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12 Jul
A new study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society finds 40% of cancer cases and about half of all cancer deaths are caused by potentially modifiable risk factors.
07 Sep
Obesity-related deaths from heart disease tripled between 1999 and 2020, according to new research. Black women had the highest rates than all others in the study.
Type 2 diabetes increased by nearly 20% in the United States between 2012 and 2022, with age, race, income level, obesity and lack of exercise all playing a role in the metabolic disease’s spread, a new study reports.
“Diabetes is increasing day ...
Tirzepatide, the blockbuster GLP-1 medicine known as Mounjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for weight loss, cut the odds that an obese, prediabetic person will develop diabetes by 94%, a new trial shows.
The three-year-long trial, funded by the drugs' maker, Eli Lilly, also found "sustained ...
"Stealth" foods are sneaking saturated fat and added sugars into even the strictest diets, a new study shows.
Most saturated fats and added sugars come from well-known sources – soft drinks, cheese, pizza, ice cream, cakes and pies.
But even supposedly healthy foods like chicken brea...
Americans continue to rank dead last in life expectancy among English-speaking countries, a new study finds.
People in the United States more often fall prey at younger ages to accidental deaths, homicides and chronic diseases, researchers reported Aug. 13 in the BMJ Open journal.
On the other hand, Australians had t...
Kids and teens around the world are consuming more sugary drinks, increasing their risk of future health problems, a new study finds.
Young people consumed nearly 23% more sugar-sweetened beverages in 2018 compared to 1990, according to the report publis...
People can offset hours spent sitting around with minutes of active exercise each week, a new study claims.
Folks who are sedentary for eight or more hours daily can lower their overall risk of death – and especially their risk of dying from heart disease...
New research has added two conditions to the list of 12 risk factors that boost the chances of a dementia diagnosis.
The good news? You can guard against the development of both and researchers offer advice on exactly how to do that.
In a study published Wednesday in
Finding yourself packing on the pounds around your waist and arms? If so, you might be at heightened risk for neurological illnesses like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, new research suggests.
There was one other physical characteristic that lowered the odds, however: muscle strength. Stronger ...
Obese kids infected with dengue are significantly more likely to suffer severe illness requiring hospitalization, a new study warns.
A new analysis of nearly 5,000 dengue-infected Sri Lankan children found that weight plays a powerful role in how sick the mosquito-borne virus can make a kid.
Kids with higher BMIs had higher hospitalization rates than those children who weighed less,...
Consistently bad sleep is linked to a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study shows.
Both too little and too much sleep is tied to diabetes risk, and swinging wildly between the two patterns of poor sleep reflects the most risk, researchers repo...
Pudgy with a purpose: Fat cats could help humans better understand the way gut bacteria influences conditions like obesity and type 2 diabetes, a new study claims.
Food-related changes in obese cats’ gut microbiome have striking similarities to the way diet affects the gut of humans, researchers reported recently in the journal
In yet another finding that touts the health benefits of wildly popular weight-loss medications like Wegovy and Ozempic, scientists report that taking the drugs may help reduce the risk of some cancers.
In a study published July 5 in JAMA Network Open, researchers found people with type 2...
Researchers have identified a gene that can trigger obesity, behavior problems and postpartum depression when missing or damaged.
The finding could lead to new treatments for postpartum depression and overeating: The study in mice suggests the so-called "love hormone" -- oxytocin -- may ease ...
Specific types of gut bacteria appear to be linked to compulsive eating, a new study reports.
Researchers found that one type of gut bacteria -- the Proteobacteria family -- is abundant in people and mice with an addiction to food.
Other types of gut bacteria are decreased in food-addicted people and mice, including Blautia bacteria and bacteria belonging to the
Low-birth-weight newborns have a higher risk of health complications if they become obese as children, a new study has found.
Obese children who were low-birth-weight babies have a higher risk of insulin resistance, fatty liver and other health problems, researchers found.
The study "supports the theory that individuals who were born low birth weight, or who are genetically predispo...
Losing weight can protect you against cancers related to obesity, a new study finds.
Obesity has been linked to higher risk of at least 13 types of cancer, researchers said. This is largely due to excess levels of hormones like estrogen and insulin.
But study results show that dropping pounds can improve a person's odds against developing these cancers, including
The average American diet has only improved modestly over the past two decades, despite tons of research tying unhealthy food to obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease, a new study finds.
