Low Fat, Low Carb, or Mediterranean cooking?
Obesity is a worldwide problem and is getting worse. Losing weight is difficult for most people. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports fewer than 25 percent of Americans who try diets actually lose weight and a majority who do lose weight have difficulty maintaining the loss. Billions of dollars are spent on weight loss programs. VOA’s Melinda Smith has more on recent findings that may put to rest the argument about which diet works the best.
Understanding Emotions Improves Our Food Choices
Menus and advertising affect our emotions, and if we understand those emotions, we make better food choices, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Authors Blair Kidwell, David M. Hardesty, and Terry L. Childers (all University of Kentucky) examined the “emotional intelligence” of consumers, including obese people. They found that people who [...]
Bariatric Surgery: Improves Health in a Cost Efficient Manner
Bariatric surgery has been said that it can pay for itself within a few years by helping to reduce insurance claims resulting from medical conditions that obese people can develop. While that might seem to be an overestimation, research shows that it is indeed correct, and that in most cases, surgical cost can be recovered [...]
Doctor Gets Death Threats for Exposing Fat Loss Secret to General Public
A new breakthrough in weight loss is being called, “All you now need in order to forever shed countless pounds, stay healthy, and add many years to your life”… A lady doctor from Arizona has blown the lid off the best-kept secret in weight loss, and this has the whole diet food and drug industries [...]
Incision-Free Weight Loss Surgery Performed at New York Presbyterian Hospital
The first patient in the New York City area received incision free surgery for obesity as part of the ongoing multicenter TOGA Pivotal Trial at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
Drs. Marc Bessler and Daniel Davis performed the TOGA Procedure (for “transoral gastroplasty”), which, like other obesity procedures, is designed to alter the patient’s stomach anatomy [...]
“Sick Fat” Tissue And Obesity
A Temple University study finds fat in obese patients is “sick” when compared to fat in lean patients.
When our bodies don’t work properly, we say we’re sick. A study published in the September issue of Diabetes finds that the same could be said for fat tissue found in obese patients. The cells in their fat [...]
