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Emerging Non-Surgical Gastric Devices Gain Approval for Weight Management
FDA clears two novel weight loss devices and oral products show strong evidence of substantial effectiveness, with 10% weight loss possible.
Overcoming Obstacles to Obesity Care—Is Your Practice Current?
Food Journaling for Just 15 Minutes a Day Leads to Meaningful Weight Loss
Using a digital food tracker or mobile food journaling app for as little as 15 minutes daily promises meaningful weight loss for those who stick with it.
Childhood Circumstances Offer Clues to Adult Obesity
Drawing on insights from the patient’s childhood environment may prove meaningful in developing more effective weight management strategies in adults.
Patients Can Be Trained to Curb Food Cravings, Seek Better Food Choices
Classifying Patients with Obesity to Predict Bariatric Surgery Outcomes
Comprehensive, Family-Focused Care Needed to Manage Pediatric Obesity
Beyond Genetics, DNA Methylation Identified as New Factor in Obesity
Clinical Reevaluation Needed to Prompt Use of Antiobesity Medications
Obese Patients Achieved Weight Loss with Vagus Nerve Blockade (vBloc)
USPSTF Found Insufficient Evidence to Recommend for or Against Lipid Screening in Asymptomatic Children and Teens
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reviewed evidence for screening asymptomatic children and adolescents for both familial hypercholesterolemia and multifactorial dyslipidemia.
Sorting Out Weight-Loss Programs that Meet Weight Management Guidelines
A wide variety of weight loss programs are in the market place. Patients have to research and decide which weight loss program is right for them.
What Works for Weight Loss Maintenance?
Even as experts continue to wrestle with the optimal methods of weight loss, whether surgical or nonsurgical, they're also focusing on the best ways to maintain the weight loss.
Motivational Interviewing: Key to Inspiring Weight Loss?
Borrowing a technique from addiction specialists, obesity specialists find motivational interviewing helps weight loss patients.
New Clues About Weight Loss Success
Early lapses on a weight loss program predict overall weight loss success, even if weight loss on track, study finds. Acceptance-based treatment beats standard treatment.
Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Reverses Type 2 Diabetes in Nearly All Teens in Recent Study
Three years after undergoing bariatric surgery, adolescents experienced major improvements in their weight, metabolic health, and quality of life, according to findings from the prospective, NIH sponsored Teen-LABS (Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery) study.
Prescription Weight Loss Drugs: Patients Want, But Not Long-Term
While speaking at ObesityWeek 2015, Daniel Bessesen, MD proposed a new paradigm, thinking of prescription weight loss medicines as a treatment for a chronic condition—obesity—similar to how physicians treat hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes.
Obesity, Cancer: Evidence Grows Supporting the Link
Overweight and obesity increase the risk of multiple forms of cancer, yet patients remain largely unaware of the association, according to experts speaking at ObesityWeek 2015 in Los Angeles.
Osteoarthritis and Obesity: Anticipated Comorbidities with New Clues to Care
Obesity is a long-known major risk factor for osteoarthritis. Now, scientists are uncovering new information about just how risky excess weight is for joints. They're also discovering other mechanisms besides obesity that may drive risk.
Neuromodulation Shows Promise in the Treatment of Obesity
Neuromodulation targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (LDLPFC) decreased calorie consumption and increased weight loss in adults with obesity, according to a recent study.
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