The percentage of U.S. adults with a poor diet decreased from 49% to 37% between 1999 and 2020, based on data fro...
Taking a cutting-edge weight-loss drug could help extremely obese patients drop enough pounds to be eligible for bariatric surgery, a new study shows.
Patients with extreme obesity -- a BMI of 70 or more -- are at higher risk of complications from surgery compared to people who weigh less.
Weight loss prior to surgery can lower that risk, but up to now nothing's been able to help pa...
Folks trying to control their blood sugar levels might do best to work out in the evening, a new study suggests.
Exercise performed between 6 p.m. and midnight appeared to be better at controlling blood sugar levels all day long, according to results published June 10 in the journal Obesity.
This was partic...
It's tempting to binge-watch TV, but yet another study finds that when it comes to healthy aging, the less time on your sofa, the better.
The study looked at 20 years of data on more than 45,000 people taking part in the Nurses' Health Study. All were at least age 50 in 1992 and free of chronic disease when they entered the study.
Researchers tracked lifestyle habits like time sitti...
An experimental 'supercharged' form of popular GLP-1 weight-loss meds could help ease fatty liver disease, a new trial suggests.
The drug under development, survodutide, helped up to 83% of patients gain real improvements in markers of fatty liver disease, a widespread and potentially lethal condition often linked to obesity.
Right now, there's only one drug,
Despite recent concerns that taking Ozempic, Wegovy or other GLP-1 medications might be unsafe before a surgery, a new review has uncovered no such danger.
The issue arose because weight-loss drugs slow gastric emptying. The thought was that food might linger in the stomach so patients might be at higher risk of aspirating food particles and choking while under anesthesia.
But a ne...
Ozempic and Wegovy appear to improve people's sensitivity to tastes, potentially lowering their desire for sweets, a new study suggests.
The active ingredient in the weight-loss medications, semaglutide, also appears to affect the way that the tongue and brain respond to sweet tastes, researchers ...
Ozempic provides a wide variety of health benefits for people with kidney disease and type 2 diabetes, a major clinical trial has found.
The drug significantly reduces the risk of severe kidney events, heart problems and death from any cause in patients who have both conditions, researchers found....
Three months after starting one of the new GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, more than a quarter of patients have already quit the medications, and by a year from first use more than a third have stopped, new research shows.
Reasons for quitting Wegovy, Ozempic or similar drugs may include cost or gastrointestinal side effects, said a team led by U...
The number of American teens and young adults who've been prescribed one of the new GLP-1 weight-loss drugs soared nearly seven-fold between 2020 and 2023, a new report finds.
That's compared to an overall decline of about 3% in young Americans' use of other types of prescription meds.
But how safe are drugs like Ozempic,
You've watched others shed pounds in a matter of weeks after taking one of the new blockbuster weight-loss drugs, so you decide to try one of the medications yourself, only to discover the needle on your bathroom scale barely budges.
Why? New research presented Monday at the Digestive Disease Week conference in Washington, D.C., suggests genes might be at play.
Some patients will l...
The smell of food is appetizing when you're hungry. At the same time, it can be a turnoff if you're full.
That's due to the interaction between two different parts of the brain involving sense of smell and behavior motivation, a new study finds.
And it could be why some people can't easily stop eating wh...
A competitive game with a potential cash reward appeared to help overweight British men lose weight, researchers report.
The incentive was winning the "Game of Stones" -- a stone is a British measurement of body weight equal to 14 pounds -- and pocketing the equivalent of just over $500 in American dollars if the man achieved weight-loss goals.
Weight loss was more successful among ...
Women who smoke during pregnancy run a higher risk of their kids becoming overweight or obese, and researchers now think they know one reason why.
Children born of moms who smoked while expecting tend to have gut bacteria that is significantly different from that of kids whose moms didn't light up, scientists reported recently in the journal
"Skinny"fat cells might actually make it harder to lose weight and easier to pack on extra pounds, a new study says.
Researchers say it's possible to predict if someone's going to gain weight based solely on the size of their fat cells.
People with large fat cells tend to lose weight over time, and those with small fat cells tend to gain weight, according to a Swedish study schedule...
About 1 in 8 U.S. adults (12%) have tried a weight-loss drug like Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound or Mounjaro, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll says.
About 6% are taking one right now, the poll found.
Most patients say they use the drugs (61%) to treat a chronic condition like diabetes or heart disease, ...
