Obesity

In Part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Tim Garvey talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed at the 2016 AACE Meeting in Boston about clearing up the confusion and improving the guidelines in the treatment of obesity. Dr. Tim Garvey, MD, FACE is the professor and chair of …

What is the association between obesity and cardiovascular risks?

Does obesity increase or decrease death rate?

Is weight control possible in pregnant women?

The benefits of weight loss surgery for younger patients may persist for years.

Weight loss surgery helping in the reduction of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease sexual dysfunction -- even mortality rate.

A new weight loss device, AspireAssist, offers a novel approach to cutting calories: draining them from the stomach before they are fully digested. The AspireAssist® system consists of a thin tube implanted in the stomach, connecting to an outside port on the skin of the belly.

New guidelines cite effectiveness, cost efficiency, and safety as reasons to consider procedure.

A recent study published in Obesity in May 2016 reported very discouraging findings for a group of participants who had lost weight on “The Biggest Loser” (TBL) reality TV show: not only did almost all of them regain a significant amount of weight over the 6-year period following the show, but they also had lower resting metabolic rates than expected for their body weights, even six years later. With the way the media ran with this story, it will not be a surprise if everyone just gives up staying thinner and blames excess weight on a faulty, and unchangeable, metabolism.

In study, 40 percent of adults with type 2 diabetes achieved a fasting glucose level of less than 126mg/dL.(7mmol/L) after eight weeks on a very low-calorie diet.