Losing weight too quickly can be unhealthy and may jeopardize your chances of long-term success. Following fad diets may even have potentially risky side effects such as gallstones. Learn why losing weight slowly is best.
Making health and fitness resolutions can be a good thing, but if you want to stick to them and achieve your healthy weight goals, it pays to follow this advice and set realistic goals when it comes to weight loss.
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A medication approved to treat type 2 diabetes may help people with obesity lose 10 to 15 percent of their body weight an amount that healthcare professionals say could help reduce the risk for serious chronic illnesses.
Semaglutide, sold under the brand names Ozempic and Rybelsus, helped most people with obesity in a clinical trial lose at least 10 percent of their body weight, and more than half of them reduced their weight by at least 15 percent, according to the study results, which were published in February 2021 in the
The study focused on a once-weekly injection of semaglutide at a higher dose than is approved for treatment of type 2 diabetes. The drug’s manufacturer, Novo Nordisk, is now seeking approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to sell a weekly injected version of the medication as a weight loss aid.
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If your weight loss efforts have stalled on the Mediterranean diet, you may have an easier time shedding those excess pounds by going vegan and cutting out all animal products instead of continuing to eat lean poultry and fish.
Journal of the American College of Nutrition, people who followed a low-fat vegan diet lost an average of 6.0 kilograms (13.2 pounds) over 16 weeks. But when these same people followed a Mediterranean diet for the same amount of time, they typically didn’t lose weight.
“Because the Mediterranean diet is often touted for weight loss, it was surprising to see that participants experienced very small changes if any at all when it came to their weight on this diet,” says the study s senior author, Hana Kahleova, MD, PhD, the director of clinical research at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, DC.