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Supported Exercise Intervention Helps Black Women With Obesity Shed Weight

Pilot program cut HbA1c, boosted functional mobility, and fostered camaraderie

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Patients Hitting GLP-1 Plateaus? Here's How to Help

Set expectations up front, and explore alternative approaches when necessary

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Study: Skinny-Leg Runners Face Higher Rates of Knee Arthritis

Questions about risks from weight-bearing activities may now be settled

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What Do Weight-Loss Drugs Mean for Diet Industry Built on Eating Less and Exercise?

Gym and diet food companies look to muscle in

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Time-Restricted Eating Tied to Modest Weight Loss

Benefits appeared to come mainly from reduced caloric intake

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Shockwave Therapy Shows Benefit in Lower Limb Claudication

Sessions improved physical function and walking distance at 12 weeks

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Here's a Good Exercise Option for Hip OA

Program emphasizing balance and stability equals strength-directed training

Can Machine Learning Predict CVD Risk? Sleep-Related Benefits of Exercise

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Need 10,000 Daily Steps to Prevent Obesity? It May Depend on Genetics

Current recommendations may underestimate activity needs for people with high genetic risk

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Online Obesity Program Helped Primary Care Patients Lose Weight

Weight regain was less in the groups who participated in 9 months of active maintenance

Deaths Due to Alcohol Use; Steps for the Sedentary

Also in TTHealthWatch: microplastics in arteries, and worldwide obesity and diabetes risk

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10,000 Steps Lowers Death Risk; Obesity Drug Beats Wegovy; Lead in Cinnamon Warning

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FDA APPROVED Dexcom Stelo Glucose Biosensor System over a photo of the device.

FDA Clears First OTC Continuous Glucose Monitor

Dexcom's Stelo system available without a prescription by the summer

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Multimodal Pre-Op Program Aids Knee Replacement Candidates

Patients feel better as they wait for surgery; a few find they no longer need it

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Healthy Lifestyle Habits May Help Prevent New-Onset IBS

Adhering to even one healthy habit was significantly associated with lower incidence

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Exercise and COVID; Can Smells Help Depression? Car Crashes Into Hospital ED

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Long COVID Patients Saw Improvements After Group Rehab Program

More patients reported feeling "much better now" compared with usual care group

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Improved Fitness May Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk

Observational study finds reduced incidence in men who increased their cardiorespiratory fitness

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Adults Who Cite Walking Difficulty Face Higher Fracture Risk

Australian study suggests walking ability can help identify candidates for more assessment

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Sitting and Early Death; Dana-Farber Retracts Multiple Papers; Winter Weather Deaths

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Here Are the Top Diets for 2024

A familar food plan topped the annual U.S. News rankings

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This Program Helped Overweight RA Patients Shape Up

Metabolic markers, disease activity improved with remotely supervised lifestyle regimen

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Is Your Patient Married? Check Their Spouse's Blood Pressure, Too

Couple-centered strategies can help manage hypertension

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USPSTF Draft Calls for Lifestyle Shift -- Not Meds -- for Kids With Obesity

Behavioral interventions should be main approach; insufficient data to back pharmacologic therapy

FDA APPROVED tirzeptide (Zepbound) over a photo of a woman holding an injection pen.

Tirzepatide Wins FDA Approval for Weight Loss

Drug also gets a new brand name, Zepbound, for its new indication

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Want to Reduce Knee OA Risk? Weight Work May Help

History of strength training tied to reduced incidence later in life

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Virtual Obesity Treatment Program Led to Substantial Weight Loss in Real-World Study

At 12 months, there was an average weight loss of 16.2%, with results sustained up to 24 months

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Certain Factors Predict Weight Regain After Big Losses

But even "regainers" still kept off most of the weight

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Mental Health Warning Signs in Latinx Kids Tied to Cardiometabolic Risks

Signs of depression, anxiety in middle school linked with troubles by high school

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Reduced Mortality Seen in Cancer Survivors Who Meet Exercise Guidelines

Survivors classified as exercisers have 25% reduced risk of all-cause mortality, study shows

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Dementia Risk Tied to Sedentary Lifestyle

Ten hours or more a day of sedentary behavior raised risk of incident dementia

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Here's Another Racial-Ethnic Disparity in Back Pain Care

Nonwhite patients who overuse opioids are given nonpharmacologic alternatives less often

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Clinically Significant Weight Loss Uncommon for Most Overweight Adults

Only one in 10 with overweight or obesity achieve 5% or greater weight loss each year

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Should People Without Diabetes Use Glucose Monitors?

Trend boosted by health buffs on social media, but benefit for healthy adults is unclear

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Unexplained Heart Enlargement May Be Causing Sudden Deaths in Obesity

Increased ventricular mass without the usual etiologies of heart disease was noted

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Couch Potatoes Take Note: Climb Some Stairs to Cut Cancer Risk

Short bouts of vigorous activity may be a "promising" intervention for those who can't exercise

From HIIT Workout to Hair Apposition

"No supplies except for my hands"

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Medical Spending Higher for Kids Outside Healthy Weight Limits

Expenditures tied to underweight and obesity totaled $1 billion and $2.4 billion in 2018

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Americans With Heart Disease Less Likely to Use Wearable Devices

CVD patients may benefit from the devices, but use is lower than the general population

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'Practice Changing' Trial on Activity Recs After Prolapse Surgery

In randomized study, noninferior outcomes for expedited activity versus standard wait of 6 weeks

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