HealthyWage announced a Paleo-focused weight-loss wagering challenge with Paleo Diet founder Loren Cordain, opening September 14, 2015. It also said Anastasia Woods of Seattle won a $10,000 prize for losing 41 pounds over an 18-month wager.
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Obesity
Intentional weight loss lowers death risk
A meta-analysis of 15 randomized trials with 17,186 participants found intentional weight loss, averaging 5.5 kg, was tied to a 15 percent lower risk of death from any cause. Similar results held among people aged 55 and older followed four years or more.
Obesity
Oxytocin helps weight loss
In fructose-fed obese rhesus monkeys, four weeks of oxytocin cut body weight by 3.3 percent, lowered 12-hour food intake by 16 to 27 percent depending on dose, raised energy expenditure 14 percent during the dark cycle and signaled more fat breakdown, without nausea or diarrhea.
Obesity
Drinking excess water does not help weight loss
Boston Children's Hospital researchers tested the common weight-loss advice to drink eight cups of water a day and found that increasing water intake had no effect on body weight in adolescents.
Obesity
Celastrol may be the most potent anti-obesity agent
In mice, celastrol, a compound from thunder god vine roots, suppressed food intake and produced 45% weight loss by restoring leptin sensitivity, and did nothing in mice lacking leptin or its receptor. The authors say clinical trials must still confirm efficacy and safety.
Obesity
Grapefruit juice stems weight gain in mice fed a high-fat diet, study finds
Mice on a high-fat diet gained 18 percent less weight when they drank clarified, no-pulp grapefruit juice instead of water, and showed better glucose, insulin and triacylglycerol levels, UC Berkeley researchers report in PLOS ONE. Grapefruit growers funded the work but had no say in it.
Obesity
Weight Loss Success: Lessons Learned from Studies of Successful Losers
Members of the National Weight Control Registry, most of whom have kept weight off more than five years, credit a changed lifestyle rather than a diet. Seventy-eight percent eat breakfast daily, 75 percent weigh themselves weekly, and they watch under 10 hours of television a week.
Obesity
Study confirms efficacy of Hoodia gordonii as weight loss supplement
Smith and Krygsman gave 12 lean and 12 obese male rats placebo or Hoodia gordonii extract at 80 or 160 mg per kg twice daily for 14 days. Every rat on the extract lost significant weight, but the researchers concluded the loss came from muscle as well as fat.
Obesity
Some weight loss supplements OxyELITE Pro linked to acute hepatitis
A letter to the editor in The American Journal of Gastroenterology reports the outbreak. The FDA had already alerted the public to the acute hepatitis cases and later issued a consumer update about the recall of the product.
Obesity
Some weight loss supplements commonly used in 2012
A 2011 Obesity Reviews review named caffeine, carnitine, green tea, conjugated linoleic acid, forskolin, chromium, kelp and fucoxanthin as the most commonly used fat burners, while other ingredients lacked convincing evidence. Diet and exercise still matter, the piece adds.
Obesity
N-3 helps weight loss
A French study found rats on a calorie-restricted diet supplemented with long-chain omega-3 fatty acids for 10 weeks lost more weight than rats given oleic or alpha-linolenic acid, with no effect on muscle weight. Evidence also suggests omega-3s improve insulin sensitivity.
Obesity
Rice koji fights obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus
Japanese researchers fed obesity-model mice white, yellow or red rice koji alongside a high-fat diet for four weeks. The koji groups gained less weight and carried less adipose tissue, and white and red koji lowered blood glucose. The authors say the mechanisms may differ by koji type.
Obesity
Chinese ginseng prevents obesity in mice fed high fat diet
Virginia Tech researchers report in the Journal of Medicinal Food that mice on a high-fat diet given Chinese ginseng gained less fat mass, handled glucose better and avoided hypertension. Ginseng also lowered plasma insulin and leptin and promoted lipid oxidation in the liver.
Obesity
3 Garcinia Cambogia Extract 1000mg Potassium Calcium 60% HCA Weight Loss Pure
A pillsco.com product listing for a three-bottle, 90-day supply of MaritzMayer Garcinia Cambogia extract capsules, with the seller's comments, product specifications and a description of hydroxycitric acid.
Obesity
Exercise-induced weight loss weakens bone strength
In a pilot study, 14 obese postmenopausal women who lost an average 3 kg over four months of endurance exercise showed a significant drop in bone strength. The authors say weight loss may weaken bone before changes in bone mineral density can be detected.
Obesity
Breaking news: Green coffee bean extract may help high blood pressure
A meta-analysis in the Journal of Human Hypertension found chlorogenic acid supplements lowered systolic blood pressure by 4.31 mmHg and diastolic by 3.68 mmHg, with no adverse events reported. Green coffee beans are rich in these acids.
Obesity
The diet helps Miss Arizona 2014 lose 40 lbs in 4 months
People magazine reported that Miss Arizona 2014 Jordan Wessel lost 40 pounds in four months eating protein waffles, chicken with salad or vegetables, and fruit or protein snacks. The piece notes the plan avoids processed food and sweets but does not suit everyone.
Obesity
Fucoxanthin for weight loss
Animal work found the seaweed carotenoid shrank white adipose tissue by promoting fat burning, and a 2009 trial pairing 2.4 mg of fucoxanthin with pomegranate seed oil reported 5 kg of weight loss over 16 weeks in obese premenopausal women with liver disease.
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