Category: Obesity

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The food pyramid was supposed to visually demonstrate how best to nourish our bodies, but instead it vilified many fats and precipitated a wholesale shift to carbohydrates, many of them refined. And then the obesity epidemic began. That’s the reconstruction …

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People who were obese who had bariatric surgery developed about half the number of cancers ten years later than did obese people who didn’t have the surgery, a recent study found. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins …

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Obesity is known to increase cancer risk, so if someone who is very overweight has bariatric surgery, does their risk for cancer decline? Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins describes a new study that examines this question. …

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A drug that causes fat to be metabolized, and in particular around organs like the heart where fat is especially dangerous, has been shown to work well in male mice, research by David Kass, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins, and …

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A type of mouse used to study obesity and heart problems has demonstrated the efficacy of an existing medicine to help them lose weight, and in the places where it matters most, around organs like the heart. That’s according to …

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