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You Don't Need To Lose A Lot Of Weight To Start Seeing Health Benefits
This study clarifies conventional wisdom among obesity experts, who have traditionally advised patients to lose 5 to 10 percent of their body weight in order to improve blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels. But as anyone who has ever tried to lose weight can attest, there is a big difference between 5 percent and 10 percent.   "That’s a very vague, wide range," Klein said. "It’s much harder to achieve a 10 percent weight loss than it is to achieve a five percent weight loss." Klein said his study shows that even just a little bit of weight loss is enough to improve health, and that peopl...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 23, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Visceral Fat Triggers Heart Disease
I tell my patients to avoid drinking soda not just because they make you fat. Each sip of soda affects your health. Soda puts you at risk for health problems like metabolic syndrome. This is a collection of symptoms that can lead to diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases, like cancer. Soft drinks are the beverage of choice for millions of Americans. The latest research now reveals that sodas are a major cause of visceral fat — the deadliest kind of fat you can have, inflaming your tissues, rotting your blood vessels and upsetting your body chemistry. In a minute I’m going to tell you about a great healthy ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - February 29, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Heart Health heart disease metabolic syndrome Visceral Fat Source Type: news

Evolution of Pharmacological Obesity Treatments: Focus on Adverse Side‐Effect Profiles
ABSTRACT Pharmacotherapy directed toward reducing body weight may provide benefits for both curbing obesity and lowering the risk of obesity‐associated co‐morbidities. However, many weight loss medications have been withdrawn from the market due to serious adverse effects. Examples include pulmonary hypertension (aminorex), cardiovascular toxicity, e.g. flenfluramine‐induced valvopathy, stroke (phenylpropanolamine), excess non‐fatal cardiovascular events (sibutramine), and neuro‐psychiatric issues (rimonabant ‐ approved in Europe, but not in the US). This negative experience has helped mold the current drug dev...
Source: Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism - March 1, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Andrew J. Krentz, Ken Fujioka, Marcus Hompesch Tags: REVIEW ARTICLE Source Type: research

Further evidence to support weight loss and lifestyle interventions for people taking antipsychotic medications
Increasing weight is the leading risk factor for many life-shortening illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes.1 Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) such as schizophrenia are at increased risk of medical comorbidities, including metabolic syndrome, leading to an increased risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. As a result, life expectancy is shorter than those in the general population.2 The elevated cardiometabolic risks can be due to inadequate nutrition, limited access to medical care, sedentary lifestyle, smoking a...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Diet drug Contrave kicks up a tempest amid uncertainty about heart attack and stroke effects
Researchers have a gentle warning for patients on the receiving end of 765,000 prescriptions for the weight-loss drug Contrave: The cardiovascular safety of this treatment "remains uncertain," they write in a newly published study. As for claims by the drug's maker that it dramatically drives down...
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - March 8, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Healy Source Type: news

Protein Series Part II: Strategic Timing
Conclusions often state there isn't much difference as long as total intake reaches a specific threshold. However, that doesn't necessarily show the best method(s) for performance, growth, recovery, or even weight-loss goals. And, by Knockout, It's... Metabolic Contextualism? Don't steal that term -- I'm going to create a philosophy or religion around it, right next to Absurdism or Existentialism. Studies show that even 10 grams of protein is sufficient to create an anabolic upturn in potential recovery, but 20 to 40 grams of protein maximizes this threshold. Counter opinions are largely contextual. If I just crushed 600 c...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Endovascular Therapy for Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia
Opinion statement Chronic mesenteric ischemia (CMI) most commonly occurs as a consequence of multivessel atherosclerotic disease of the mesenteric vasculature. Risk factors include smoking, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and advanced age, and women are more commonly affected than men. The clinical presentation of CMI is characterized by postprandial abdominal pain and weight loss. Left untreated, patients often develop severe malnutrition. Current consensus guidelines recommend secondary prevention medications such as statins and aspirin for all patients with known atherosclerosis to reduce the risk of stroke and MI...
Source: Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine - April 14, 2016 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

