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Weight management is a challenge. Technology has led to a sedentary lifestyle; instead of physical activity, a large majority of Americans spend their time in front of a screen, lending to an unhealthy epidemic – obesity. A new study says that eating a good breakfast and not snacking throughout the day can lead to a healthier life and prevent weight gain.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 36.5% of adults and about 17% of children in the United States live with obesity. Obesity has been shown to increase the risk of developing serious conditions and diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes and even cancer.
As American waistlines expand, so does the cost of obesity – both for the government and the individuals. According to an article in Policito published in March 2017, “There are the direct medical costs of treating obesity-related diseases including Type-2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, arthritis, and related cancers, among others. And then there are the indirect costs: lost productivity, more illness, extra infrastructure to handle heavier patients and residents.” Gallup-Healthways Well-Being index reports that extra healthcare costs from obesity were $538 million in 2016, more than half of the budget of the city’s public school system.
The national costs are shocking. Professor at Emory University, Zhou Yang, who studies the impact of obesity on the medical system, has reported the obese older males spent $190,657 more on lifetime healthcare expenses than their normal weight peers; while older obese women spent $224,629 more.
A new study, conducted by Dr. Hana Kahleova from the Loma Linda University School of Public Health (LLUSPH) in California, has been published in The Journal of Nutrition. She collaborated with other researchers at LLUSPH and the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine and the Institute of Endocrinology for the study.
Researchers worked with participants from the Adventist Health Study-2, which monitors the lives of 96,000 Seventh-day Adventists from the U.S. and Canada. Researchers of the original study consider Adventist populations to be at a lower risk of developing conditions and diseases brought on by obesity, due to their specific eating habits.
Led by Dr. Kahleova, 50,660 adults (30 years old or older) were used in order to find possible link between when and how often people eat and their body mass index.
The study resulted in many findings. Firstly, individuals who ate only one or two meals per day had a decrease in BMI. Conversely, those who ate more than three meals a day increased their BMI. The more meals they ate, the greater the weight gain. Secondly, researchers found that those who had breakfast regularly tended to lose more weight than people who skipped breakfast.
The participants whose largest meal of the day was breakfast experienced a large BMI decrease, in contract to those who made lunch or dinner their largest meal.
Researchers also found that skipping dinner altogether and having a longer, overnight fast contributed to weight loss.
Also found in the study, participants younger than 60 tended to gain more weight, whereas those over 60 tended to experience a loss in BMI. “Before age 60 years, those eating calories earlier in the day had less weight gain,” says Professor Fraser. “Over decades, the total effect [of regularly eating a large breakfast] would be very important,” he adds.
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Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318448.php
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A majority of individuals are always looking for the next big weight loss fad. But what would you say to a new obesity treatment device that uses a surgically-placed tube to drain some of what you consumed after every meal? Well, the FDA says it’s safe and effective.
This new device is not for everyone; it is intended to assist weight loss in patients 22 and older with a body mass index of 35-55 that have failed to achieve and maintain weight-loss through non-surgical methods. Patients using this device will also have to be “regularly monitored by their healthcare provider and should follow a lifestyle program to help them develop healthier eating habits and reduce their calorie intake”, according to the FDA.
According to the FDA, surgeons will insert a tube into the patient’s stomach with an endoscope (a small camera) through an incision in the abdomen. A “disk-shaped port valve” will lie outside of the body but flush against the skin that is connected to the tube. About 30 minutes after each meal, the patient will have to attach the device’s external connector and tube to the port value, open the valve, and drain the contents of the stomach which takes approximately five to ten minutes and removes about 30 percent of the calories consumed.
The FDA does advise that patients must be frequently monitored by a healthcare provider to shorten the tube as they lose weight so that the disk can remain flush against the skin. The device also has a safety feature that keeps track of the number of times the drain tube is connected to the port. After 115 cycles (about 5-6 weeks), patients must return to their healthcare provider to get a replacement and continue the therapy. AspireAssist and the FDA says this safety feature “helps ensure patients use the device properly during therapy”.
In a clinical trial of 111 patients treated with AspireAssist and lifestyle therapy, patients lost an average of 12.1 percent of their total body weight over one year, compared to 60 patients who received only the lifestyle therapy and lost 3.6 percent of their total body weight in that same time period.
There are risks to using this device, however, including abdominal bloating, infection, sedation-related breathing problems, unintended puncture of the stomach or intestinal wall and death. Risks related to the opening for the port valve in the abdomen include leakage, bleeding and infection. AspireAssist and the FDA report those with uncontrolled hypertension, diagnosed bulimia or a binge-eating disorder (to name a few) should not use Aspire Assist.
For more information on additional risks, the FDA’s approval announcement and AspireAssist, please visit: http://www.aspirebariatrics.com/
