Cocoa supplementation can markedly reduce the severity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in obese mice, according to a Penn State study, who suggest the results have implications for people.
Cocoa powder, a popular food ingredient most...
April 14th, 2021With obesity affecting 40% of the US population, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has released new recommendations on the therapeutic role of intragastric balloons (IGBs), reports MedPage Today. These devices have been associated...
March 24th, 2021Although the endless, petty "tribalism and arguments" around diet are tiresome, a recent head-to-head study between low-carb and low-fat diets is worth serious discussion, says Dr Rohin Francis on his YouTube Medlife Crisis channel.
This is a...
February 17th, 2021More than a third (35%) of people who took a new drug for treating obesity lost more than one-fifth (≥20%) of their total body weight, according to a large international trial, writes MedicalBrief. Semaglutide, already approved and used for...
January 27th, 2021People on a low-fat, plant-based diet ate fewer daily calories but had higher insulin and blood glucose levels, compared to when they ate a low-carbohydrate, animal-based diet, according to a small but highly controlled study at the US National...
January 20th, 2021Patients with type 2 diabetes who follow a strict low carbohydrate diet (LCD) for six months may temporarily experience greater rates of remission compared with other recommended diets without adverse effects, a meta-analysis found.
However, most...
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...
