of Cape Town observational study, led by Dr Tim Noakes, found that "type 2 diabetes (T2D) is reversible by restricting daily carbohydrate intake to less than 25g/day".
Until recently, low carbohydrate high fat (LCHF) diets...
January 8th, 2020
Evidence is accumulating that eating in a 6-hour period and fasting for 18 hours can trigger a metabolic switch from glucose-based to ketone-based energy, with increased stress resistance, increased longevity, and a decreased incidence of diseases,...
