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Weight Loss, Dieting and Obesity

Weight Loss & Obesity Research Blog - Archive 0012.



Making your way through the buffet

Jan 14, 2005 - MSNBC

How to outwit and enjoy an enticing spread.


Researchers identify the link between heart failure and weight loss

Jan 13, 2005 - EurekAlert & Journal of Clinical Investigation doi: 10.1172/JCI200522324

Congestive heart failure is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease and related death, and is associated with elevated levels of angiotensin II in the blood (which causes vessel contraction and high blood pressure) in addition to muscle wasting. Although this weight loss is an important predictor of poor outcome in heart failure, the mechanisms underlying this association are poorly understood.


Added sugar displaces food groups lowering quality of preschooler diets

Jan 12, 2005 - EurekAlert / Journal of Pediatrics

American preschoolers get about 14 to 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day, on average, mostly from fruit-flavored drinks, high-fat desserts and cola-type soft drinks which displace the grain, vegetable, fruit and dairy food groups and lower the quality of their diet


U.S. unveils new dietary guidelines

Jan 12, 2005 - MSNBC

Government stresses balance, exercise, counting calories


Working out doesn't guarantee weight loss

Jan 11, 2005 - MSNBC

Exercise won't burn enough calories to make up for overeating. To lose weight, take a close look at calories in versus calories out.


Weight loss may be an early sign of dementia in the elderly

Jan 10, 2005 - EurekAlert / Arch Neurol. 2005; 62: 20 – 22.

Dementia-associated weight loss begins before the onset of the definite dementia symptoms and accelerates by the time of the diagnosis.


Sleeping less may be related to weight gain

Jan 10, 2005 - EurekAlert / Archives of Internal Medicine

Researchers stress the need to better understand the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States by studying how loss of sleep alters the complex metabolic pathways that control appetite, food intake and energy expenditure.


Diet and Genes

Jan 10, 2005 - MSNBC / Jan 17, 2005 - Newsweek

It isn't just what you eat that can kill you, and it isn't just your DNA that can save you - it's how they interact.


Get a grip on those inner voices - Secrets to keep yourself positive while trying to lose weight

Jan 7, 2005 - MSNBC

Even when some people dine alone, they have the company of four or more internal voices.


Weight loss strategies work in people with pre-diabetes

Jan 6, 2005 - American Journal of Preventive Medicine / Center for the Advancement of Health

Adults with pre-diabetes can lose up to 3 percent of their body weight using diet, exercise and behavioral strategies, according to a systematic review of studies that analyzed weight-loss strategies for pre-diabetics


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