Shedding pounds is a key element to treating type 2 diabetes, but even with this motivation, many people who want to lose weight have difficulty doing so. Weight loss through Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery along with lifestyle-intensive medical management—diabetes medication… Read More ›
More than one-third of medical students harbor a substantial degree of bias toward obese individuals and many are unaware that they possess such a bias, according to a study published in the journal Academic Medicine Thursday. This mind-set may hinder… Read More ›
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has been busy burnishing his legacy as a fierce public health advocate. He banned smoking in public places, restricted trans fats in restaurants, created sanitary grading in restaurants, required calorie counts to be posted… Read More ›
Recently, a New York Supreme Court judge struck down the soda ban proposed by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg last fall. I’m on record in the JAMA Forum as being against the ban in the first place. But I… Read More ›
By Stacy M. Carter, PhD, MPH, and Helen L. Walls, PhD, MPH Last month, JAMA published a systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and all-cause mortality. The researchers, led by Katherine M. Flegal, PhD,… Read More ›
Does weight loss really have to be the proverbial bitter pill? Researchers in Belgium who’ve studied how receptors in the gut respond to sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami taste sensations say the answer may be yes—literally. In a review… Read More ›
Overweight patients with type 2 diabetes are usually told by physicians to modify their diets and increase physical activity in the hope of causing the condition to go into remission. But a study appearing today in JAMA suggests that even… Read More ›
Offering cheese and vegetables may be a winning combination for kids’ snacks, researchers report today in the journal Pediatrics, producing satiety with fewer calories than potato chips. The availability of such high-calorie snacks as potato chips, cookies, and candy has… Read More ›
Researchers have linked low levels of a hormone that’s secreted from fat cells with a significant increased risk of pancreatic cancer, a finding that could lead to earlier detection of or new treatment approaches for pancreatic cancer. Using data from… Read More ›
Using a mobile device to track food consumption and get feedback from a weight loss coach helped patients lose more weight than a traditional weight loss program, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine today. Intensive… Read More ›
