Obesity

Early initiation of therapy hoped to reduce long-term morbidity, mortality by getting to goal earlier; potentially alter the natural history of the disease.

The use of a high protein diet instead of a high carbohydrate diet to help reverse the progression to diabetes.

Sucralose may adversely affect glucose metabolism.

Two products approved by FDA will be available in 2017.

New study finds that when you lose weight, you will consume more calories than necessary to maintain the lower weight.

One type of belly fat may be more risky, according to results from an imaging-based study.

Male, 21 years of age has class III obesity, binge eating disorder, fatty liver, and asthma, and was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It is his freshman year at a college away from home. He eats in the cafeteria, and has no refrigerator or stove in his room. He visits today after not taking metformin or GLP-1 agonist since at starting school. He is under a lot of stress and states the food at school is terrible, unhealthy, and not diabetes-friendly at all. Note, he has been taught a lower carb meal plan. He says he is not taking Glucophage or Victoza; each of them at low doses gives him terrible diarrhea. He states he checks his glucose twice a week, with fastings in the 90-100 range. He is up 10 pounds since our last visit in September.

Study also finds reduced heart rate variability (HRV) in overweight patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2D) and stable coronary artery disease (CAD).

I work in obesity medicine. As many of us know, losing weight isn't the problem for most, but weight regain is. As the saying goes for many, you can't be rich enough or thin enough. Many of our patients come in with unrealistic goals regarding their weight loss, and don't give themselves enough credit for the weight they have lost. Many, for many reasons, regain.

Every minute of high intensity physical activity counts in the war against weight gain.