Eating disorders are often dismissed as a lack of discipline or picky eating by much of society. Whether it's anorexia, bulimia or binge eating disorder, they are serious mental health conditions that require medical monitoring ...
Retatrutide, a next-generation GLP-1 weight-loss drug, is not yet approved for use. Nevertheless, online forums reveal that people are purchasing unapproved versions of the drug, which are not intended for human consumption, ...
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Bariatric surgery reduces the risk of obesity-related cancer regardless of sex and age, according to a large Nordic registry study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet. The results, published in JAMA Surgery, strengthen ...
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Staying active is key to staying healthy, and fitness trackers and smartwatches have become popular tools for tracking activity. But just how many steps does someone need to take each day to lose weight? Experts say there's ...
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Children who follow higher trajectories of body mass index (BMI) and fat mass index across childhood report greater body dissatisfaction at age 14, in both boys and girls, according to a new study published in PLOS One by ...
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Scientists have discovered that the drug losartan, commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, boosts brown adipose tissue activity in mice, enhancing their metabolism. This indicates that repurposing losartan—an angiotensin ...
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The fate of global health does not rest on any single disease. True preparedness means pairing the fight against illness with strength in finance, climate, defense and security. The COVID-19 pandemic, which brought the world ...
A new analysis of U.S. national health data finds that high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), a blood marker of inflammation, rises across the stages of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome, with the largest ...
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Is it harmful to your health to lose weight repeatedly and then gain it back again? In a recent article in Nature Reviews Endocrinology, DZD researchers Norbert Stefan and Faidon Magkos of the University of Copenhagen offer ...
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People preparing for metabolic-bariatric surgery may eat quite differently from one another, but those differences do not necessarily translate into different measures of cardiometabolic health, according to a new Concordia ...
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