Last month the Obesity Society held its 28th Annual Scientific Meeting, Obesity 2010, in San Diego. A number of prominent researchers, physicians, advocates, and business leaders...
Category: Obesity
Obesity, a condition linked to heart disease and diabetes, now appears to be associated with another health problem, but one that affects men only - low testosterone levels. A new study conducted by University at Buffalo and published online ahead of print in the journal Diabetes Care, showed that 40 percent of obese participants...
Call me late to the game, this book came out last year, but I just read Dr. David Kessler's The End of Overeating, Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. Wow! If you haven't read it, you should. It's never too late to tell someone about a good book.
I can no longer look at food as anything but salt loaded on fat loaded on sugar.
Scientists from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney Australia have shown for the first time that even modest weight loss reverses many of the damaging changes often seen in the immune cells of obese people, particularly in those with Type 2 diabetes...
Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced that following positive phase 2 study results in a new obesity treatment, they will advance towards phase 3 development of a combination treatment for obesity which includes pramlintide (an analog of the natural hormone amylin) and metreleptin (an analog of the natural hormone leptin)...