Top Research Papers on Weight Loss

This narrative review presents the findings from intervention studies on the effects of sleep deprivation on eating habits, metabolic rate, and the hormones regulating metabolism, and discusses their relevance to weight loss efforts.

A comparison with the theory-driven children model outlined research gaps and differences between predictors for adults and children providing further direction of research.

This study identifies criteria for intervention in patients suffering weight regain or inadequate weight loss after MBS and demonstrates that standardized identification and referral for treatment results in modest weight loss.

Financial incentives can effectively help to weight loss and maintenance of weight, and improve lipid profiles; blood sugar and liver enzymes.

The activity and toxicity of dietary supplements for weight control are summarized to clarify their potentiality and adverse reactions and supplements containing postbiotic moieties are of particular interest.

Semaglutide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist, was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration for chronic weight management in adults with obesity or who are overweight and was associated with significantly greater weight loss compared to placebo.

This Viewpoint explores the effects of weight loss achieved through GLP-1–based antiobesity medications on weight regain, fat-free mass, and skeletal muscle mass in people with obesity.

In 4 RCTs, patients were treated for weight loss with 2.4 mg of subcutaneous SGT weekly and lifestyle interventions (counseling, diet, and physical activity) and the AEs were similar between doses.

Future studies should explore the ability of people with overweight/obesity to act upon motives for long-term weight management, as well as the impact of shifting through motives on the magnitude of maintenance.

A male case who was admitted for a clinical picture correlated with alarming high calcium levels was actually a paraneoplastic syndrome due to RC, and a normalization of calcium and PTH levels was found immediately after surgery.

This book examines the complex ways in which body weight now defines many aspects of daily US life and highlights the work people are willing to do to meet difficult-to-achieve social expectations.

It is demonstrated that internal, social, and environmental factors all influence weight loss success, as well as the acceptability of the weight loss intervention.

This study aimed to assess the effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on weight loss, physical activity, and sleep in adults with overweight or obesity participating in a 39‐week weight‐loss intervention.

Background: A cross-sectional study aimed to determine the factors association with repeated weight loss attempts, and weight loss maintenance. Methods: The study was conducted in the main public hospitals in Benghazi, Libya. A total sample of 300 participants who suffered from weight gain or/ obesity and had a history of trying of weight loss. The data were collected by using a questionnaire that include all the factors that may affect the weight loss process such as social, psychological, health, factors related to diet , and daily behavior factors. Results: The majority of participants 78% ...

A novel dietary weight‐loss program was developed to assist participants in achieving sustainable diet changes by building knowledge and skills in food self‐selection and a large variation was observed in outcome among participants.

There is no single best strategy for weight management, and strategies for weight loss and its maintenance should be individualized, and healthcare providers must choose the best strategy based on patient preferences.

The evidence supports the recommendations for intakes of protein above the current guidelines of 0.8 g/kg body weight/d for the healthy elderly population to also be incorporated into the dietary prescription for weight management in this age group.

Different mechanisms of anti-obesity action, associated with the enzymes, energy expenditure, adipocyte differentiation, lipid metabolism, gut microbiota and anti-inflammatory potential of curcumin are summarized.

Setting higher weight loss goals and being motivated by health or fitness were associated with greater weight loss and lower likelihood of dropout, and engagement was an independent predictor of weight loss but not a mediator of the effect of goal setting.

The TWL diet completely prevented loss of lean body mass (LBM) in dogs compared with baseline and reduced pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines in overweight and obese dogs during weight loss.

Emphasizing the impact of weight on daily functioning and quality of life, and increasing awareness of personal weight status and health consequences, may increase weight loss initiation and participation in weight loss programs among Black men and women in committed relationships.

It is suggested that decreases in circulating PCs and SMs during weight loss and the subsequent weight loss maintenance period may decrease the cardiovascular risk through impacting TChol and LDL-C.

Health professionals with weight loss within the prior 2 years had a significantly higher risk of cancer during the subsequent 12 months compared with those without recent weight loss.

The invention relates to the field of medicine and is used to reduce excess body weight by placing the intragastric stent into the stomach and its extraction therefrom is not required the use of general anesthesia, and when the intrusion in the stomach is not formed bedsores.

All three clinical trials demonstrated that semaglutide (injected or oral) has superior efficacy compared with placebo and other antidiabetic medications in weight reduction, which led to Food and Drug Administration approval of Wegovy (semaglutides) for weight loss.

