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New study links long-term artificial sweetener intake to increased body fat adipose tissue volume
Over 20 years, the research team examined people's regular dietary intake, paying particular attention to non-nutritive sweeteners commonly found in artificial sweeteners.
BMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management. An obesity medicine physician explains
On June 14, 2023, the American Medical Association adopted a new policy, calling on doctors to deemphasize the role of body mass index, or BMI, in clinical practice.
Employees with obesity may have higher loss of work productivity than those with normal weight
People with obesity may have lower work productivity due to increased risk of illness, contributing to increased costs for employers, according to industry-supported research being presented Saturday at ENDO 2023, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting, in Chicago, Ill.
Cardiovascular disease with obesity associated with more illness, death and medical costs than obesity alone
Adults at high cardiovascular risk and living with overweight or obesity experience a higher number of cardiovascular events (such as heart attack and stroke), are at greater risk of dying prematurely
Too few primary care doctors address obesity with their patients, highlighting need for weight loss tool
After finding that few to no clinicians provided weight management care, researchers developed a weight loss tool called PATHWEIGH. This tool was designed to remove clinician barriers in providing patient care that addressed weight.