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Timing of Meals Linked to Fatty Liver

Distributing calories during the day could reduce NAFLD risk

Weight Gain In When School's Out

Out-of-school factors appear to drive kids' overweight and obesity

How Sweet: Sugar Industry Made Fat the Villain

Harvard researchers received sugar industry money to write a NEJMreview

Poet and Physician: A Chat With John Coulehan, MD

Coulehan wears three different hats: physician, ethicist, and poet

LEADER Trial Leads the Pack at ADA

But meeting in New Orleans will also feature thousands of new papers

Preventing Weight Gain in Special Needs Patients

Understanding risks, finding ways to cope

Obesity Is a Chronic Disease, Say New Guidelines

AACE's evidence-based guidelines aims to help physicians

Obesity Guidelines Headline AACE 2016

First such guidelines in 25 year history

Early, Personalized Vit D Needed After Bariatric Surgery

Most patients go into surgery malnourished

Saxagliptin, Alogliptin Linked to Heart Failure, FDA Warns

Decision comes 1 year after FDA advisory committee vote

Obesity Linked to Delayed Puberty in Boys

But being overweight tied with earlier pubertal development

Phosphorus Pills Bring Weight Loss in Trial

Waist size shrinks more than an inch after 12 weeks

Early Weight Loss With Saxenda Predicts More

Conversely, initial nonresponse is typically maintained

Weight-Loss Surgery a Safe Option for Mildly Obese With T2D

Patients faced a 4.2% complication rate in 30 days

FDA Presses Pause on Novel Testosterone Product

Gives FDA chance to "back away from the circus," says sponsor's CEO

NHANES Data: Pseudoscience?

Data used to form guidelines 'inadmissible' and are wildly inaccurate, says researcher.

Lifestyle Medicine: Dreaming of the Gym-Clinic Hybrid

Nadolsky brothers interview med student who wants to open combined gym and clinic practice

Does This Make Me Fat, Or Is It My Genes?

A pair of married Harvard docs debate the causes of the obesity epidemic

GI Events Do Not Explain Weight Loss With Saxenda

No difference in weight loss between patients who had nausea and vomiting with diet drug, and those who didn't.

Op-Ed: Penn Jillette's Weight Loss Wasn't Magic

The magician recently lost 105 pounds, but he may not be a role model.

Slippery Slope: Diet Drugs No Help for Heart

In another edition of the Slippery Slope series examining use of surrogate endpoints in drug approvals, 51成人动漫 and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel find diet drugs are approved without solid evidence of benefits, but with hints of harm.

Slippery Slope: $$ in, Diet Drugs Out, How Five Drugs Came to Market

Makers of diet drugs spent more than $60 million on payments to doctors, organized medicine, and lobbyists to get their drugs approved.

What the Evidence Really Says About PUFAs

Another look at the supposed benefits of corn oil.

Excerpt From 'The Secret Language of Doctors'

ED doc Brian Goldman investigates slang to "crack code of hospital culture."

Knee Surgery Linked to Higher OA Risk

Can meniscus repairs actually worsen joint damage?

Are There Fewer 'Tasty' Meals After Bariatric Surgery?

Taste buds may be diminished by weight-loss surgery.

Friday Feedback: Zero-Tolerance Employment Smoking Bans?

Should hospitals, schools, and companies refuse to hire smokers for teachers and healthcare providers?

'Bulletproof' Coffee May Hike Lipids

LAS VEGAS -- Spiking coffee with butter and coconut oil -- a concoction known as "bulletproof coffee" -- may be boosting hyperlipidemia in otherwise healthy patients, researchers said here.

Dieting Shrinks Liver, Eases Gall Bladder Surgery

CHICAGO -- A 2-week-long restrictive diet appears to shrink obese patients鈥� livers enough to make gall bladder laparoscopic surgery quicker and easier, researchers reported here.

Forget Glucometers, Use Voodoo Dolls Instead: That's Improbable!

A weekly report from our friends at Improbable Research.

Higher BMI May Be Better for Older Adults

Adults over 65 at the high end of the healthy body mass index range were at lower risk of mortality, and those at the low end were at highest risk, according to a recent meta-analysis.

Colonoscopies: The Longer the Better

Polyp and adenoma detection rates were highest when the colonoscopy withdrawal time was 9 minutes long, near the upper limit of the recommended 6 to 10 minutes withdrawal time, researchers found.

Combo Drug Qsymia Tops for Weight Loss

Overweight people who took the phentermine/topiramate combination diet drug Qsymia lost more weight than people taking a placebo or either drug alone in an industry-funded study.

AMA House Votes Against Council, Calls Obesity a Disease

CHICAGO -- Obesity should be called a disease and not simply a condition, the American Medical Association's policy-making House of Delegates voted on Tuesday, ignoring a recommendation by one of its own councils.

Obesity Not a Disease, AMA Council Says

CHICAGO -- Obesity is hard to define and diagnose, and partly because of that is not a disease, an American Medical Association council said in a report issued here Monday.

Cardio Notes: Sex Improves with Stenting

Opening the arteries of those with stable coronary disease also opens the door to an improved sex life. Also this week, bariatric surgery helps remodel the heart.

Playing Sports Helps Teens Fight Fat

Team sports may fight weight problems better than other forms of exercise among high schoolers, researchers found.

DSM-5: What's In, What's Out

PHILADELPHIA -- Reports here provided what may be the last public update on DSM-5, the next edition of American psychiatry's diagnostic guide, before it is formally released in May 2013.

Diabetes Expert Disses Weight-Loss Programs

WASHINGTON -- Community-based weight-loss programs have not been shown to be effective at reducing the incidence of diabetes, so implementing a national program would likely be money down the drain, a diabetes expert said at a symposium on Tuesday.

Fructose No Substitute for Glucose in Diabetes

NEW YORK -- Although it negates the dumping of glucose directly into the bloodstream, fructose may not be the choice sweetener for diabetics, researchers said here.

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