Category Archives: Weight loss
- August 19, 2010
- Orexigen® Therapeutics COR-BMOD Study Published In The Journal Obesity
Orexigen® Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OREX) announced the online publication of results from its COR-BMOD trial of Contrave® (naltrexone SR/bupropion SR) in the journal Obesity. The COR-BMOD trial evaluated intensive behavior modification (BMOD) plus Contrave32 (32mg naltrexone sustained release (SR)/360mg bupropion SR) compared to BMOD plus placebo, in 793 overweight or obese patients. The addition of [...]
- August 19, 2010
- Improving Weight Loss Success By Putting Focus On Immediate Health Benefits
Most weight loss programs try to motivate individuals with warnings of the long-term health consequences of obesity: increased risk for cancer, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and asthma. New research suggests the immediate health benefits – such as reduced pain – may be the most effective motivator for helping obese individuals shed extra weight and commit [...]
- August 19, 2010
- Why Is Obesity So Prevalent, And What Can We Do To Combat It?
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2009, no state had met a target of reducing obesity prevalence among adults to 15 percent. Why is obesity so prevalent in America? And what can we do to combat the problem? Quattrin, who is leading a more than $2.5 million study to [...]
- August 19, 2010
- Alabama’s Obesity Prevalence Hits 31 Percent
Alabama had an overall self-reported obesity level of 31 percent for adults. The obesity epidemic affects every state, according to a new CDC report. No state met the country’s Healthy People 2010 goal to lower obesity to 15 percent.
New data show that nine states had an obesity rate of 30 percent or higher in 2009 [...]
- August 18, 2010
- College Is A Crucial Time To Develop Habits That Prevent Weight Gain And Protect Against Cancer, Say Experts
The everyday choices kids make when they go away to college establish the patterns they’ll follow for the rest of their lives, experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research said today. Setting healthy patterns can help them in the short-term – and help lower their lifetime risk of cancer and other diseases later in [...]
- August 18, 2010
- The Animal Kingdom’s Couch Potatoes
Pass the chips and hand over the remote.
In a study involving the first-ever daily energy expenditure measurements in apes, a researcher from Washington University in St. Louis and his team have determined that orangutans living in a large indoor/outdoor habitat used less energy, relative to body mass, than nearly any eutherian mammal ever measured, including [...]
- August 18, 2010
- Larger Waist Associated With Greater Risk Of Death
Individuals with a large waist circumference appear to have a greater risk of dying from any cause over a nine-year period, according to a report in the August 9/23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Having a large waist circumference has previously been associated with inflammation, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, [...]
- August 18, 2010
- EZVille, Ltd. Issues A Voluntary Nationwide Recall Of Solo Slim® Found To Contain An Undeclared Drug Ingredient
EZVille, Ltd. of Ronkonkoma, NY, has been informed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that FDA lab analysis of Solo Slim® distributed by the company was found to contain an undeclared drug ingredient. Solo Slim® was found to contain Didesmethyl Sibutramine. Sibutramine is an FDA-approved drug used as an appetite suppressant for weight loss. [...]
- August 15, 2010
- Latest Increase In US Obesity Rate Will Mean More Cancers, Experts Warn
According to just-released figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2.4 million more Americans became obese between 2007 and 2009. Approximately 26.7 percent of the US adult population, or 72.5 million people, are now obese. Experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) said today that this increase may well result in [...]
- August 15, 2010
- Loss Of Quality-Adjusted Life Years Due To Obesity More Than Doubles For US Adults From 1993-2008
Although the prevalence of obesity and obesity-attributable deaths has steadily increased, the resultant burden of disease associated with obesity has not been well understood. A new study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine indicates that Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) lost to U.S. adults due to morbidity and mortality from [...]
