Category: Weight Loss
Taking a drug like Ozempic? What you need to know about risks of suicidal thoughts and contraception failure
Australian health authorities recommend that if you’re taking GLP-1 medicines, you should tell your doctor if you experience new or worsening depression, suicidal thoughts, or any unusual changes in mood or behaviour.
Making GLP-1 weight loss drugs cheaper isn’t enough to address America’s obesity problem – here’s why
Most patients with obesity and related health problems will likely need to use these medications indefinitely. According to emerging research, people who stop taking them typically regain the weight they lost. Realistically, very few people who take GLP-1 drugs can maintain their weight loss with lifestyle changes alone.
Prediabetes remission possible without dropping pounds, our new study finds
The answer lies in how fat is distributed throughout the body. Not all body fat behaves the same way.
‘Fat but fit’: what the latest study reveals
Rachel Woods, University of Lincoln Being slightly overweight might not shorten your life, but being very thin might. A large Danish study tracking more than 85,000 adults has found that people with a BMI below 18.5 were nearly three times…
Single-food ‘mono diets’: are they effective, pointless, or just plain dangerous?
With summer in full swing, many people will be tempted by supposedly miraculous dieting tricks to lose those excess kilos that prevent them from enjoying the perfect physique. Among them are so-called “mono diets”: restrictive regimes that consist of exclusively eating one type of food for a period of time, with the aim of quickly losing weight and “detoxing”.
Biden wanted Medicaid to pay for weight-loss drugs. Trump just said it doesn’t have to.
While doctors and patient advocates say these drugs are critical to helping patients struggling with obesity and can save money in the long run by reducing comorbidities such as heart disease, others say the medications are just too expensive for most states to afford.
The paradox of weight loss: why losing pounds may not always lead to better health
research indicates that significant weight loss – greater than 10kg – can actually increase the risk of early death in obese people with cardiovascular disease.
Some vegetables are pretty low in fibre. So which veggies are high-fibre heroes?
Many people looking to improve their health try to boost fibre intake by eating more vegetables.
But while all veggies offer health benefits, not all are particularly high in fibre.
You can eat loads of salads and vegetables and still fall short of your recommended daily fibre intake.
So, which vegetables pack the biggest fibre punch?
Exercise does increase calorie burn – but probably not as much as you might hope
The most rigorous and robust evidence available on the topic actually shows that exercise does increase energy expenditure – though perhaps not as much as we might expect.
Ozempic and similar weight loss drugs may lower risk of 42 health conditions, but also pose risks
Now, research suggests that GLP-1 drugs could help treat dozens of ailments, including cognitive issues and addiction problems. However, it also found previously unidentified risks.
How we diagnose and define obesity is set to change – here’s why, and what it means for treatment
Athletes with a relatively high muscle mass, for example, may have a higher BMI. Even when that athlete has a BMI over 30 kg/m², their higher weight is due to excess muscle rather than excess fatty tissue.
Even small diet tweaks can lead to sustainable weight loss – here’s how
It’s a well-known fact that to lose weight, you either need to eat less or move more. But how many calories do you really need to cut out of your diet each day to lose weight? It may be less than you think.
What if you could rank food by ‘healthiness’ as you shopped?
Nutrient profiling systems use algorithms to simplify picking healthy groceries
Weight loss drugs help with fat loss – but they cause bone and muscle loss too
GLP-1-based drugs such as semaglutide (Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro) work by helping people to feel less hungry. This results in them eating less – leading to weight loss.
Studies show that these drugs are very effective in helping people lose weight. In clinical trials of people with obesity, these drugs lead to a weight loss of up to 20% body weight in some instances.
But it’s important to note that not all the weight lost is fat. Research shows that up to one-third of this weight loss is so-called “non-fat mass” – this includes muscle and bone mass.
You could be stress eating these holidays – or eating your way to stress. 5 tips for the table
Stress eating can include binge eating, grazing, eating late at night, eating quickly or eating past the feeling of fullness. It can also involve craving or eating foods we don’t normally choose.