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Study: Hormone neurotensin predicts ablility to maintain weight loss
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
In many nations today, 50 per cent of the population is overweight, and the percentage is rising. Many people are successful in losing weight. Maintaining weight loss is the difficult part.
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Bariatric surgery may reverse diabetes complications for people with obesi
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A research team led by the University of Michigan Health Department of Neurology followed more than 120 patients who underwent bariatric surgery for obesity over two years after the procedure. They found that all metabolic risk factors for developing diabetes, such as high glucose and lipid
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Smell impact mouse metabolism, ageing: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Female odours and pheromones enable mice to lose weight and live longer lives, which may have implications for people, according to researchers at the University of Otago.
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Brain function changes during dieting: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and Harvard Medical School have now shown in mice that communication in the brain changes during a diet.
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Drugs could replicate the long-term benefits of Bariatric Surgery: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Gastric bypass and related procedures, known collectively as bariatric surgery, offer one solution, often resulting in lasting weight loss and even remission of diabetes. But these operations carry risk, aren't suitable for everyone and aren't accessible for many of the hundreds of millions
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Shedding pounds may benifit your heart, even if some weight regained: Rese
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Behavioural weight loss programs can help people lose and maintain a healthy weight by encouraging lifestyle and behaviour changes, such as eating healthy foods and increasing physical activity.
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Losing weight may be beneficial to your heart, even if some weight is rega
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
A systematic review of research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a peer-reviewed American Heart Association journal, found that losing weight with lifestyle changes in an intensive behavioural weight loss programme was linked to a decrease in risk factors for ca
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Obesity diagnosis may result in significant weight loss without surgery or
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Imagine getting the benefits of gastric bypass surgery without having to go under the knife -- a new class of compounds may be able to do just that. These potential treatments significantly reduce body weight and blood glucose levels in laboratory animals.
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Researchers reveal how local grocery stores affect patients post weight-lo
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The ability to walk to a nearby grocery store may be a crucial factor in determining how much weight a patient loses over the long run after bariatric surgery.
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Natural peptides may reduce risk of type 2 diabetes, other obesity-related
Updated : 3 years ago IST
An innovative strategy to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and other obesity-related disorders including hepatic steatosis may exist thanks to a peptide (small protein) called PEPITEM, according to recent research (fatty liver).
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Researchers reveal how nearby food stores affect patients after weight-los
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
According to new research, being able to walk to a nearby food retail shop may be a key determinant in long-term weight loss following bariatric surgery.
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Natural peptides may tackle 'root cause' of obesity-related conditions
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to new research, a peptide (small protein) called PEPITEM could provide a game-changing approach to lowering the risk of type 2 diabetes and other obesity-related diseases like hepatic steatosis (fatty liver).
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