Colon cancer steadily increased among young people in the United States over the past two decades, with tweens enduring the most dramatic leap in cancer rates, a new study says.
The rate of colon cancer grew 500% among kids 10 to 14 between 1999 and 2020, researchers will report...
An experimental procedure could reduce levels of a hunger-triggering hormone by burning part of a person's stomach lining, a new study reports.
In the procedure, doctors snake a tube down the patient's throat with a tiny device that singes the lining of the upper portion of the stomach, also called the gastric fundus.
That's the part of the stomach that produces ghrelin, the primary...
Nine of 10 American adults are in the early, middle or late stages of a syndrome that leads to heart disease, a new report finds, and almost 10% have the disease already.
"Poor cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic health is widespread among the U.S. population," concludes a team led by
School lunches will soon contain less added sugars and salt under new nutrition standards announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday.
"We all share the goal of helping children reach their full potential,"Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a news release announcing the changes. "Like teachers, classroom...
A head-to-head trial of obese, pre-diabetic people who ate the same amount of daily calories -- with one group following a fasting schedule and the other eating freely -- found no difference in weight loss or other health indicators.
So, despite the fact that fasting diets are all the rage, if you simply cut your daily caloric intake,
Wegovy, Ozempic and other drugs known as GLP-1 analogues have become wildly popular for controlling diabetes and helping folks lose weight.
There were concerns that longer term use of the drugs might raise users' odds for thyroid cancer, but a Swedish study of more than 435,000 people finds no evidence to support that notion.
"Many people take these medicines, so it is important t...
Obese folks are less likely to benefit from a nerve-stimulation treatment for sleep apnea that's recently been made available to them, a new study reports.
The treatment is likely to be 75% less effective among obese people with BMIs of 32 to 35, compa...
Two newly discovered genetic variations can have a powerful effect on a person's risk for obesity, a new report says.
Variants in the gene BSN, also known as Bassoon, can increase risk of obesity as much as sixfold, researchers report April 4 in the journal Nature Genetics.
These variants affect about 1 in every 6,500...
Research into germs that travel through the human digestive tract shows that some may promote obesity while others might help prevent it.
Not only that, but those microbes may act differently in men versus women, the same study found.
"Our findings reveal how an imbalance in distinct bacterial groups are likely to play an important role in the onset and development of
The seeds of high blood pressure in adulthood might be sown in youth, a new study suggests.
Children and teenagers with excess weight were more likely to have high blood pressure in middle age, researchers report.
In fact, there's a linear r...
People taking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy need to drop them in the days or weeks prior to surgery, a new study warns.
Folks on one of these drugs -- known as GLP-1 receptor agonists -- have a 33% higher risk of developing pneumonia by breathing in their own vomit during surgery, researche...
Children who are obese face double the odds of developing multiple sclerosis later in life, a new study warns.
The overall odds for any one child to develop the neurodegenerative illness remains very low. However, the Swedish researchers believe the link could help explain rising rates of MS.
"There are several studies showing that MS has increased over several decades and obesity ...
Some folks struggling with obesity appear to be hampered by their own genes when it comes to working off those extra pounds, a new study finds.
People with a higher genetic risk of obesity have to exercise more to avoid becoming unhealthily heavy, researchers discovered.
"G...
WEDNESDAY, March 20, 2024 -- Boys who drink lots of sugary soda and fruit juice could be more likely to develop type 2 diabetes later in life, a new study has found.
Each daily 8-ounce serving of sugary drinks during a boy's childhood is associated with a 34% increase ...
The blockbuster weight-loss medication Zepbound (tirzepatide) appears to help folks quickly shed pounds regardless of how overweight they are, or how long they've lived being overweight or obese.
Those are the findings of two separate analyses of a major trial of the injected drug that was funded by maker Eli Lilly.
"Regardless of b...
Wegovy (semaglutide), the weight-loss version of blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic, was approved on Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help prevent heart attack, stroke and heart death.
"Wegovy is now the first weight-loss medication to also be approved to help prevent life-threatening cardiovascular events in adults with cardiovascular disease and either obesity or overwe...
Folks worried about becoming flabby in middle age should check out what their parents looked like when they were that age, a new study says.
People are six times more likely to become obese in middle age if both their parents were chubby during that time of their lives, according to research to be present...
Children with "lazy eye"are more likely to become adults facing an array of serious health problems, a new study warns.
Kids diagnosed with amblyopia are more likely to develop high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes as adults, researchers ...