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Diabetes Patients Taking Exenatide See Improvements In Glycemic, Weight Control

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly and Company, and Alkermes announced results from a 52-week open-label clinical study that showed the durable efficacy of exenatide once weekly, a long-acting release formulation of exenatide. Patients taking exenatide once weekly over the course of one year sustained a similar improvement in glucose control [A1C: -2.0%+/-0.08; fasting plasma glucose (FPG) [...]

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Miami Institute Launches New Weight Loss Program

Dr. Juan Remos of The Miami Institute for Age Management and Intervention, is launching a new physician-supervised weight management program focusing on losing weight quickly and safely as well as successfully maintain long-term results. A unique and comprehensive custom-tailored program of nutritional guidelines/dietary balance, exercise, supplements and stress reduction, the program helps to better control [...]

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Lose Weight With Big Breakfast Diet

‘Big breakfast’ diet is surprisingly found to be a right way for losing weight. The diet comes from Dr. Jakubowicz of Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been recommending the ‘big breakfast’ diet for over 15 years and the results are impressing. Dr. Jakubowicz suggests that traditional low-carb diet boosts appetite and slows metabolism down, so [...]

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Short-Term Weight Loss Program Works Long-Term

Researchers from the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston have shown for the first time that patients with diabetes who enrolled in a short-term weight management program were able to maintain the weight loss they achieved during the program on their own long-term. A study presented today at the American Diabetes Association’s 68th Scientific Sessions showed [...]

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Weight Loss Plays Key Role In Diabetes Improvement

Stomach-reduction surgery is excellent treatment for severe diabetes, but doctors at Duke University Medical Center caution that it is not a magic bullet. Their research, presented today at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, shows weight loss is a major reason why severely obese type 2 diabetics experience disease improvement or remission following [...]

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Weight Loss Slows On Weekends

Saturday can be the worst enemy for our waistlines and those who exercise for weight loss, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. They found that study subjects on strict diet and exercise programs tend to lose weight more slowly than expected because they eat more on weekends than during [...]

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Employer-Based Weight Loss Programs Are Helpful

A little shove from the workplace may actually be the ticket to weight loss, a new review of studies from US show. According to Michael Benedict, MD, and colleagues at UC, employer-based programs for weight loss are modestly effective at helping workers take off extra pounds. â€œWorksite-based programs do tend to result in weight loss [...]

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Does This Make Me Look Fat? Teens and Weight Concerns

New study says peers are at the heart of teen weight concerns. The peer groups teenage girls identify with determine how they decide to control their own figure. So reports a new study (1) by Dr. Eleanor Mackey from the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC, and her colleague Dr. Annette La Greca from [...]

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Weight Watchers Vs. Fitness Centers: Which Works Best

In the first study of its kind, using sophisticated methods to measure body composition, the nationally known commercial weight loss program, Weight Watchers, was compared to gym membership programs to find out which method wins in the game of good health. A University of Missouri researcher examined the real-life experiences of participants to determine which [...]

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On-The-Job Weight Loss: Worksite Programs Work

Employer-sponsored programs for weight loss are at least partially effective at helping workers take off extra pounds, according to a new review of recent studies. â€œFor people who participate in them, worksite-based programs do tend to result in weight loss,â€ said co-author Michael Benedict, M.D. Intensity matters, he found. â€œThe programs that incorporated face-to-face contact [...]

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