Overweight & Obesity
Weight-loss procedure works long-term, without surgery
Could people struggling with obesity make headway in their efforts to shed pounds without having to go under the knife?
May 09, 2019
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News tagged with obese people
Overweight & Obesity
First randomized controlled trial of FMT for obesity shows potential progress
Using capsules filled with fecal matter from a lean donor, researchers successfully changed some of the composition of the gut microbiota of patients with obesity, a possible step toward a new treatment for weight loss. In ...
May 09, 2019
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Cardiology
Weight-loss surgery boosts success of procedure to fix A-fib
(HealthDay)—Profoundly obese people are prone to an irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation, but new research suggests that weight-loss surgery can improve the odds that a procedure to restore a normal heart rhythm ...
May 08, 2019
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Overweight & Obesity
Obesity and emotional problems appear to develop together from age 7
Obesity and emotional problems, such as feelings of low mood and anxiety, tend to develop hand-in-hand from as young as age 7 years, according to new research being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) ...
Apr 28, 2019
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Health
The exercise conundrum: sometimes active people put on more weight than couch potatoes – here's why
Governments are always telling us to eat less and exercise more to be healthier, but this presents an obvious problem. Being active is liable to make you hungrier, so there's a risk you end up eating extra to compensate, ...
Mar 29, 2019
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Genetics
Scientists identify genetic factors that may cause some people to become obese
Obesity is a major public-health problem in the United States and around the world, with an estimated 650 million people suffering from the condition. One of the biggest challenges of this ever-worsening condition is figuring ...
Mar 06, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds depression in millennials on the rise
New research, conducted by the University of Liverpool and University College London, has found that young people today are more likely to be depressed and to self-harm than they were 10 years ago, but antisocial behaviour ...
Feb 28, 2019
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Health
Diets consisting of fewer calories improve cell performance
The number of calories a person eats directly influences the performance of cells. A group of researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) has shown that low-calorie meals have a protective effect against some diseases. ...
Feb 13, 2019
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Genetics
Siberian indigenous people tolerate tick-borne infections more easily
Tomsk scientists have conducted a study to identify the characteristics of the course of tick-borne infections and their consequences among residents of several Siberian regions. The findings suggest that the indigenous peoples ...
Feb 05, 2019
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Overweight & Obesity
Half of employers say they are less inclined to recruit obese candidates – it's not OK
Obesity is one of the most pressing and controversial public health challenges. It has the distinction of being a crisis about which most people have an opinion – often based on a simple diagnosis – but for which nobody ...
Jan 21, 2019
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