Researchers from the Turku PET Centre and Technical University of Munich have discovered a new mechanism controlling sat…
Obesity
Why You Lose Weight on a Ketogenic Diet
A ketogenic diet can lead to seemingly effortless weight loss, without caloric restriction or hunger, which is one of th…
The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model: A Different Approach to the Obesity Crisis
It’s the trillion dollar question: What causes obesity?
Most people will tell you it’s a simple energy imbalance. In oth…
Beyond BMI: How to More Accurately Assess Metabolic Health
Body Mass Index (BMI) is the standard metric for determining if someone is a healthy weight. BMI is calculated as weight…
Dr. Fung: Why Obesity and Diabetes Increase Cancer Risk
Dr. Jason Fung is widely known as an advocate for the technique of intermittent fasting in patients hoping to reverse or…
Insulin Treatment is Associated with Increased Mortality in People with Type 2 Diabetes and Covid-19
A new study in Cell Metabolism has suggested that patients with COVID-19 and Type 2 diabetes that received insulin treat…
What is Leptin? And How it May Impact Covid-19 Risk Factors
You May Be Leptin-Resistant. Here’s Why It’s Important.
In the diabetes world, leptin doesn’t get nearly the attention t…
Boris Johnson on Obesity and Covid-19: “I was too fat”
It took Covid-19—and a brush with death—to turn Boris Johnson into one of the world’s foremost anti-obesity advocates.
J…
Does BMI Really Matter?
Body Mass Index, the one number that nearly everyone uses to categorize overweight and obesity, is pretty much garbage.
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How Metabolic Syndrome Snuck Up on America
One of the unforeseen lessons of the coronavirus pandemic is how vulnerable our poor metabolic health makes us. Even fro…
