Lorrie Hendry, host of ABC’s “Fat March,” a show in which a group of people trying to lose a lot of weight walk across the country dispels health myths and reaffirms the facts, so we can all be on our way to healthier versions of ourselves. Knowing the facts and fictions can help you lose […]
Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series. Doctors call childhood obesity an epidemic. But beneath the statistics and scientific studies are girls like Isabel Hernandez, a 14-year-old from Katy who likes to paint her nails and collect snow globes, who has a MySpace page but still sleeps with a nightlight. The summer […]
“Is fat contagious?” This caption blared out on the front page of the July 26 Seattle P-I. A report in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded yes. If your spouse is obese, there is a 37 percent risk that you, also, will become obese. Moreover, this was no snap judgment but a result of […]
TELEVISION advertisements featuring the weight-loss drug Xenical were back on air last night eight months after they were cancelled for pushing inappropriate or excessive use of the medication.
But the move has angered some experts who say the drug is still being targeted at body conscious teenagers.
Roche, the maker of Xenical, booked airtime for the drug’s […]
Alli, GlaxoSmithKline’s over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss drug, generated sales of £76m in the second quarter of the year.
The drug was approved as an OTC treatment in the US in February, becoming the first ever weight-loss drug to gain that status.
It was launched in May in the US, where around 65% of the population is obese or […]
Shawn Garber, MD, Chief of Bariatric Surgery at Mercy, is one of the first five surgeons in the United States to learn the StomaphyX(tm) procedure for endoluminal gastric pouch reduction in patients with previous gastric bypass surgery.
The procedure was performed on July 18 on five patients who underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass in 2003 and had […]
Star Jones Reynolds says she’s written a story for Glamour magazine that will address speculation about her dramatic weight loss.
“I wrote an article because I really wanted to go as in-depth as possible about the way I’ve changed physically over the last 10 years on the air,” Reynolds, 45, said recently while promoting her […]
Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers filed a lawsuit Friday accusing an Oregon weight loss franchise of fraud.
The suit says LA Weight Loss misled customers about the program’s costs, fees, products and benefits.
For example, the company advertised that the weight-loss program cost $9 a week but later required consumers to pay hundreds of dollars for the […]
A new study of published literature that reported the effect of dietary counseling for weight loss finds that, on average, dietary counseling has resulted in weight loss of approximately 6 percent of initial body weight (approximately 10-15 pounds) after one year, compared with people not involved in formal weight loss programs.
The authors analyzed 46 trials […]
WASHINGTON — An old ulcer operation is getting new attention as a possible alternative obesity surgery: a quick snip of a nerve that helps control hunger.
It’s far from clear if cutting the vagus nerve really helps _ initial pilot studies in a few dozen patients have just begun. Skeptics abound, and even proponents say it […]