It’s inevitable. Eventually, with a weight loss goal of more than a few pounds, the dieter hits a plateau. The body seems to balk at more weight loss. It even happens with GLP-1 drugs, like semaglutide (Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Zepbound). That doesn’t mean treatment is a failure. You can work with your doctor to get past your plateau. It may ...

HOUSTON — Weight loss surgery can sound extreme for a child. However, researchers have found that such a procedure can have long-lasting benefits as they reach adulthood. Researchers in Texas found that children and young adults under 22 who underwent bariatric surgery for severe obesity managed to keep the weight off over the next decade. In one of the longest ...

NUTHETAL, Germany — Metformin is one of the most common and wildly used drugs by people with diabetes and prediabetes. However, a concerning new study finds taking metformin during pregnancy may impact the child’s long-term brain development. German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE) researchers delved deep into the effects of metformin, an antidiabetic medication that is increasingly being prescribed ...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Could a “dad bod” lead to dementia? It’s common to see a bit more fat around the waistline during middle age, but researchers from Rutgers University say this could be a bad sign for a man’s brain. Scientists have found that the influence of abdominal fat on brain health and cognition tends to be more pronounced among middle-aged ...

Being overweight or obese during early adulthood – between the ages of 18 and 40 – could be linked with up to 18 cancers, according to researchers at the World Health Organization‘s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The WHO researchers noted their findings in a cohort study of 2.6 million adults published in the Nature Communications, adding ...

Here’s some news that’s sure to wake you up: A new study suggests that your cup of joe does more than just energize you for the day – it could be causing your body to burn fat. Published in the journal Scientific Reports, the study, conducted by researchers at the University of Nottingham, in the UK, found that coffee actually ...

Women are catching up with men. But not in a good way. According to a 2006 study, it used to be that more men than women had metabolic syndrome—a dangerous cluster of risk factors that identify people at a high, long-term risk for narrowed arteries, cardiovascular disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease (PVD), and type 2 diabetes. But in recent years, ...

When it comes to heart attacks, a woman’s symptoms are subtler than a man’s. Whereas a man may have fierce chest pain, a woman may feel nauseated, tired, and out of sorts. It took us decades to discover the difference. Meanwhile, women may have had fewer heart attacks then men, but when they did have them, they were more likely ...

The average age of people suffering the most severe form of heart attack is getting younger – a worrisome finding in a new study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 65th Annual Scientific Session. The study, which looked at nearly 4,000 Cleveland Clinic patients from 1995 to 2014, found that the average age of those treated for ST-elevation myocardial ...

A new study found that men who eat fatty foods are more prone to daytime drowsiness. And among those who reported the highest-fat diets, nearly half said they are habitually tired throughout the average day. Researchers from the University of Adelaide studied the diets and lifestyles of 784 men between the ages of 35 and 80, controlling for things like ...