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One reason obesity is particularly concerning is that it is a known risk factor for diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Additionally, obesity seems to increase the risk of many cancers, including uterine cancer. Obese women have been found to have three times the risk of developing uterine cancer compared to women of normal […]

Good news for those who have had, or are considering, bariatric surgery. A new meta-analysis shows that at 5-year follow-up, three commonly performed weight loss surgery procedures provided substantial and lasting weight loss with a low mortality risk. The results were published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. Consistent with previous studies, […]

Those who understand obesity know it is not a simple problem of overeating and being inactive. One of the causes suspected in having an impact on obesity is the environment. Researchers have made significant advances in understanding important environmental causes of obesity as well as finding several genes that might be implicated. Major efforts are […]

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a well-recognized part of everyone’s vocabulary when we talk about weight. It is the most commonly used measurement of body size, yet it is not a perfect indicator of obesity or risk. BMI is a measurement based solely on weight and height, and doesn’t take into account other factors such […]

Did you know that the human body is programmed to work against your weight loss efforts? In fact, it’s programmed to defend its weight and, when it senses weight loss, it starts cutting down its energy expenditure. To understand why this is, it’s important to first know how the body expends energy (or burns calories).  […]

Do you thrive on exercise? Do you hate it? It turns out that the brain responds differently to exercise in lean versus overweight women, according to a new study. It was previously discovered that many overweight people’s brains operate differently than the brains of leaner people when they look at images related to eating. Now, […]

Rosie O’Donnell shared some news on Friday: she had weight loss surgery after surviving a serious heart attack. O’Donnell has dropped 40 pounds since undergoing a procedure known as the gastric sleeve (also called vertical sleeve gastrectomy or just “sleeve”). This is the same procedure that comedian Lisa Lampanelli underwent last year. Losing 40 pounds […]

A new editorial in the journal The Lancet: Diabetes & Endocrinology asks why bariatric surgery is only being used as a “last resort”.  Obesity is a cause of major health concerns like diabetes, high blood pressure, and is a risk factor for many types of cancer. A significant point in the editorial is that “despite the […]

It makes sense that important medical treatments like surgery would go to the people who are in most need of them. However, many of the people who most need bariatric surgery aren’t getting it, according to new research published in the peer-reviewed journal, JAMA Surgery.  Currently, body mass index (BMI), an estimate of obesity using […]

Since obesity is such a wide-spread and significant health problem, people may think that most primary care physicians are discussing the dangers of obesity and treatment options with all their overweight/obese patients.  However, this does not appear to be the case. Now groups including the American Heart Association (AHA) are hoping to change that. This […]