Weight management/Obesity News

Turn to web to keep weight off

Worried about whether the weight you just lost will stay lost? Seeking out the right Web site might help, a new study suggests.

Weight loss may curb urine leakage

Overweight women with bladder-control problems can often improve those symptoms if they lose even a modest amount of weight, a new study suggests

Obesity, chronic pain linked

Obesity and chronic pain are both linked with family history and mood disorders, a new study suggests.

Obese kids feet fatter and flatter

It's known that obese children tend to have "flatter" feet than their normal-weight peers, but it has been unclear whether that reflects a potential problem.

Overweight don't eat more

Overweight people may respond more to a piping hot pizza, but they don't necessarily eat more of it in a single sitting, according to a new study.

No-shame programs appeal to obese

Obese people prefer lifestyle change programs to help them shed excess pounds, rather than strategies that focus only on weight loss, a new study finds.

US advisers reject Vivus pill

US health advisers narrowly rejected Vivus Inc's experimental weight-loss pill, saying there was not enough data to merit approval.

Rapid weight loss better than slow

Losing a lot of weight at once is the best way to permanently slim down, studies have shown. Although researchers say it is still best to follow a long-term eating plan.

New diet pill risk-free?

An experimental diet pill helped about half the people who tried it lose some weight and keep it off a year later, without the heart problems that some drugs caused, a study found.

Tough love=bad obese intervention

Obese people support lifestyle-change interventions, rather than those that purely promote weight loss.