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Why Most People Regain Weight After Dieting — and What Actually Stops It
If you’ve ever lost weight only to see it creep back on, know this: you’re not failing at anything unusual. In fact, researchers have found that weight regain is so common it’s practically the expected outcome of most weight loss…
Can there be an excess of less?
Just today, a journalist in the Boston Globe wrote about achieving her goal weight with Zepbound — at the cost of $449 monthly to maintain, plus nausea, fatigue, and hair loss. And the most-commented article in the New York Times…
10 Alternatives to Stress Eating
Stressful feelings are all part of life — that we all experience. Yet they trigger a release of adrenaline and cortisol — our body’s natural stress hormones. Aside from getting us ready to fight or flee, these hormones temporarily raise blood sugar levels, which, over time, may lead to greater hunger. Chronic stress can also interfere with digestion, sleep, and immune function. And stressful thoughts interfere with the more creative, resourceful, and logical parts of your brain that can help you problem-solve.
Summary: Want to Lose Weight? What You Need to Know about Eating and Exercise
What you eat is more important than how much you exercise. Exercise is not the most important thing to focus on when you want to lose weight — although it has numerous other health benefits, including maintaining a healthy weight. As Dr. Roberts’ lab has proved, what you eat and how much you eat play a substantially greater role in determining whether you shed kilograms. But her research has gone much deeper, showing that different people lose weight more effectively with different foods. This realization allows us to create personalized weight-loss plans for individuals that work better than any one-size-fits-all advice.
Recent science updates
Did you know your intestinal microbiome and your immune system are tightly linked? Your microbiota are vital for extracting nutrition from your food, maintaining your metabolism, boosting pathogen resistance and immune function, and keeping your intestinal walls healthy. It’s health varies with your diet, lifestyle and environment. Greater nutritional diversity and more fiber leads to a healthier microbiome, which can help you stay healthy.
Are you eating your veggies?
The colon cancer death of Chadwick Boseman, a famous young actor this week is a reminder that cancer screenings and a good lifestyle are important, no matter how healthy you may feel. Currently in the USA, only 5% of people get adequate fiber, only 10% eat the minimum recommended amount of fruits and vegetables, and only 23% exercise enough to meet basic health recommendations.
Dr. Roberts Lecture: Weight loss that works without gimmicks
Weight loss without gimmicks, or Weight loss that works! Obesity today is a problem that’s completely out of our control. This is a lightly edited transcript of the talk that Dr. Roberts gave in Boston at the Human Nutrition Center…
Why your fitness tracker may not be your friend
A large-scale weight loss study, just published in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, raises questions about how fitness trackers influence weight loss and eating behavior. It found that over a 24 month period, people who did NOT…
The science of weight loss
Whether your metabolism is slow or fast, you can lose weight if you know what to do. People often talk about the speed of their metabolism, but do you know what “metabolism” really means? Metabolism Explained About 70% of the…
Biggest Losers are not Best Losers
Recent media coverage of a new study of contestants on NBC’s reality television show The Biggest Loser, published in the journal Obesity, raises serious concerns about drawing conclusions from a single study of 14 individuals, no matter how dramatic the…