The prevalence of obesity and related disorders has been growing at an alarming rate in both wealthy and middle-low-income countries, according to the World Health Organization.

This review explores the complex interplay between obesity and AF, specifically highlighting the reversible nature of obesity-induced cardiac remodeling with weight loss and several insights from weight management offer promising strategies for AF prevention and management.

Strategies to support safer practices include minimal competition weight classification based on preseason body composition, reductions in the period between weigh-in and competition, and prohibition of unhealthy weight loss techniques.

This study tested whether initial weight change (WC), self‐weighing, and adherence to the expected WC trajectory predict longer‐term WC in an underserved primary‐care population with obesity.

The results suggest that aerobic exercise training at least 150 minutes per week at moderate intensity or higher may be needed to achieve clinically important reductions in waist circumference and measures of body fat.

A comprehensive web-based program such as HWC is a potential addition to the repertoire of obesity management in a clinical setting, and weight loss success was otherwise independent of baseline characteristics.

Left ventricular assist device in cognitive impairment: A favorable destination despite poor prognosis despite poor prognosis?

This study demonstrated low adherence of children and their parents to obesity treatment and administration of liraglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist (Saxenda) can be the most promising.

Clinically significant weight loss via caloric restriction and aerobic exercise improved HRV markers of cardiac vagal modulation and commonly prescribed exercise volumes contribute to maintenance of parasympathetic modulation following medical weight loss programming and exercise.

Eating each meal (i.e., breakfast, lunch, and dinner) at a certain time every day may increase weight loss success and consuming the same amount of calories at each meal may help weight Loss success.

The aim of this study was to examine the association between weight self‐stigma and weight loss and to investigate the role of self-stigma in weight loss intervention.

This study examined compliance and progress factors associated with weight loss and maintenance, individual patterns of weight trends following weight loss, and impact of early weight loss on longer-term weight change; increased health coaching attendance was associated with greater weight loss.

A family of loss functions is proposed, which for the first time introduces the leverage parameter $\beta$ to consider the trade-off between losses on partial labels and non-partial ones and derives a generalized result of risk consistency for the LW loss in learning from partial labels.

It is suggested that while semaglutide is effective for weight loss, it is not economically viable over the long term compared with ESG, which remains a cost-saving alternative for this patient population.

Substantial interindividual variability in response to behavioral weight loss interventions remains a critical challenge in obesity treatment and improved understanding of the complex factors that contribute to this variability may improve obesity treatment outcomes.

Practical guidance is provided to assist cardiologists in developing and implementing treatment plans, which may allow optimal weight management while maximizing CV benefits and minimizing side effects to improve the overall well-being of people with CV disease.

WL following the first month of treatment predicted 12- and 18-month WL success regardless of intervention sequence; however, even early slow responders achieved significant WL during treatment, suggesting further research is needed to support effective WL maintenance for people with prediabetes.

With the social and economic development in China, weight-loss advertisements have become an essential part of people’s daily life and the weight-loss fashion can be seen everywhere. Both the advertisements and fashion fall into the category of culture and thus there exist some close relationships between them. Weight-loss advertisements create and guide the weight-loss fashion, and exert great influence on its development. This paper begins with some background information and then tries to explain the relationships between weight-loss advertisements and the weight-loss fashion, the harmfulne...

Insight is sought on unanswered questions over how weight loss is achieved following bariatric surgery which may eventually lead to safer, nonsurgical weight-loss interventions or combinations of medications with surgery.

A weight loss program with healthy Diet Tips and Tricks for over weight individuals to help them to lose weight normally and with confidence.

The utility of an intervention strategy that first identifies potential obstacles to weight loss and then specifically modifies these problem areas using personalized interventions within a generic cognitive-behavioral weight loss program is demonstrated.

The present invention relates to a device for reducing weight in an individual that comprises a shortcircuiting switch being adapted to short-circuit the electrodes.

Testing the theory with 128 patients in a 6-month, very-low-calorie weight-loss program confirmed the predictions that participants whose motivation for weight loss was more autonomous would attend the program more regularly, lose more weight during the program, and evidence greater maintained weight loss at follow-up.

A basic workup should be performed before attributing the loss to mental health, and attempts to increase caloric intake are insufficient, and an eating disorder is not suspected, refer the patient to a registered dietitian and/or a gastroenterologist.

Obesity is best managed by a multidisciplinary clinical team that integrates diet, exercise, and pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery is needed to manage T2D and obesity in select patients.