Spinal cord and cranial Bing-Neel Syndrome complicated by cerebral ischemia: A case report
Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM) is a B-cell malignancy characterized by lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) within the bone marrow and an IgM monoclonal gammopathy in the blood. Symptoms may include weakness or fatigue, anorexia and weight loss, bleeding from the gums and nose, headache, blurred vision, peripheral neuropathy, and even stroke from hyperviscosity. The direct infiltration of the central nervous system (CNS), either as a diffuse leptomeningeal form or tumoral form is an exceedingly rare complication of WM, recognized as Bing-Neel Syndrome (BNS) [1].
Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences - April 24, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Alejandro Vargas, Karan S. Dixit, John G. Quigley, Fernando D. Testai Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

The effects of weight loss after sleeve gastrectomy on left ventricular systolic function in men versus women
ConclusionsSleeve gastrectomy improves LV systolic function and contributes to reverse LV remodeling in both genders. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2016
Source: Journal of Clinical Ultrasound - April 27, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Tuğba Kemaloğlu Öz, Şennur Ünal Dayı, Hakan Seyit, Ayhan Öz, Altuğ Ösken, Işıl Atasoy, Ufuk Yıldız, Fatma Özpamuk Karadeniz, Göktürk İpek, Osman Köneş, Halil Alış Tags: Research Article Source Type: research

Obesity in the U.S. and Europe on the Rise: A Comparison
Levels of obesity in adults and children are rising worldwide. The World Health Organization calls the rising level "an epidemic" citing sugary drinks and processed foods as the main culprits, along with an urban sedentary lifestyle. A study published in The Lancet named "Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013" stated obesity issues "were estimated to have caused 3.4 million deaths globally, most of which were from cardiovascular causes. Research indicates that if left unaddressed, the ri...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Enteral feeding in neurological disorders.
Abstract Malnutrition and weight loss, due to suboptimal oral intake, are common in patients with neurological disorders and are associated with increased morbidity, disability and mortality. The nutritional management of neurological patients is crucial, and enteral feeding is commonly used to provide nutritional support. This review presents the different methods of enteral tube feeding and discusses its practice and efficacy in terms of clinical outcomes in the context of motor neurone disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, and stroke. PMID: 27152026 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Practical Neurology - May 4, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Stavroulakis T, McDermott CJ Tags: Pract Neurol Source Type: research

May 13 Cardiology NewsMay 13 Cardiology News
Weight loss and AF, rotor mapping in AF ablation, repeat AF ablation as a routine strategy, stroke in patients in AF on anticoagulants, and loperamide cardiotoxicity are discussed this week. theheart.org on Medscape
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - May 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news

Pharmacologic Approaches to Weight Management: Recent Gains and Shortfalls in Combating Obesity
This article reviews recent literature in the field of Obesity Medicine and highlights important findings from clinical trials. Future directions in the pharmacologic management of obesity are presented along with new diabetes medications that promote weight loss and reduce cardiovascular mortality.
Source: Current Atherosclerosis Reports - May 14, 2016 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

Clinical Reasoning: Myriad manifestations of a global infectious disease
A 21-year-old right-handed Cambodian woman with no history of headache presented with 2 weeks of progressive bifrontal headache. She had no sick contacts or recent travel. She moved to the United States at age 3 years. She had no fever, nuchal rigidity, photophobia, phonophobia, nausea, or vomiting. She had a recent history of weight loss and palpitations. There was no tobacco or illicit drug use or high-risk sexual behavior. She was not pregnant and denied contraception use.
Source: Neurology - June 5, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Prabhu, A. M., Raghupathi, R., Dissin, J. Tags: Stroke in young adults, Vasculitis, Meningitis RESIDENT AND FELLOW SECTION Source Type: research

Study Reveals That Eating 'In Moderation' Is A Fool's Errand
"Everything in moderation" is a common piece of healthy eating advice from slim and sexy celebs, dietitians and other lifestyle gurus. It's a call that's thousands of years old: The ancient Greek poet Hesiod wrote the phrase “moderation is best in all things” in his poem Work and Days, written around 700 BCE, and other philosophers and writers have echoed the maxim ever since.  But just because it’s a saying that has persisted throughout history doesn’t mean it’s right, helpful or useful.  While it sounds like wise advice for anyone who wants a low-key approach to healthy eating...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 9, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news