If your attention gets diverted in different directions by smartphones and other digital devices, take note: Media multitasking has now been linked to obesity.
Digital device overload linked to obesity risk
Let’s order lunch in!
Obesity
Want to Keep That Weight Off? (give up computers, video games, and television)
In the years following bariatric surgery, a person’s overall eating behaviors and the amount of time spent watching television, playing video games and using a computer for recreation are a better indication of long-term weight loss success than specific weight control practices like counting calories.
Reducing sedentary behavior; avoiding fast food; addressing problematic eating behaviors — including eating continuously, eating when full, loss of control and binge eating; and promoting self-weighing at least weekly were all behavioral targets the research team identified that patients should strive for and doctors should promote as part of post-surgical patient care.
Analysis identifies patients most at risk for weight regain after bariatric surgery
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Spectrum of Disorders — Podcast
Audio. Annals On Call – Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Spectrum of Disorders: Dr. Centor discusses nonalcoholic fatty Liver disease with Dr. Meagan Gray, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama.
New study shows dietary self-monitoring takes less than 15 minutes a day
Dietary self-monitoring is the best predictor of weight-loss success. But the practice is viewed as so unpleasant and time-consuming, many would-be weight-losers won’t adopt it. New research shows for the first time how little time it actually takes: 14.6 minutes per day on average. The frequency of monitoring, not the time spent on the process, was the key factor for those in the study who successfully lost weight.
I continuously self-monitor using estimates of calories in my head. I have used online resources in the past which were useful.
Read the source article at this link.
The Silent Pandemic
There are no quick-fix solutions, as obesity is not an external problem. It is an internal metabolic issue.
Dr. Rita Nawar Tobias
Interesting article on a weight care clinic in Dubai. This article is worth five minutes of your time.
Dr. Robert Lustig – The Sugar Pandemic – 2012 Presentation at Yale University
You think you know something until you start asking questions to seek the truth. Quite a few followers liked my post of Dr. Lustig’s TedX speech. Here are some videos of Dr. Lustig’s presentation at Yale in 2012 for those who want to dig a little deeper on the topic of sugar.
Treating obesity: One size does not fit all
Analyzing data from more than 2,400 obese patients who underwent bariatric weight-loss surgery, researchers identified at least four different patient subgroups that diverge significantly in eating behaviors and rate of diabetes, as well as weight loss in three years after surgery.
Read the source article here.
Daily Weighing may be Key to Losing Weight
Researchers identified several categories of self-weighing adults, from those that weighed themselves daily or almost daily to adults who never used at-home scales.
They found that people who never weighed themselves or only weighed once a week did not lose weight in the following year. Those that weighed themselves six to seven times a week had a significant weight loss (1.7 percent) in 12 months.
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Yes, I weigh myself almost every day.
Yes it’s been over 40 years since I lost 200 pounds.
Yes!
No consistent evidence of a disproportionately low resting energy expenditure in long-term successful weight-loss maintainers
ConclusionsWe found no consistent evidence of a significantly lower REE than predicted in a sample of long-term WLMs based on predictive equations developed from NCs and OCs as well as 3 standard predictive equations. Results suggest that sustained weight loss may not always result in a substantial, disproportionately low REE.
Full abstract can be found here.
I feel so much better now.
Colorectal Cancer Rising in the Obese Young
During the years 2002 to 2013 in national databases, the incidence of colorectal cancer increased in patients younger than age 50 at a rate of 1.5% per year, for an average 15% increase over the study period, according to Hisham Hussan, MD, of the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus.
Source article here.
Yikes.
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