Most dietary programs are designed to help people achieve weight loss or adhere to U.S. nutrition guidelines, which currently make no mention of ultra-processed foods (UPFs). UPFs—like chips or candy—are the mass-produced, packaged products that contain little or no naturally occurring foods. Eating UPFs is strongly associated with increased risk of diseases and early death.
France warned Wednesday against dietary supplements promising weight loss that use the tropical plant Garcinia cambogia after a range of rare but serious side effects including one death were reported.
Bariatric surgery is safe and induces substantial weight loss that reduces the need for diabetes medications, a Monash University and University of Sydney-led Australian study has found.
Mass General Brigham researchers found that total weight loss did not increase for patients who took semaglutide before having weight-loss surgery, suggesting that a surgery-first strategy could lead to better outcomes.
People living in rural areas are at greater risk for obesity than the general population, and they often have limited access to healthy, affordable food, physical activity facilities, public transportation, and health care institutions. Weight loss interventions are more successful with support from a dietitian, but many rural residents do not have preventive care providers nearby.
