Posts Tagged ‘loss’

Reading List: Trouble For Meat Lovers, Weight Loss Apps and Take Back Your Lunch Break

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‘Tough love’ no good for obesity interventions, study finds

Obese people support lifestyle-change interventions, rather than those that purely promote weight loss. Researchers interviewed 142 obese people about their opinions on interventions ranging from gastric bands to legal regulation, finding that non-commercial, non-stigmatizing techniques were preferred.

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Weight loss may be associated with improvements in hot flushes in overweight and obese women

Among overweight and obese women with bothersome hot flushes during menopause, an intensive weight loss intervention program may lead to improvements in flushing, according to a new study.

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What’s motivation got to do with weight loss?

Energy in, energy out, it’s the basic equation to weight loss, or is it? With more than two thirds of Americans classified as overweight or obese, a study examines how motivation might be a large contributor to sticking with weight loss programs.

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Diet Myths, Debunked: Does Chewing Gum Lead to Weight Loss?

We hear nutrition advice all over the place — from friends, family or even strangers (I’ve heard the strangest things in elevators!).   In this new series, we’re taking on nutritional urban legends…



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Diet alone will not likely lead to significant weight loss, study suggests

Newly published research demonstrates that simply reducing caloric intake is not enough to promote significant weight loss.

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Implantation of a Ventricular Assist Device may aid in Weight Loss for Obese Patients Awaiting a Heart Transplant

For patients who are awaiting a heart transplant, Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) can literally mean the difference between life and death — helping the patient’s own weakened heart to continue pumping until a suitable donor organ becomes available. In a new study, doctors note that in addition to assisting the patient’s own heart, LVADs can aid obese heart transplant patients in weight reduction. Weight loss in such patients is important because just as obesity is a risk factor for heart failure, it also is associated with poor outcomes after a heart transplant. It is therefore considered a relative contra-indication for transplant.

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Weight-bearing exercise does not prevent increased bone turnover during weight loss

During weight loss, bones are being remodeled — breaking down old bone and forming new bone — at an accelerated rate. As a result, bone density is reduced, causing increased fragility. In a new study researchers found that weight-bearing exercise, in this case, fast walking or jogging, did not prevent the increased bone turnover caused by weight loss.

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Energy Gap Useful Tool For Successful Weight Loss Maintenance Strategy

The term energy gap was coined to estimate the change in energy balance (intake and expenditure) behaviors required to achieve and sustain reduced body weight outcomes in individuals and populations. In a new commentary, researchers more precisely clarify the concept of the energy gap (or energy gaps) and discuss how the concept can be properly used as a tool to help understand and address obesity.

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Depressed women can lose weight as successfully as others do

Women with major depression were no less likely than were women without it to have successful results with a weight loss program, according to an new article.

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