Obesity
News
Continuous Glucose Monitors for All? Opinions Remain Mixed
“For now, efforts should be focused on making CGMs available to patients who will clearly benefit — ie, people with diabetes, especially those who...
Conference Coverage
Coming Soon: A New Disease Definition, ‘Clinical Obesity’
“I think it’ll help explain and move medicine as a whole in a direction to a greater understanding of obesity actually being a disease, how to...
Commentary
Lifestyle Medicine Trends to Keep an Eye On
“What we truly need is a patient-centered approach that restores health by addressing not just diagnoses but also the physical, emotional, and...
News
Humans and Carbs: A Complicated 800,000-Year Relationship
On one hand, the human body needs and craves carbs to function but on the other hand, the modern glut of nutritionally barren carbs in not healthy...
Commentary
Is CGM the New CBT?
Continuous glucose monitoring can help patients through a “carrot and stick” approach to dieting.
News
Can Weight Loss Drugs Also Treat Addiction?
The study highlights the importance of interdisciplinary research in understanding the neurobiological links between metabolic disorders and...
Opinion
Ghost Fat: The Unseen Consequences of Weight Loss
The body dissatisfaction of some people who lose weight may be long-standing, predating the weight loss, or may be new because weight loss has...
Commentary
Five Essential Nutrients for Patients on GLP-1s
Regularly monitoring patients on GLP-1 RAs through blood work to check vitamin levels and body composition analysis can be helpful in assessing...
News
Controlling Six Risk Factors Can Combat CKD in Obesity
Optimal management of blood pressure, A1c levels, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), albuminuria, smoking, and physical activity may...
News
GI-Targeted Bitter Hop Extract Curbs Hunger, Food Cravings
Both the high-dose and low-dose treatment groups experienced a significant reduction in appetite.