Obesity: ‘Switch’ in brain controls weight gain

A new study suggests that excess weight gain may be due to a faulty ‘switch’ in the brain, which promotes the retention of fat in the body.

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Clinically severe obesity is a debilitating disease that takes hundreds of thousands of lives each year, thus demands consistently safe and successful interventions with sustainable life-long outcomes. The ultimate test for any weight-loss intervention is its durability, across a range of clinically severe body mass indices (BMI), co-morbidity profiles and time. This issue is of […]

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Emotion Perception and Theory of Mind in Obesity: A Systematic Review on the Impact of Social Cognitive Deficits on Dysfunctional Eating Behaviors. October 19, 2020

Obesity is a serious public health problem worldwide, where behavioral, genetic, and environmental factors are in play [1]. It is associated with reduced life expectancy, morbidity, and mortality due to metabolic comorbidities and cancer, as well as stigma and increased health concerns [2].

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Differences in the effects of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass on gut hormones: systematic and meta-analysis October 18, 2020

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