Mice on a high-fat diet supplemented with 0.3% decaffeinated green coffee bean extract for 11 weeks did not gain weight, and 0.9% was no more potent. The authors put 0.3% at about 1,460 mg a day for a 60-kg person — ten times the chlorogenic acid of dark roasted coffee.
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Obesity
Premeal water drinking - cheapest weight loss treatment
In a 12-week trial of 300 adults funded by the American Beverage Association, diet soda drinkers lost 13 pounds and those barred from it nine; both groups got intensive coaching. The piece notes neither drink itself promotes weight loss and cites doubts about long-term sweetener use.
Obesity
Is Actiponin or Gynostemma pentaphyllum extract the next obesity treatment?
In a 12-week randomized trial of 80 overweight Korean adults, those taking 450 mg a day of actiponin from heat-processed Gynostemma pentaphyllum extract saw significant drops in abdominal fat area, body weight, fat mass and BMI, with no clinically significant side effects.
Obesity
Hydroxycitric acid, Garcinia cambogia effective and safe for weight loss
A World Journal of Gastroenterology commentary by Clouatre and Preuss argues that hydroxycitric acid, found in the weight-loss supplement Garcinia cambogia, does not promote inflammation or liver toxicity. An editor's note urges caution about sellers' third-party testing claims.
Obesity
Katie Couric-narrated Documentary Fed Up Exposes Causes of US Obesity
The documentary Fed Up, directed by Stephanie Soechtig and narrated by Katie Couric, argues that federal deference to the food industry — from the fight over the 1977 McGovern Report to pressure on WHO in 2006 — pushed low-fat, sugar-heavy products and worsened youth obesity.
Obesity
Raspberry ketone new weight loss dietary supplement
Rodents fed a high-fat diet with raspberry ketone gained less weight in the body, liver and visceral fat, and the compound increased norepinephrine-induced lipolysis in fat cells. The study tested prevention of weight gain, not weight loss.
Obesity
Information Technology, Social Support Help Weight Loss
MU researcher Cheryl Shigaki found information technology such as smartphone apps helps dieters fold healthy changes into daily life by repackaging traditional strategies as exercise logs and nutrition databases. Social and informational support still matter to success, she says.
Obesity
Weight loss supplement synephrine does not increase blood pressure
In a crossover trial of 10 healthy adults, the multi-ingredient supplement Xenadrine EFX raised systolic and diastolic blood pressure while Advantra Z, carrying eight times more synephrine, did not. The authors attribute the effect to caffeine and other stimulants.
Obesity
Dietary supplements enlisted to fight obesity
A bare list of supplements and other approaches used against obesity, from caffeine, ephedrine, green tea catechins and conjugated linoleic acid to chitosan and chromium picolinate, alongside non-supplement methods such as jaw wiring, hypnosis and acupuncture.
Obesity
Here are some reasons why curcumin prevents obesity
A Biofactors review by P. G. Bradford argues curcumin may help prevent obesity by damping the chronic low-grade inflammation that comes with it, acting on white fat cells, NF-kB and TNF-alpha while inducing adiponectin. He cites six grams a day taken long term without adverse effects.
Obesity
Obesity boosts breast cancer risk
In a study of 270 breast cancer cases and 540 matched controls, postmenopausal women with four or more metabolic risk factors faced 136% higher breast cancer risk. Obesity was the most influential single factor, tied to a 124% increase.
Obesity
Check out how gymnast loses fat, body weight
A British Journal of Sports Medicine case study details the six-week plan built for an injured elite male gymnast: 2 g of protein per kg body mass, 1,000 mg calcium from low-fat dairy, omega-3s from seeds and a supplement, low-GI carbs, and creatine and branched-chain amino acids to hold lean mass.
Obesity
Harvard Researchers Address Obesity and Toxic Food
Built around a Huffington Post video panel on the toxic food environment, the piece cites the American Heart Association's finding that 5 percent of American children are severely obese, an estimated 110,000 obesity-related U.S. deaths a year, and the AMA's vote to classify obesity a disease.
Obesity
Losing Weight Improves Memory
Twenty overweight postmenopausal women who lost an average of 6.4 pounds over a six-month diet showed improved memory performance and brain activity, according to findings presented at The Endocrine Society's annual meeting.
Obesity
Obesity—One Third of All Cancers are Directly Related to It
Writing about the documentary Killer at Large, Mercola cites CDC estimates that obesity kills about 110,000 Americans a year and that roughly a third of all cancers are directly related to it. Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, and childhood obesity has tripled in 30 years.
Diet
High fat diet linked to obesity
Chinese researchers fed 40 young male rats a common or high-fat diet for 16 weeks. All three high-fat diets raised body weight significantly, but rats given equal amounts of omega-3 and omega-6 fats kept insulin sensitivity close to controls and had lower pro-inflammatory cytokines.
Obesity
Clinical study with NuShape - one of the first to document sustainable weight loss with a dietary supplement (PR)
NuSirt Sciences said it would present four studies at Experimental Biology 2013, including two 24-week placebo-controlled trials of NuShape, its leucine and vitamin B6 supplement, in 44 mildly obese people. With calorie restriction, it reports 50 to 80 percent more weight and fat loss.
Obesity
Inadequate diet leads to obesity - opinion
T. Colin Campbell argues a plant-based diet prevents obesity without calorie counting, pointing to older Chinese diets. Shanghai researcher Zhao Liping ties endotoxin-producing gut bacteria to inflammation, obesity and diabetes, and says he lost about 45 pounds over two years eating that way.
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