Posts Tagged ‘complications of obesity’

Lifting Food Noise Out of Pop Diet Chatter

July 9, 2025 — A new review in Nutrition & Diabetes marks an effort to get serious about lifting an important concept – food noise – out of the realm of inane pop diet chatter. Emily Dhurandhar and colleagues take care in defining food noise: “The formal definition of food noise is persistent thoughts about food that are perceived […]

Obesity Science Fuels a Race for Advances in MASH Therapy

July 1, 2025 — A dramatic race is progressing quietly and out of view for most of us. It is the race toward better therapy for the liver disease doctors know as MASH (metabolic associated steatohepatitis), which has close ties to obesity. And likewise because of advances in obesity science, progress in treating MASH is advancing with blinding speed […]

A Big Advance in Heart Failure Outcomes with Tirzepatide

November 17, 2024 — By 38%, Tirzepatide cuts the risk of bad outcomes in persons with obesity and an increasingly common form of heart failure that obesity causes. The diagnosis is heart failure with preserved ejection fraction or HFpEF. The measure of bad outcomes it prevents was a composite worsening heart failure or death from cardiovascular disease. Worsening heart […]

The Ongoing Rise in Diabetes, Mirroring Obesity Trends

November 8, 2024 — Amid a steady stream of news from ObesityWeek, the CDC released new NHANES data this week documenting an ongoing rise in U.S. diabetes prevalence. Between 1999 and 2023, the age-adjusted prevalence of diabetes, diagnosed and undiagnosed, in adults rose from 9.7% to 14.3%. The total prevalence in adults between 2021 and 2023 was 15.8% – […]

Mandisa: A Rare Example of Obesity Noted as a Cause of Death

June 7, 2024 — Mandisa Lynn Hundley was an American gospel and contemporary Christian recording artist. Known simply as Mandisa, her death on April 18 this year at the age of 47 was due to complications of class 3 obesity. Though obesity is quite common and its complications are frequent causes of death, Mandisa is a rare example of […]

Questions About Obesity, Surgery, and Colorectal Cancer

February 9, 2020 — If you want an example of extremely unhelpful health reporting, look no further than two reports this week on obesity, surgery, and colorectal cancer. Two different studies. Precisely opposite findings on a difficult subject. Very little perspective. Taken at face value, one can only conclude that surgery might add to the risk of colorectal cancer […]