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“The research demonstrates human observers are often poor at estimating their own body size and the size of others. Crucially, body size judgments are not always accurate and can be biased by various factors. Sometimes it’s influenced just by the people we stand next to,” says Jason Bell from the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia.


American Psychological Association

Can You Truly See Yourself? It is likely that we have all experienced an optical illusion, but what about a psychological illusion? Research has found that we are bad at perceiving our own bodies. This means we can think we are either thinner or fatter than we really are!

Research published in the journal PLOS Biology provides evidence that it’s not the exercise itself that causes appetite suppression, it's the heat generated as a byproduct of the exercise.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
PLOS Biology

The Heat Generated During Exercise May Cause You To Eat Less When You're Finished New research suggests it's not the exercise that suppresses appetite, it's the heat generated as a byproduct of the exercise.

When obesity and depression begin in childhood, they tend to persist throughout life. Depressed youth may experience a cycle of overeating to try to make themselves feel better, followed by weight gain, ongoing depressed feelings and weight-related bullying that further worsens their depression.

American Academy of Pediatrics

Pediatric obesity, depression connected in the brain Early-life obesity and depression may be driven by shared abnormalities in brain regions that process rewards, according to researchers.

Research has suggested that consuming lots of artificial sweeteners scrambles the bacteria in our gut, causing them to make our bodies less tolerant to glucose, the main building-block of sugar.


American Diabetes Association

How artificial sweeteners are linked to diabetes and obesity Many countries have introduced a sugar tax to improve the health of their citizens. As a result, food and drink companies are changing their products to include low and zero-calorie sweeteners instead of sugar. However, there is growing evidence that sweeteners may have health consequences of their....

"So, this study suggests that patients with rheumatoid arthritis and obesity would benefit from intentional weight loss through a comprehensive management strategy; however, when we see that someone is losing weight without trying, it's probably a poor prognostic sign, especially if they are already thin." - Dr. Joshua Baker, a researcher at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS)

Obesity, weight loss linked to worse rheumatoid arthritis in study People with rheumatoid arthritis who are severely obese or were losing weight tend to see more rapid progress of the condition, according to a new study.

While society has long viewed obesity as a simple function of overeating, clinical evidence now points to a genetic role concerning appetite, metabolism, and the absorption of fat. The commonsense view is changing, and pharmaceutical firms can step in to offer solutions.

American Medical Association (AMA)
GBI Research

Can pharma address the growing problem of obesity? Obesity is a huge problem in the developed world, and it’s getting bigger.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), people with a body mass index (BMI)

This study shows how a small change, such as going to bed a little earlier, can help us feel better for weight maintenance and for our overall well-being, Dr. Heinberg says.

Cleveland Clinic
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

How More Sleep Can Lead to Better Food Choices Why seven to nine hours of sleep each night can help

The greater the weight loss, the more likely it is that the person who lost the weight will change civil status one way or the other, according to the study, which was published in JAMA Surgery.

JAMA Surgery

More breakups, but also new relationships after weight loss surgery What happens to relationships when one partner loses a lot of weight, eats much less and becomes more active?

Four out of five experts said yes; here are their detailed responses.

American Council on Exercise - ACE

Are You Getting Enough Exercise if All You Do Is Walk? Experts Respond We humans need to exercise in order to stay healthy. Exercise protects against disease and early death, and keeps us mobile and able to perform daily tasks.

When obesity and depression begin in childhood, they tend to persist throughout life. Depressed youth may experience a cycle of overeating to try to make themselves feel better, followed by weight gain, ongoing depressed feelings and weight-related bullying that further worsens their depression.

Hormones and Behavior (journal)
Stanford Medicine

Pediatric obesity, depression connected in the brain Early-life obesity and depression may be driven by shared abnormalities in brain regions that process rewards, according to researchers.

Childhood obesity like many major health problems is a systems problem, the manifestation of broken social, environmental, economic, policy, and other systems. For its Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) initiative, Kaiser Permanente ventured out into the community to try to make some changes, and 11 studies just published in a special supplement of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed how that decade-long effort went.

Healthy Eating Active Living
Community Health Initiative

Kaiser Permanente Shows How To Start Tackling The Childhood Obesity Epidemic For its Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) initiative, Kaiser Permanente ventured out into the community to try to make some changes, and 11 studies just published in a special supplement of the journal American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed how that decade-long effort went.

Researchers fed groups of rats diets high in sugar or artificial sweeteners including aspartame and acesulfame potassium. After three weeks, blood samples showed significant differences in concentrations of biochemicals, fats and amino acids.

Experimental Biology 2018
Nature (journal)

Artificial sweeteners can still lead to obesity and diabetes, study claims