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Study suggests exercise may protect bone health after weight loss surgery
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): Although weight loss surgery is a highly effective treatment for obesity, it can be detrimental to bone health. A new study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research suggests that exercise may help address this shortcoming.
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Genetic variant in children may reduce leptin production resulting in obes
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 6 (ANI): Children of African ancestry are at a higher risk of developing obesity if they possess a genetic variant that reduces their ability to produce the hormone, leptin, a recent study has found.
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Weight-loss surgeries may weaken bone health, suggests study
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Boston (Massachusetts) [US], December 6 (ANI): Researchers from the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts claims that common weight-loss surgeries for adolescents with obesity called sleeve gastrectomy may lead to harmful effects on bones.
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Eating plant-based diet can improve metabolism, study suggests
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 5 (ANI): A study published in JAMA Network Open by researchers from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, claims that a plant-based diet can improve cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight individuals and boost metabolism rate leading to faster weigh
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Overweight, obese adults often don't accept weight problems: Study
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 5 (ANI): More than 40 percent of US adults were overweight and nearly 10 percent with obesity did not consider themselves to be overweight, suggests a cross-sectional analysis of NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) data.
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Study reveals AI abdominal fat measure predicts heart attack, stroke
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 4 (ANI): Automated deep learning analysis of abdominal CT images produces a more precise measurement of body composition and predicts major cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke, better than overall weight or body mass index (BMI), according to a st
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NSE Indices launches Nifty 500 multicap 50:25:25 index
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 3 (ANI): NSE's index services subsidiary NSE Indices Ltd has launched a new index called Nifty 500 multicap 50:25:25, which aims to measure the performance of portfolio comprising large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap companies with target weights assigned t
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Rebel Wilson flaunts her weight loss in snowy picture
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 2 (ANI): Two days after revealing that she has hit her weight goal early, American actor Rebel Wilson on Tuesday (local time) celebrated her weight loss progress with a new picture of herself.
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Overweight or obese adults often don't recognise they have a weight proble
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 1 (ANI): A cross-sectional analysis of NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) data found that more than 40 per cent of US adults were overweight and nearly 10 per cent with obesity did not consider themselves to be overweight.
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Plant-based diet ramps up metabolism, according to new study
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 1 (ANI): A plant-based diet boosts after-meal burn, leads to weight loss, and improves cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight individuals, according to a new randomised control trial published in JAMA Network Open by researchers with the Physicians Committee for
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It's about being healthy: Rebel Wilson says she reached her goal weight ea
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 30 (ANI): Australian actor Rebel Wilson who has been working on her ideal body for a long time, on Saturday night (local time) revealed that she has reached her goal weight for 2020.
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Popular weight-loss surgery may lead to weaker bone health in teenagers, s
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Boston (Massachusetts) [US], November 29 (ANI): While many adolescents consider going for weight loss surgeries, researchers have found one of the surgery's common side effects noticed on them. They found that common weight loss surgery for adolescents with obesity called sleeve gastrectomy
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